Kennesaw State presents Beckett play "Endgame"

"The end is in the beginning, and yet you go on . . ." utters Hamm, the blind and crippled protagonist of Samuel Beckett's enigmatic play "Endgame." These cryptic words offer a glimpse of what to expect at the StudioWorks' 2000-2001 season opener at Kennesaw State University Sept. 7-10.

Funny, yet disturbing, "Endgame" presents the struggles of four characters trapped in a small room, cut off from an outside world which Clov, Hamm's servant, describes as "in a word? Corpsed." Left with only four walls, two windows, and themselves, the characters while away the time by engaging in a seemingly never-ending routine of dialogue, storytelling and slapstick antics in a vain effort to give themselves closure in a world on the brink of extinction.

Performance times are 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat., and 3 p.m. Sun. in the Wilson Building Studio Theater. Tickets are $5. For more information or to order tickets, call the KSU School of the Arts box office at 770-423-6650.