All That Fall, by Samuel Beckett

A life of unending misery, a world devoid of God, now that's funny.

In Pan Pan's Production of Samuel Beckett's first radio play All That Fall we encounter Maddy Rooney in her seventies -- unsightly, ungainly and unwell -- laboriously to-ing and fro-ing between her home and Boghill Station (the only named location in any Beckett play). This is a landscape whose details are drawn from the Foxrock and Leopardstown of Beckett's youth, but which may now exist solely in Maddy's mind.

"Do not imagine, because I am silent, that I am not present."

All That Fall is a multi-layered composition of voices that can be experienced as a black comedy, a murder mystery, a cryptic literary riddle or a quasi-musical score, but that gains from being experienced in Pan Pan's uniquely atmospheric, theatrically tuned listening chamber.

"Theatre not be missed" - Sunday Independent 2010

"A present tense theatre company who knows what it's doing." - The New York Times

WRITTEN BY SAMUEL BECKETT

DIRECTED BY GAVIN QUINN

COSTUME/ LIGHTING/ SET DESIGN BY AEDIN COSGROVE

SOUND DESIGN BY JIMMY EADIE

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROS KAVANAGH

CAST: ANDREW BENNETT, PHELIM DREW, JOHN KAVANAGH, AINE NI MHUIRI, ROBBIE O'CONNOR, JOEY O'SULLIVAN, DAVID PEARSE, DEANIEL REARDON, JUDITH RODDY

PREMIERE: PROJECT ARTS CENTRE, DUBLIN, 22 AUGUST — 2 SEPTEMBER, 2011

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