Sunday, September 7, 2025
2:00PM to 3:00PM
Samuel Beckett’s ENDGAME staged reading
Former NMAL Artistic Directors Nicholas Ballas and Robert Benedetti are teaming up to present an invitation-only sneak peek at Samuel Beckett’s classic play, ENDGAME.
There will be two performances. Please choose one date to attend:
Saturday, September 6 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, September 7 at 2:00 pm
Both readings will be presented at Strata Gallery, 125 Lincoln Ave, Suite 111, in downtown Santa Fe. Seating is limited, so please RSVP by contacting Katie Olivant at kfolivant@nmactorslab.com.
First staged in 1957, ENDGAME, along with Waiting for Godot, stands as one of the masterpieces of modern theater. Deeply moving and filled with black humor, ENDGAME gives the audience a look at Beckett’s version of the final chapter of life and perhaps of existence itself.
Cast and Creative Team
The protagonist, Hamm (Robert Benedetti), is blind and unable to move without the help of his bedraggled manservant, Clov (Nicholas Ballas). Hamm’s parents (Kat Sawyer and Dan Friedman) live in trash bins, occasionally joining the action when summoned by Hamm. Current Artistic Director Emily Rankin will present the mise en scène and read stage directions.
An homage to vaudeville as well as to the nihilism of postwar Europe, ENDGAME invites the audience into a world at once ironic, silly, and full of despair. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.