Footfalls is a short play about a woman called May, caring for her elderly mother as she obsessively paces the stage. Beckett is unbelievably precise with the staging and stage directions (this is the case for each of these plays) but still it was very confusing. In some way May haunts herself, but very little happens and I was so lost it wasn’t the most enjoyable. (2 stars)

Rockaby focuses on an elderly lady on a rocking chair in the dark, the light focused on her face as she rocks back and forth listening to an extremely bleak tape of sorts. This was an absolutely harrowing depiction of the futility of life and lack of human willpower to exist and really look forward to studying this one! I feel it’s the sort of thing that will become so memorable and prominent when it has a bit of time to marinate and for me to think about it. (3 stars)

(I did not read ’Not I’ but this was the only edition I could find of ‘Footfalls’ to log it)