[NEohioPAL] Cesear's Forum to present Samuel Beckett's ALL THAT FALL
Greg Cesear
cesearsforum at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 8 22:46:08 PDT 2010
Dear Neohiopal Friends:
Cesear's Forum will present Samuel Beckett’s ALL THAT FALL at Kennedy's Down
Under, PlayhouseSquare, Cleveland, Ohio, in a limited September/October engagement.
Mr. Beckett, an Irish “minimalist” playwright, novelist, poet and winner of the 1969
Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote in both French and English. His style and themes have
many labels; modernist, avant-garde, existential, metaphorical; evolving as part of
the Theatre of the Absurd movement. Works include: WAITING FOR GODOT,
ENDGAME, KRAPP’S LAST TAPE and HAPPY DAYS. His influence on
contemporary theatre has not abated, stylistically notable in the works of Edward Albee,
Harold Pinter and others.
ALL THAT FALL was written as a one-act radio play for the BBC in 1956. Beckett
preferred the aural quality of this piece coming to the mind’s eye, and the play has
received limited staging. A tragicomedy, the cadence and minimalist staging challenge is
in presenting the psychological and physical journey of an elderly Irish woman, Maddy
Rooney, within a radio studio environment, but then forgetting that as her perceptions unfold.
Samuel Beckett’s ALL THAT FALL, Fri. & Sat. at 8 pm, Sept. 10th thru Oct. 16th,
Sunday Matinée, Sept. 26th at 3 pm. All seats $15. Performances at Kennedy’s Down Under, PlayhouseSquare, 1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Call 216-241-6000 or
www.playhousesquare.org.
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