Pan Pan Theatre at Project Arts Centre Dublin
All That Fall
by Samuel Beckett
22nd August Preview
23rd August – 2nd September, 6pm & 8pm
28th August Matinee 3pm
A life of unending misery in a world devoid of God, now that’s funny.
In 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.
