The theatrical notebooks of Samuel Beckett

This is my first time actually reading the text, after seeing a stunning filmed version starring David Thewlis and Michael Gambon some years ago. It's as violently claustrophobic and funny as I remember. And I feel comforted by it this time. Endgame doesn't need some grand gesture or epiphany to send to its audience, it's content to just stare into the void and invite us to stare alongside it. Not behind it, though, that'd give it the shivers.