Interpretation
Q: "Why did the chicken cross the road?"
A: "To get to the other side."
MRS ROONEY: It is suicide to be abroad.
“All That Fall manages to develop a highly dynamic genre in radio drama through a multi-layered script, which can be read as tragicomedy, a murder mystery, a cryptic literary riddle or a quasi-musical score.”
It’s said that, death is no joking matter. The thing is, with Beckett it is and this play is crammed full of references to it. The play’s setting is realistic enough and the characters too, if a little grotesque, but hardly anyone’s life has not rubbed shoulders with Death, from the unfortunate hen mowed down by Slocum’s car to the poor child thrown from the train. It is the dominant theme but far from the only one.
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