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All That Fall
Wilton’s Music Hall, London E1
4/5
SAMUEL Beckett’s All That Fall was written for radio and he was adamant that it should not be performed on stage.
Even so, directors have found ingenious ways to recreate the radio effect in live performance. In this production by Out of Joint, director Max Stafford-Clarke has the audience blindfolded and receptive to the cacophony of sound from screeching pigs, hens, rain and wind as the elderly Maddy Rooney laboriously makes her way to the station to pick up her blind husband who is arriving on the 12.30 train.
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