Undermain Season to End with 'Endgame'

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During a curtain speech before one of the recent, final performances of Port Twilight, Katherine Owens, artistic director of the Undermain Theatre, announced that the the so-far-unnamed final production of the Undermain’s 26th season would be Samuel Beckett’s classic, Endgame — to be directed by Stan Wojewodski, Jr., the former artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre and current SMU professor of directing.

The theater company has a history of doing rare but terrific stagings of Beckett’s works. But for those of us with long memories of non-Undermain Beckett, this may well mean that Bruce DuBose will get another crack at the great drama. He portrayed Hamm almost 20 years ago at the then-Addison Centre Theatre, directed by Kelly Cotten.

The Undermain’s production opens April 10.

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Jerome Weeks is the Senior Arts Reporter/Producer for KERA. Previously at The Dallas Morning News, he was the book columnist for 10 years and the drama critic for 10 years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines. View more about Jerome Weeks.

COMMENTS

Jaime

Wojewodski’s a great director of plays that are bursting with word play. His DTC productions of Stoppard and Wilde — neither a slouch with the words — were terrific. He’s particularly good at making sure clever language reveals and sharpens a play’s emotions and ideas, rather than allowing the play merely to be witty. Beckett ought to be right up his alley.