Where is the play endgame by samuel beckett set?

Answer 1

Setting and situation suggests an underground bomb shelter, possibly after the occurrence of a nuclear holocaust

Answer 2

Well, unless you want to incur the wrath of Beckett's ghost, you had better follow his VERY detailed stage directions to the letter. This is an absolutely brilliant piece of dramatic literature, and one of its greatest strengths is the UN-specific nature of the setting. If you just follow Beckett's instructions, the play has all kinds of universal resonances, and gives each individual member of the audience the opportunity to "fill in the blanks" themselves.

Several years ago, there was a much bally-hooed production of "Endgame" in New York, set in what was very obviously a post-apocalyptic NYC subway station. Beckett actually SUED to have the production shut down. He was unsuccessful, and you can still find production stills from that show. The point is: the play can be about so MANY things...choosing a more specific setting than that which was so carefully scripted by Beckett only limits it.

Answer 3

Beckett usually doesn't give real or specific settings. He usually combines elements to make you feel uneasy by just describing the objects around. A window, a man in a wheelchair, two trashcans or barrels. So basically Beckett never says exactly where they are. All that exists is what you see and what you see isn't supposed to exist

Same thing with Waiting for Gadot. Its really just a barren place with a tree.

Answer 4

According to one database the setting for Endgame is Earth
It also gives the following info:
Time of Work: Unspecified, perhaps after a future catastrophe
Locale: The interior of a house near a seacoast

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Answer 6

The subway production was sued over casting women, rather than men, in the roles.


Endgame is set, simply, in a room. There is another room. There is a door and window to the outside.

The setting has a purposeful lack of specificity. It is simply where Hamm, his servant Clov, and Hamm's parents are sheltered, which the dialogue indicates (but does not dictate) is part of where Hamm has lived for some time. It could be part of a house, an estate, a shelter, a warehouse...

I've seen it staged in basements, in claustrophobia-inducing attics, once in a bomb shelter, and once in the middle of a glorious, blooming park (as a contrast to the world the characters see).