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Beckett Radio Plays |
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ALL
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(Written in 1957)
Samuel Beckett’s first radio play is full of Irish humor
and pathos. In it, Maddy Rooney (Billie Whitelaw), seventy years old,
"two hundred pounds of unhealthy fat", makes her laborious way
to the Boghill railroad station to meet her blind husband, Dan (David
Warrilow), as a surprise for him on his birthday. Along the way she meets
a comic array of Irish characters. On the return home, deluged by neighborhood
children and by rain, they keep their spirits up with a lively banter,
sometimes savage, sometimes heart rending. This production premiered on
Samuel Beckett's eightieth birthday, April 13, 1986, and has won a Gold
Medal from the New York International Radio Festival and an Arts and Humanities
Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Produced with a documentary about the
play itself which features interviews with the actors performing
the series, as well as with
Beckett scholars.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Soundscape, Inc., Alexandria, VA;
Voices
International, New York, NY; and RIAS, Berlin, Germany
YEAR PRODUCED: 1986
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Louise Cleveland
PROJECT ORIGINATOR: Martha Fehsenfeld
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Everett C. Frost
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Faith Wilding
WRITER: Samuel Beckett
STUDIO SOUND EFFECTS: Charles Potter
RECORDING ENGINEER: Mike Moran
PRODUCTION ENGINEER: David Rapkin
HOST: Henry Strozier
CAST: Billie Whitelaw, David Warrilow, Alvin Epstein, Jerome
Kilty, George Bartenieff, Susan Willis
COMMENTARY: Desmond Briscoe, Everett Frost, Billie Whitelaw,
Richard
Ellman, Linda Ben-Zvi, Enoch Brater, Hersh Zeifman, David Hesla
AWARDS: New York International Radio Festival, Gold Medal, Best
Drama
Special; Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Honorable Mention,
Arts
and Humanities Programming
FORMAT: Compact disk (120:00)
2 (60:00) CDs: drama (89:00); documentary (31:00)
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