OK.....

The way I looked at that was because they had been going through it so many times.... I think it was just a device used by Anthony Minghella to give the audience the impression that these three people had spent a long time saying the same things. What you see id sort of like a vision of Hell or Purgatory, when you see the whole thing you realise that they are not the only ones doing this. The camera pans into them and out from them and each time you see them surrounded by other burial urns containing people doing the same sort of thing, talking through their mistakes from their lives.

If English is not your first language it is probably really hard to understand and will possibly need to watch it a few times so you can catch all of what they say. I know you can rent "Beckett on Film" and Play is on the 4th DvD, there is a documentary that you may want to watch as well but that is on the 1st DvD.

A lot of Samuel Beckett's later work is a little surreal, he liked his audience to think about what they are seeing and hearing. Play is one you have to think about.