Original Article on The New York Times

@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/article/screen/print.css); Endgame - Review - Theater - New York Times var google_hints = "Theater,Brooklyn+Academy+of+Music"; var google_ad_channel = "ar_theater"; May 2, 2008 THEATER REVIEW | 'ENDGAME' Loads of Grim Laughs Among the Garbage Cans By CHARLES ISHERWOOD Me to play, the first words spoken by the blind and immobile, the irascible and imperious Hamm in Samuel Becketts Endgame, can be either threatening or misleading. If the actors play a little too hard, the shivery weirdness of the atmosphere is dispelled by the kind of hearty, knowing laughter that signals both relief and self-satisfaction: Whew! This is not going to be the dreary slog Id feared. Of course I knew all along that Bec...(read more)