DeborahÊs Alaskan years have spared her such hopelessness, but she can only reflect on a life un-lived and conclude: Ânothing has happened to me. I have been nowhereÊ. The shared hope of Krapp and Deborah is that they might: ÂBe again. Be again.Ê ThatÊs a forlorn hope for them, apparently,
but there is something curiously redemptive for the audience watching these plays because, as Pinter acknowledged when speaking about playing Krapp in his last stage performance in 2005, the language is so beautiful and exhilarating.
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