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'Clybourne Park,' Mark Taper Forum'Death of a Salesman,' Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre'Follies,' Ahmanson Theatre.'In the Red and Brown Water,' Fountain Theatre'Ivanov,' Odyssey Theatre'Jitney,' South Coast Repertory and Pasadena Playhouse'Krapp's Last Tape,' Kirk Douglas Theatre'Our Town,' the Broad Stage'Waiting for Godot,' Mark Taper Forum'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' Broadway's Booth Theatre

John Hurt's performance in this two-character piece (the aged Krapp and his recorded younger voice on tape) was a tour de force of Beckettian acting in which slapstick and poetry united to scale our common abyss.

'Krapp's Last Tape,' Kirk Douglas Theatre

( Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times )

John Hurt's performance in this two-character piece (the aged Krapp and his recorded younger voice on tape) was a tour de force of Beckettian acting in which slapstick and poetry united to scale our common abyss.

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