All That Fall (Masterplots II: Drama)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Absurdist
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: A suburb of Dublin, Ireland
- Principal Characters: Mrs. Rooney, Mr. Rooney
- Genres: Drama, Absurdist literature, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1950’s, Blindness or blind persons, Marriage, Death or dying, Existentialism, Diseases, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: Dublin, Ireland
The Play
All That Fall, a radio play, opens with a chorus of farm animals heard against Franz Schubert’s String Quartet, “Death and the Maiden,” and the shuffle of trudging feet. It is a Saturday morning in June, in the village of Boghill, Ireland, sometime during the 1950’s. Mrs. Rooney (nee Dunne) is on her painful way—she is overweight and in her seventies—to meet her blind husband at the local railway station, on this, his birthday. Since it is also a day for the Leopardstown horse races, everyone hopes that the weather will hold.
As she makes her...
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