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Based on Beckett's last piece "Stirring Still" written on his death bed in 1989.
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One Table One chair, man sits with head over hands with candle in front of table, lit.
In distant stage Left a stool stands below a lit window peering outside
He rises a bit and falls, rises a bit more and falls, rises a bit more almost full then falls,
Then once more he rises all the way,
He gazes down and picks up the candle and looks up and puts out the candle only for a stage light to come on from the window lighting the space.
He only gazes at the window as if a deer caught in headlights.
He takes one step forward towards the window and stool but then pulls back. With a look of misunderstanding, and then a sudden look of realization he smiles, but then loses the smile as if he found more of a reason for pity so to he turns his vision from the window and hides from the light and falls asleep only to be lit again in another spot riseing awake, then again and again. He is found by the light and awoken from his short slumber
Then finally giving up he basks in the light with his eyes closed only for the light to fade out.
He then opens his eyes to find the candle and aproaches the table where he once slept and falls to his seat and re lights the candle and falls back asleep

He then awakens once again with the lights flickering from day to night white and yellow to blue and black.
He stands clinging to the table as if he were about to fall over, then he regains control and sits only to bounce back up clinging once again the regains control and falls to seat only to faster and faster rise and clinge and fall, until he finally has all the control and without the torso moving his feet start to wonder slowly off side to side back to front and all around then he hands finally release the grasp of the table, and his feet carry him off stage and across from another wing then once again to another wing at which time a women appears when he exits and finds a place at the table with here head on hands. and another wing until finally he is forced out pushed out of the wing, like a peasant on the streets. Falling right beside the table where he once sat, recognizing the place he gets up only to find someone he knew all to well sitting in his place, at the poin the starts to cry.
He then collapses and as he does she rises and as he rises to greet her she walks away into the wing at which he goes after her only to exit as she enters from the other side. Backwards and not in sight of him, he then backs on as she exits.with him catching the last glimpse of her, he falls CS as others maybe two or three enter and exit accordingly. Then one comes on and rises him to his seat and places him in his position. with head on hands in the chair. Then the person exits as he rises and says “WAIT” Then he slowly fades back down to his head over hands.

A clock Strkes its tone and then the tick tock sounds aloud and the Woman reappears as he loweres his head and then he lifts quickly but she only disappears again. The clock strokes fade out as he rises from his keep ad screams a silent scream. Then a few seconds later it appears, frightening him. He returns to his seat, and once his head touches his hands the clock strikes againat which time his head rises, and he silently screams again awake he waits for the sound that waits to come never to sound and he falls back asleep, to wake again and raise his head enough to see his hands, gazing at them, smelling them, feeling them one hand crosses table down right the other passes over and lands ontop of it, he then raises his head and peers at them then pulling his eyes away they follow and slam onto the table pulling his head back on top.

He then rises and simply walks off stage and reenters in night lights.and crosses SR to SL.He does again and stops CS the lights fade to night lights then back again to day, then again and again, until he raises his hand and stops the light from fading he then exits and reenters and nothing changes at which he is shocked and sneaks off and reenters from another place, and then becoming fine with it he returns to his seat. He then moves the whole set in one movement without lifting his head.then when he arrives he awakens and falls and once again does the same. The clock strokes rise and when it sounds he screams his silent scream.

The cry then sounds echoing in his mind, and again and again. The the cries go silent and the clock sounds and fades to silence then he raises his head slowly as the clock and cries sound loudly together. frightening him to sleep. Then the sounds fade away and he is left in silence. He then rises once more and paces SR to SL, losing his sanity on the matter he gasps “Right Mind?” Pahhhh”.
He the paces to the clock counting out 7 or eight on his fingers. And gazing still then shakes his why you little finger at the clock. Then he starts to giggle then laugh and luagh louder till the clock strokes again, silencing him. To tears. Then a light shines once again from the window SL. He finds it and runns toward it hoping to get a glimpse of it. But it then fades away with his stillness. He then falls back and lands in his chair head over hands.

One last time he rises a bit and a bit more and a bit more. And then he exits his stage with his candle and reenters from the other side backwards as the woman appears parrallel forwards and then he reaches his chair as she exits with one last glimpse by him. and comes to table and sits and whispers “Oh all to End” Then puts out the candle and falls asleep.
The end.
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