The Cutting Ball Theater - Risk is this...

This smart production conveys both
the astonishing beauty of Beckett's
prose and the proper amount of
empathy for all the suffering caused
by living in a maddeningly nonsensical
world that provides no answers to
any of our most important questions.
It's almost as if they mean to say that
life is worth living anyway. To do all
that with Beckett is quite an amazing
feat.
-Deborah Giattina, SF Bay Guardian

[In] Melrose's masterful mise-enscène…
Monsen's Clov is the most
affecting of all the characters in this
Endgame. Dressed in a black leather
vest, grubby white T-shirt, jeans, and
black boots, he could be any modern
twentysomething wandering around
the Mission or the Haight. Monsen
imbues his character with a deep
sense of unhappiness and physical
pain. He looks like he might burst into
tears at any second, and yet there's a
quiet sense of humor and purpose
about his stuttering, deliberate
movements.
-Chloe Veltman, SF Weekly

Cutting Ball Theater serves up an
Endgame that rides the infinity of
existential reality as it comes up close
and personal to moments we all
know so well. Director Rob Melrose
gives us a Hamm and Clov that are
more neighbors than lofty caricatures
assigned at the entrance gates of a
new reasoning. The result is a bloom
of reality as we know it, springing
from timeless metaphor that only
Samuel Beckett could deliver. And a
beautiful bloom it is.
-Eryka M. Fraczek, SF Bay Times