Samuel Beckett - Text For Nothing No 8 That Time And A Piece Of

Text for Nothing #8 (1958)



From Aspen no. 5+6 Read by Jack MacGowan 

12 mins. 45 secs. 



A Piece of Monologue (English Version)



Performed by David Warrilow 

 

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In A Piece Of Monologue, written in English in 1979, a speaker tells a fragment of a story about birth and death. The play dramatises a successive loss of company: firstly in an account of the destruction of photographs and secondly in the memories of a funeral in the rain.



That Time



Performed by Niall Buggy



Similar to the formal experimentation of Play, That Time, written in English between 1974 and 1975, intercuts three monologues from three separate periods of time in the experience of one character. Each voice, 'A', 'B', and 'C' recall separate stories. The pattern is precise, with each voice speaking four times during the course of each of three scenes, all of which are marked off by silences. The first and second scenes offer precise parallel patterns; the third offers a pattern repeated three times. Time and visions of nothingness burden each voice.

 

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