Dominic Hill is to direct Beckett’s iconic play Endgame in a new co-production with Manchester’s HOME as part of the spring 2016 season.
The Citizens Theatre’s new co-production featuring David Neilson and Chris Gascoyne in the roles of Hamm and Clov runs from February 4-20. The Citizens Theatre’s new co-production featuring David Neilson and Chris Gascoyne in the roles of Hamm and Clov runs from February 4-20.
Trapped in an endless struggle for control, Hamm and Clov exchange cruel insults while Hamm’s parents Nagg and Nell look on from the confines of their rubbish bins. Regarded as one of Beckett’s greatest works, Endgame offers a brutal yet darkly comic meditation on death, mixing the absurd with the macabre.
David Neilson, best known for his current role as Roy Cropper in Coronation Street, will play the cruelly manipulative Hamm. Neilson has appeared in the soap since 1995. He was last seen on stage as Lucky in Waiting for Godot at the Library Theatre Manchester, one of two Manchester arts organisations which, together with Cornerhouse merged to form HOME.