ALL THAT FALL
BY
SAMUEL BECKETT
ALL THAT FALL is a one act Radio play written in 1957.
It's produced by the experimental company, MABOU MINES at PS122.
Directed by: JoAnne Akalaitis and lit by Jennifer Tipton
Though Radio Plays are always an auditory experiences, here the director decided to stage it
with an enormous set design.
The photo graphs of the actors are shown in the beginning and then quickly removed.
The enormous and complicated set represents a rugged Irish town is by scenic designer
Thomas Dunn.
The houses in this town are tiny, like doll houses, beautifully lit. There is also a junk yard full
of broken bicycle, dirt filled tires which has been collapsed somewhere near a railway track.
One can see a beautiful blue river running through the town from the huge windows where the light
shows the time of dawn and the dusk and the changing mood of the play.
One of the town dweller, Maddy Rooney (Voiced by Randy Danson) goes to meet her elderly blind
husband (Tony Torn) at the railway station and on her way she encounter other people from the town
in an old automobile making crazy sounds. They offer her a ride.
The train has been delayed for some unknown reason but her husband Dan had not informed her of the
delay and on the way back, the dark road and the expected thunder adds to their miserable conversation
during their trip back. They discuss loudly in a ferocious manner the idea of God-who-is the creator
of all that fall and end up in hysterics.
I throughly enjoyed the design, couldn't keep my eyes off the cute little houses lit like diamonds and the
beautiful river flowing outside the windows and the haunting shadows created by light which kept
distracting me from the words. I tried very hard to concentrate but my mind kept wandering around.
Some words got lost though visually All That Fall is a marvel.
REVIEWED BY
BINA SHARIF
ATCA MEMBER
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