Ohio Impromptu - Beckett on Film 1/2

'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 Becket 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 .