All That Fall

About the Play

“It is a text written to come out of the dark” Samuel Beckett of his mysterious, tragicomic first radio play.

All That Fall charts the faltering journey of elderly Maddy Rooney as she ventures along a country road to surprise her blind husband at the train station for his birthday treat. Along the way she meets an array of local characters; some of them friendly, some of them not so much. She is an eccentric and vociferous woman, cantankerous and unpredictable who likes to provoke others. When she finally arrives to the train station she is disconcerted to find her husband’s train is late. This event prompts much speculation and worry from Mrs. Rooney and other people at the station.

When the train finally arrives, Mr. Rooney is cold and distant. Their slow and decrepit journey back home is punctuated with Mr. Rooney’s tale of what happened to delay the service. But is he telling the truth?

First broadcast in 1957, All That Fall was the first time Beckett centred his work on a female protagonist.

 

Cast

Sumit Barua Chayon

Ankhi Majumder

Mubidur Rahman Sujat

Rumal Barua

Bappy Shikder 

Nazia Tabassum Nancy 

Md. Anisul Islam Sharnil

Iqbal Hossain Chowdhury

 

Credit

Set, Light, Costume, Music Design  :  Ashim das

Choreography  :  Tilottoma Sengupta

Music  :  Ali Afsar Jumman

Make-up  :  Shaheenoor Sarwar / Tapos Chakraborty

Props Assistance  :  Boby, Rumel

Carpenter  :  Md. Malek

Production Coordinator  :  Showmen Rudra, Hasibul Alam

FOH  :  Fameans