Broadcast History
The play was first broadcast by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany on 8 October 1981, as Quadrat I + II. Beckett himself directed (“assisted by Bruno Voges”). The four performers, all “members of the Stuttgart Preparatory Ballet School”, were, Helfried Foron, Juerg Hummel, Claudia Knupfer and Susanne Rehe. The same performance was rebroadcast on 16 December 1982, by BBC Two.
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