Fin de partie

About “Fin de partie”

Endgame is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play by Samuel Beckett. First performed in London in 1957, it follows a blind, paralysed, and domineering elderly man named Hamm, his geriatric parents, and his servile companion in an abandoned house in a fictional post-apocalyptic wasteland. The characters await an unspecified "end." The play features terse, back-and-forth dialogue and trivial stage actions. A grotesque story-within-a-story is told by Hamm. The title refers to chess, and the characters act out a losing battle with each other or their fate. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)