Krapp's Last Tape

DC Arts Center
2438 18th Street NW Washington

In an age of voice memos, archives, and digital trails we can’t delete, this play lands hard. We’re all haunted by old versions of ourselves. Beckett understood that before any of this technology existed.

Presented by Scena Theatre

Thru - Mar 1, 2026

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BroadwayWorld - Highly Recommended

"...Krapp’s Last Tape is Scena Theatre’s contribution to a mini-Beckett festival that has popped up in our midst this past week, and it’s a poignant reminder of how Beckett foresaw demise—his, ours, everyone’s—with a combination of wry humor, and a resignation that sometimes borders on relief."

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- Andrew White

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...In the dimly lit black box upstairs at the DC Arts Center, Scena founder and artistic director Robert McNamara holds forth as the reclusive 69-year-old Krapp, replaying, and replying to, the voice of his 39-year-old self on an old-school spool-to-spool tape recorder. “Holds forth” is not exactly right, for McNamara appears to have entered so personally into the memory of this fictional man that when his trembling eyes stare into ours, it’s like peering into a sorrow that seems soul-deep."

- John Stoltenberg

Krapp's Last Tape presented by Scena Theatre at DC Arts Center

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Krapp's Last Tape Reviews

BroadwayWorld - Highly Recommended

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

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