Tuesday, November 12, 2013

A nifty simile from Beckett's star-cast radio play All That Fall


One  of  the hottest  shows currently in New York  is   All T hat Fall, a 1957 radio play by Samuel Beckett.  Director  Trevor Nunn has managed to persuade the notoriously strict  Beckett estate keepers  to allow him to stage it more visually than  usually.  The  buzz  is  less a case of  the play's the thing  than  the starry leads, Sir  Michael Gambon and Dame Eileen Atkins.   The  bucolic flavor and bawdy  humor  include  this   simile with which Atkins's  Mrs.  Rooney  describes herself.

Oh, let me just flop down flat on the road like a big fat jelly out of a bowl and never move again.

My review of the playwww.curtainup.com/allthatfallny.html

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