“Have you no respect for misery?” complains Maddie Rooney, Beckett’s first female protagonist, on her stumbling journey to the rail station to meet her blind old husband Dan. All That Fall, Mabou Mines’ 10th Beckett production in its 56 year history, is a visual and sonic landscape, a diorama from which spills “a text written to come out of the dark.” Overwhelmed by sounds of dialects, animals, machines, dragging feet, roaring trains, All That Fall leads us through an ordinary day to its shocking and tragic end.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

JoAnne Akalaitis is a theatre director, writer and founding member of Mabou Mines, whose first Beckett Production, Cascando (1976) was sited as “proof that the Mabou Mines is one of the most original experimental companies in the United States” by Mel Gussow of The New York Times. Outside of Mabou Mines she went on to direct Beckett’s Endgame and Beckett Shorts that included Act Without Words I, Act Without Words II, Eh Joe, and Rough For Theatre I. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants, Edwin Booth Award, and a Rosamund Gilder Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre. Akalaitis is the former Artistic Director of The Public Theater and has staged works by María Irene Fornés, Kroetz, Euripides, Shakespeare, Strindberg, Janacek, Philip Glass, Jean Genet, Tennesse Williams, Harold Pinter in addition to her own work. She has received six OBIE Awards for direction (and Sustained Achievement), a Drama Desk Award and in 2023 was inducted into the American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association Theater Hall of Fame.

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FUNDING + SUPPORT

This production is made possible with the support of Weathervane Productions.

“All That Fall” by Samuel Beckett presented through special arrangement with Georges Borchardt, Inc. on behalf of The Estate of Samuel Beckett. 

National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council and Materials for the Arts, the Axe-Houghton Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, Lawton W. Fitt and James I. McLaren Foundation, the Lekket Fund, the JKW Foundation, Emma A. Shaefer Charitable Trust, the MacMillan Family Foundation, the Shubert Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the W Trust, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the generosity of Mabou Mines’ Board of Directors and many individual donors.

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