Hello again,
I just read Endgame and found it somewhat confusing. In this one-act play, it seems to be about a family that is stuck inside a house due to disabilities or some other problems they have. But in the flow of things I’ve heard that it is meant to be a weird sort of allegory for chess leading to “Endgame” as it were, with the “King” character being checkmated. However, this is not the idea I got from it. My first conclusion was that this story is about a family of bloodsuckers.
From the way the characters are described in this story, one would think that they are vampires or some such thing. But vampires that live in trash cans instead of the classic wooden coffins. Also, it could be that they are vampires nearing the end of their life cycle because they ran out of victims to feed on other than their caretaker.
With the lack of information it could be something else entirely, but I like the possible idea that their caretaker may have given them all the victims in the area and one day could find no more that were suitable for his masters. Therefore, the vampires must remain inside the house until they die as it were. The fact being that they are already about as dead as they’re likely to get without help. Then they could eventually become sick of their very existence and eventually become suicidal and try to think of interesting ways of killing themselves and the story would progress from there.
Interesting coincidence?:
For those who may have heard of the television show “Quantum Leap”, the main character is a Dr. Sam Beckett. Which is pretty much identical to the name of the author who wrote this story. If anyone else sees this, I would be interested to know if there is a connection between the two. If so, please feel free to post a reply to this blog.
