No surprise, then, that Samuel Beckett’s dystopian nightmare Endgame has a modern resonance. Difficult, dark and bitter, it's a play riddled with existential angst — an extremely disturbing work.

Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows ...