The theatrical notebooks of Samuel Beckett

My first introduction to Beckett was Endgame, performing as Hamm in my early 20s. It's still difficult to read it without remembering the hours of rehearsal and the physical tics each word causes.

Endgame is, therefore, probably not my favourite work - that's Happy Days but it is, I think Beckett's best. Our intractable lives, the inevitability of death, run through with a black humour. A perfect one-act play.