ENDGAME - Faber **New Edition**

Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.'Outside lies a world of death. Inside the room the blind, impervious Hamm sits in a wheelchair While his lame servant, Clov, scuttles about obeying his orders. Each depends fractiously on the other: Hamm alone knows the combination of the larder while Clov is master's eyes and last remmant of human contact. The only other survivors are Hamm's legless parents, Nagg and Nell, who squat in dustbins upstage and die during the play''Where is this place? It is here, that is all we can say - here before us, on stage.'HAMM: clov!CLOV: yes.HAMM: Nature has forgotten us.CLOV: There's no more natureHAMM: no more nature! You exaggerateCLOV: In the VicinityHAMM: But we breathe, we change!we lose our hair our teeth! Our bloom!Our ideals!CLOV: Then she hasn't forgotten us.