ohio impromptu

.......' Ohio Impromptu ' is a ' Playlet ' by Samuel Beckett. Written in 1980, it began as a favour to S.E.Gontarski, who requested a dramatic piece to be performed at an academic symposium in Columbus, Ohio in honour of Beckett's 75th birthday. Beckett was uncomfortable in writing to order and struggled with the piece for nine months before it was ready. It was performed on the 9th of May 1981 at the Stadium 11 Theatre .It is the first Beckett play to present a Doppelganger on stage , another Beckett pair , but this time seen as mirror images ; it belongs to Beckett's 'Ghost' period , where phantoms that echo the haunting quality of memory and nostalgia in his work are seen or described on stage.