All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen

This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio television and film offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism. Above all Beckett found his unique uses for the radio-play a medium 'for voices not bodies' compacted of speech sound and silence - and the plays in this volume intently explore the resources and limits of the sound-stage.<br><br><i>My father back from the dead to be with me. (Pause.) As if he hadn't died. (Pause.) No simply back from the dead to be with me in this strange place. (Pause.) Can he hear me? (Pause.) Yes he must hear me. (Pause.) To answer me? (Pause.) No he doesn't answer me. (Pause.) Just be with me. (Pause.) That sound you hear is the sea. (Pause. Louder.) I say that sound you hear is the sea we are sitting on the strand. (Pause.) I mention it because the sound is so strange so unlike the sound of the sea that if you didn't see what it was you wouldn't know what it was. (Pause.). Hooves!</i><br><i></i><br><b><i>Contents: </i></b>All That Fall Embers Words and Music Eh Joe Quad Film ...but the clouds... Ghost Trio Nacht und Tr&#228;ume Rough for Radio I Rough for Radio II Cascando The Old Tune<br><br>Preface and Notes by Everett Frost