Rick Cluchey

Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters, written in a style associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. (wikipedia)

The curtain rises on "[a] late evening in the future." It is Krapp's sixty-ninth birthday and, as has become his custom, he hauls out his old tape recorder, reviews one of the earlier years - in this case the recording he made when he was thirty-nine - and makes a new recording commenting on the events of the previous twelve months. He is described in the text as a "wearish old man. (wikipedia)