Gary Oldman is sublime as the old man brooding over recordings of his younger self in Samuel Beckett’s one-acter – not that it’d really matter if he wasn’t. The prodigal screen star’s sold-out return to the stage with this self-directed and self-designed show is a cultural event pregnant with resonance as much as a piece of living, breathing theatre.
He opened it last year at York Theatre Royal, where he made his professional debut in 1979. Now it’s part of the 70th anniversary season of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court, where he last trod the boards in 1987. This is also where Krapp’s Last Tape premiered in 1958, seven months after Oldman was born.
