The Washington Post, June 19th, 1998
How much can you take away from a play and still have a theatrical experience left? This is what Samuel Beckett seems to have asked himself every time he wrote a play, and the question, adapted to acting, also seems to have occurred to Edward Petherbridge, who appears for the second of only two performances tomorrow night in "Krapp's Last Tape" at the Kennedy Center. Here, as in "Hamlet," where he plays both the Ghost and the Player King, he proves to be an actor without dross. Slender and pale with a sharp, clean profile, Petherbridge is already slightly stylized, one of those streamlined mod...
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