The second offering, Not I, starring Briana Marxen-McCollom clad in a shroud-like costume that left only bright red lips visible, was the telling and retelling of a childhood accident that left her mute. Building in intensity as she described in broken fashion what had happened, the character tries to make sense of… an event that yet remains insensible.

the final offering, Footfalls, has Deborah Madick as a woman conversing with the disembodied voice of her mother, while alternately pacing and standing quite still before us. There are long gaps in the conversation as the daughter first offers care-taking services, then tells a story about another girl, May.

In these plays, Beckett shows us people stuck in a solipsistic universe, three distinct yet all equally effective portraits of the pain of trying, yet failing, to connect.