8/31/2023 0 Comments All thing fall![]() ![]() "Beckett emphasised to Billie Whitelaw that Maddy had an Irish accent: In this case it is a gritty, "overwhelmingly capacious", outspoken, Irish septuagenarian, Maddy Rooney, plagued by " rheumatism and childlessness". This is the first work by Beckett where a woman is the central character. Soon-to-be Beckett regulars, Patrick Magee and Jack MacGowran also had small parts. It was first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, 13 January 1957 featuring Mary O'Farrell as Maddy Rooney with J. In fact in September "he cancelled all his appointments in Paris for a week simply because he felt wholly incapable of facing people" and worked on the script until its completion. "Never thought about radio play technique but in the dead of t’other night got a nice gruesome idea full of cartwheels and dragging of feet and puffing and panting which may or may not lead to something." Īlthough the play was written quickly and with few redrafts, the subject matter was deeply personal causing him to sink into what he called "a whirl of depression" when he wrote to his US publisher Barney Rosset in August. When the germ of All that Fall came to him, Beckett wrote to a friend, Nancy Cunard: It was published in French, in a translation by Robert Pinget revised by Beckett himself, as Tous ceux qui tombent. The autograph copy is titled Lovely Day for the Races. It was written in English and completed in September 1956. All That Fall: A Play for Radio, London: Faber and Faber, 1957Īll That Fall is a one-act radio play by Samuel Beckett produced following a request from the BBC. ![]()
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