more on Pinter’s Beckett--

"Famously, the most frequently repeated stage direction is that Krapp should brood, and, Mr. Nightingale wrote, Mr. Pinter does so “with an intensity that signals the loss of hope, self-contempt and an inner bleakness that lets up only when he hears his 39-year-old self remembering a dreamy moment with a loved one in a boat that rocks ‘gently, up and down and from side to side.’ ”"