SDS's 2024 season begins with two unmissable one-act productions: Samuel Becketts's Krapp's Last Tape and Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter. Join us for an evening of captivating performances and celebration of the power of theatre, that across both plays explore themes such as: the working of memory, class anxiety, isolation and loneliness, but most of all: the power of language.

Krapp's Last Tape

by Samuel Beckett

"Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No I wouldn't want them back."

A man sits alone. It is the evening of his 69th birthday. Every year, on his birthday, he records a new tape – a review of the year just gone.

But first, he listens back to a tape he recorded three decades before.

The Dumb Waiter

by Harold Pinter

"We've proved ourselves before now, haven't we? We've always done our job. What's he doing all this for? What's the idea? What's he playing these games for?"

Ben and Gus are experienced hitmen awaiting details of their next target in the basement of a supposedly abandoned cafe. When the dumbwaiter begins sending them mysterious food orders, the killers' waiting game starts to unravel.