The documentary Me To Play follows two actors suffering from Parkinson's who find purpose in staging a production of this play. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this one-act play, in which two characters who live in a pair of dustbins are the parents of a blind man in an armchair.
ANSWER: Endgame [or Fin de partie]
[10e] This playwright drew on his mother's death from Parkinson's for the play Endgame. This Irish playwright wrote many of his plays, such as Endgame and Waiting for Godot, in French.
ANSWER: Samuel Beckett [Samuel Barclay Beckett]
[10h] In Endgame, Beckett kills off Nell, Hamm's mother; before she dies, Nell says that "nothing is funnier than" this concept.
ANSWER: unhappiness [or malheur]
<Elizabeth Cowan , Literature - European any>