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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: 1962 musicals, 1962 plays, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Thousand Clowns, All That Fall, Words and Music, Blitz!, Little Me, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Gay Purr-ee, The Real Ambassadors, 16th Tony Awards, Exit the King, No Strings, All American, Mr. President, A Family Affair, Ring Round the Moon, The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker, Bravo Giovanni, Afore Night Come, Chamber Music, The Lover, Nosotros Somos Dios, Tchin-Tchin, Semi-Detached, Something About a Soldier, Chips with Everything, Everything In The Garden. Excerpt: All That Fall is a one-act radio play by Samuel Beckett produced following a request from the BBC. It was written in English and completed in September 1956. The autograph copy is titled Lovely Day for the Races. It was translated, by Robert Pinget, as Tous ceux qui tombent. When the germ of All that Fall came to him, Beckett wrote to a friend, Nancy Cunard: "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."Although 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. 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. It was first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, 13 January 1957 featuring Mary O'Farrell as Maddy Rooney with J. G. Devlin as her husband, Dan. Soon-to-be Beckett regulars, Patrick Magee and Jack MacGowran also had small parts. The producer was Donald McWhinnie. This is the first work by Beckett where a woman is the central character. In this case it is a gritty, "overwhelmingly capacious", outspoken, Irish septuagenarian, Maddy Rooney, plagued by "rheumatism and childlessness". "Beckett emphasized to Billie Whitelaw that Maddy had an Irish accent: 'I said, "Like yours," and he said, "No, no, no, an Irish accent." I realized he didn't know he had an Irish accent, and that was the music he heard in his head.'"The opening scene finds Maddy trudging down a country road towards the station, renamed "Boghill" in the play. It's her husband's birthday. She's already given him a tie but decides to surprise him by meeting him off the 12:30 train. It is a fine June morning, a Saturday since her husband is leaving his office at noon rat
