Endgame
Samuel Beckett’s play Endgame is not about Alzheimer’s or dementia, but it is about old age, illness, poverty, and dysfunctional family relationships. The scene consists of an empty room where a family of four people live. Hamm is blind and sits in a wheelchair. Nell and Nagg are Hamm’s elderly parents who are bedridden. Their “beds” consist of them sitting in separate garbage cans beside each other. Clov is Hamm’s adopted son.
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He takes care of the others, and he is the only one who is somewhat healthy, but he limps and can’t sit. The room is empty except for Nell and Nagg in their garbage cans, Hamm in his wheelchair, and Clov, who walks back and forth and occasionally looks out the window. Quite early in the play, the following dialogue occurs:
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