One play by this author opens with a man happily repeating the word "spool" when he finds a recording he made when he was 39 
One play by this author opens with a man happily repeating the word "spool" when he finds a recording he made when he was 39 years old. That play, written for the actor Patrick Magee, features an old writer reminiscing bitterly on his younger self. One of this author's characters delivers a winding speech repeating phrases like "Testew and Cunard" and "the stones" and "the skull" after another man places a hat on his head and commands him to think. In a play by this author of Krapp's Last Tape, Lucky and Pozzo meet Vladimir and Estragon, who consider hanging themselves if the title character does not show up. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright of Waiting for Godot.
One play by this author opens with a man happily repeating the word "spool" when he finds a recording he made when he was 39 years old.
: Samuel Beckett [or Samuel Barclay Beckett]