EndGame, a play by Samuel Beckett, previews November 23, 2007 and will continue its run November 24th and 25th, December 7th, 8th, 9th and December 14th, 15th, and 16th. All performances begin at 7:30pm and will be held at the Benefit Players Theater, corner of Guard and Tucker. As will all performances at BPT, admission is by donation.

About Endgame:
Hamm (Ed Strum) and his servant (Warren Baehr) pass the time toying with the hopelessness of their situations. Their dialogue is punctuated by appearances by Hamm's parents, Nell (Susan Ross) and Nagg (Ernest Pugh) who live in garbage cans.

At one point, Nell says to Nagg: "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that." Besides being very humorous, the play may be "Without hope and without faith but not without nobility, not without poetry, not without the balance and the beauty of rhythm. For that reason Endgame, so mournful, so distraught, is a magnificent theatrical experience" Harold Hobson in the The Sunday Times.

Samuel Beckett's second play, Endgame, was finished in July 1956. It was published in February 1957. The first production, directed by Roger Blin, was put on in the Studio des Champs-Elysées in May of that year.

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The Benefit Players present THE FANTASTICKS opening November 9 at 7:30pm at the Benefit Players Theater, corner of Tucker Avenue and Guard Street. As will all performances at BPT, admission is by donation. Performances will be weekends - Nov. 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 and again Nov 30, Dec 1, 2.

Directed by Ed Wilson, assisted by Jacque Anthony as Stage Director and Jenepher Reeves as Music Director, THE FANTASTICKS tells the story of a young boy and girl who fall madly in love at the hands of their meddling fathers, but soon grow restless and stray from one another. Will their separation provide a deeper appreciation for the love they once shared or create a permanent gulf between them? THE FANTASTICKS is the quintessential celebration of love, in all its gorgeous simplicity and heartbreaking complexities, and features such classic tunes as "Try To Remember," "Much More," and "I Can See It."