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Krapp’s Last Tape Krapp’s Last Tape, a play by Samuel Beckett is a very interesting peek at one period of a man’s life, and his reflections on his past. Samuel Beckett isn’t your average playwright, and in accordance with that, I found this play to be very different and intriguing. Beckett seems to be using his character, Krapp, to illustrate his theories in existentialism, which makes for a very interesting theme and outcome to the play. The style of this play is actually one that I have never encountered before. It was a realistic person with a somewhat realistic set, but in no reality that I have ever seen. It says in the introduction to the play that absurdists, such as Beckett, “felt that the ridiculous- or absurd - nature of existence should be reflected in the dramatic elements of their plays”. I suppose that by having Krapp, the main and only character sit in a desolate spot listening to himself on a tape from thirty years ago and muse over his past is supposed to reflect the absurdity that he thinks his life has been. The style that worked for me personally because the ridiculousness that Krapp regarded his life to have full of was not only apparent in the diction that Krapp spoke, but also in the