Books like Krapp's Last Tape
A play: on his sixty-ninth birthday, Krapp, alone in his den with bananas and a tape recorder, listens to the tape he made thirty years before, about a woman in a punt.
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Happy Days
A play: Winnie, buried to her waist in a mound of scorched earth, chatters cheerfully through her day with her toothbrush and handbag while her husband Willie crawls about behind.
Endgame
A play: in a bare room after some unexplained catastrophe, blind, chair-bound Hamm and his servant Clov, who cannot sit down, play out their last moves while Hamm's parents live in two dustbins.
Tirra Lirra by the River
Nora Porteous, in her seventies, comes home to the Brisbane house where she grew up after decades in Sydney and London, and remembers her life.
The Spectator Bird
Joe Allston, a retired literary agent in California, reads aloud to his wife from the journal of a trip to Denmark they took twenty years before, and old secrets come back.
The House of Sleeping Beauties
Old Eguchi visits a secret seaside inn where elderly men pay to spend the night beside young women drugged into a deep sleep, and each night brings back memories of his life.
The Sense of an Ending
Tony Webster, retired and settled, receives a solicitor's letter about a small bequest from the mother of his university girlfriend, and it forces him to revisit his friendship with Adrian, the brilliant schoolfriend whose story he thought he understood.
The Cherry Orchard
An aristocratic family's estate is sold to a merchant, and the cherry orchard they can't save becomes a symbol of everything that changes when a social order dies.
Across the River and into the Trees
Colonel Richard Cantwell, fifty, scarred by two wars and with a failing heart, spends a winter weekend in Venice duck-hunting and with Renata, a young Venetian countess who loves him.
The Lake
Gimpei Momoi, a former teacher who lost his job after an affair with a pupil, can't stop following women he sees in the street, and his memories drift back to a lake of his childhood.
The Caretaker
Aston brings Davies, an old tramp, home to his cluttered room in West London, and Davies starts playing Aston off against his brother Mick to keep his place.
The Sea
An ageing Irishman reflects on a childhood summer by the sea and the drowning that ended it, unable to separate memory from invention.
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
Jean Daragane, an ageing writer living alone in Paris, gets a call from a stranger who has found his lost address book, and is drawn back towards a childhood he has forgotten.