A black-and-white photograph of two people in trash cans with the lids on top of their heads.

Bosco Hogan and Marie Mullen in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, photo by Ros Kavanagh.

Endgame

By Samuel Beckett
Directed by Garry Hynes

In our 50th anniversary year, we return to New York with a masterpiece from the Irish theatrical canon.

Following a critically acclaimed and record-breaking run in Galway last year, our production of Beckett's Endgame will tour to New York this winter for a month-long run at the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan.

Directed by Garry Hynes, the original cast returns for this transatlantic engagement: Bosco Hogan and Druid Ensemble members Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Rory Nolan.

Endgame is the tragicomic tale of a man living with his parents and his servant in a world beyond time and place.

With nowhere to go and not much to do, they spend their days telling stories and contemplating the absurdity of life.

Endgame follows Druid’s award-winning 2016 production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot which toured the world for three years, wowing audiences and critics alike.

Druid has been touring to America since 1986 to great acclaim, most memorably in 1998 for their historic Broadway run of Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane, which won four Tony Awards including Best Actress for Druid co-founder Marie Mullen and Best Director for fellow Druid co-founder Garry Hynes, the first woman to win the Tony for Best Director.

Read more about Druid's 50th anniversary season.

Show Trailer

Show Info

★★★★★
‘Garry Hynes’s searing direction makes Beckett new ... assured, meticulous, insightful and emotionally powerful'
The Observer

★★★★★
‘mesmerisingly assured ... without mitigating Beckett’s cosmic pessimism, Hynes’s staging shows us that there is still fun to be had'
Financial Times

★★★★
‘Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy'
The Irish Times

★★★★
'Beckett's classic is still as bleak and brilliant as ever'
The Irish Examiner

★★★★
'a superb addition to the best productions of Beckett's masterpiece'
The Arts Review

'the undoubted highlight of my four days in Galway ... directed by the great Garry Hynes for her famous Druid Theatre Company'
The National

'impressive production ... the cast of this blackly funny bleak piece are superb'
Connacht Tribune

'If you’ve ever wondered about seeing Beckett and wanted to see the canon production, this is the one to see'
Galway Bay FM

1 hour 25 minutes (no interval).
Please note that latecomers cannot be admitted.

Credits

  • Nagg Bosco Hogan
  • Clov Aaron Monaghan
  • Nell Marie Mullen
  • Hamm Rory Nolan

  • Director Garry Hynes
  • Set and Costume Designer Francis O'Connor
  • Lighting Designer James F. Ingalls
  • Sound Designer Gregory Clarke
  • Hair and Make-Up Designer Gráinne Coughlan
  • Associate Costume Designer Clíodhna Hallissey

Production Photos

Dates & Tickets

New York Irish Arts Center 22 October - 23 November 2025

Previous Dates

Galway Town Hall Theatre Galway International Arts Festival 5 July - 28 May 2024

5 stars rating

Garry Hynes’s searing direction makes Beckett new ... assured, meticulous, insightful and emotionally powerful

The Observer

5 stars rating

mesmerisingly assured ... without mitigating Beckett’s cosmic pessimism, Hynes’s staging shows us that there is still fun to be had

Financial Times