Play, rewind, FF: cuerpo, tiempo y subjetividad en La última cinta de Krapp

Abstract

Samuel Beckett´s play Krapp´s last tape is analyzed from an embodied perspective which understands knowledge as delineated by the features of our body and our interactions with physical and social environments moment to moment. Looking at the written play, Beckett´s stage directions and two specific productions, this article describes the ways in which the play embodies split subjectivity through the use of sensorial contrasts: light-darkness, silence-noise, stillness-movement, past-present. Time, the other big subject of this play, also appears through the generation of an embodied experience. Finally, the article analyzes the solutions that two specific productions of the play have given to certain themes: contrasts, use of space, rhythm, movement.