Fragments: Brook does Beckett

In the first piece of the evening, Rough for Theatre I, a pair of tramps (Khalifa Natour, top, and Marcello Magni) squabble cussedly like a married couple. One is lame, the other blind; 'If you ask me we were made for each other,' one says Photograph: Alastair Muir/PR

Kathryn Hunter takes on Rockaby, the next short play. Beckett scripts this monologue as a woman listening back to herself, perhaps after many years, but Brook emphasises its fragile innocence by having Hunter speak the lines live Photograph: Alastair Muir/PR

In Act Without Words II, Natour and Magni emerge from matching white sacks, munch the same carrot and dress rapidly for work - one with carefree abandon, the other with wrenching agony. They might be commuters on the opposite edges of town; they could just as easily be different halves of the same character Photograph: Alastair Muir/PR

Kathryn Hunter discards her chair to play Neither, an 87-word text originally scribbled on the back of a postcard by Beckett. It was sent to composer Morton Feldman, who set it to music as a one-act opera Photograph: Alastair Muir/PR

The cast members are united for Come and Go, a whimsical 'dramaticule'. Three elderly ladies (two-thirds in drag) sit on what might be a park bench, reminiscing about old times; when one of them stands up, the others engage in furious silent gossip about her. The piece ends when they all join hands in what one describes mysteriously as 'the old way' Photograph: Alastair Muir/PR