FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

TRIPTYCH: An Evening of Shorter Plays by SAMUEL BECKETT to be performed at the Boston Center for the Arts

BOSTON: Company One announced today that they will host TRIPTYCH: An Evening of Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston from March 15th through March 31st. Plays include Krapp's Last Tape, Ohio Impromptu, and Footfalls. Performances will run Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $18, $15 for students and seniors, and may be purchased in advance by calling the BCA box office at 617.426.2787 (617.426.ARTS).

Company One is proud to be hosting TRIPTYCH: An Evening of Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett on its first stop of an international tour. After a brief tour of the northeast, Triptych will be heading to Poland this summer.

Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, has produced some of his most widely praised work in the form of the shorter play. There is hardly a wasted word or an insignificant allusion in each of these exquisite works. The Off-broadway sensation, Krapp's Last Tape has been called "the most affectionate portrait of a character that Beckett has ever done," "appropriately weird," and "frequently funny." Footfalls, hailed as "powerful" by the New York Times, follows the "rigid somnambulistic pacing of a woman across a wooden plank as an offstage voice supplies a rhythmic accompaniment." Ohio Impromptu explores the poignant inter-dependency of its two characters, as they "buoy each other up against 'the terror of the night'." It has been called "A classic expression of the solipsism that obsesses Beckett's post-human heroes" by the Chicago Tribune. Please join us as we celebrate one of the greatest playwrights of all time.