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Samuel Beckett on Film
 
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Playing area dimly lit, surrounded by shadow. Also dimly lit, surrounded by shadow is V.

With no set, the theatrical space is not localised. Metaphorically, it is anywhere and everywhere that any man and everyman inhabits. The setting being non-representational, the focus is thrown onto the nature of the human existence that plagues Bam. No matter where Bam should find himself his dilemma would be the same.

Notwithstanding, Damien O'Donnell, Director of What Where for the ‘Beckett on Film’ project, reasoned that ‘the whole play is about power and the abuse of power, and how information is power, so we used the library as a metaphor for somebody who has control of all the power and all the information.’