cascando

Beckett wrote this play in 1963. In this, an opener "opens" and "closes" two characters, voice desesperately promises to tell a story he can finish, and Music equally struggles to create a finished composition. Composer Williams Kraft was commisioned to write the musical score.


ALL THAT FALL:

This radio play was written in 1957 , an account of 70-years-old Maddy Rooney's laborious trip to the boghill railway station to meet, as a birthday surprises her blind husband, Dan, and their return home together.

Winner of an award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and a Gold Medal from the New York International Radio Festival.
 
 

ROUGHT FOR RADIO :

This was written in 1959, an animator, assisted by a stenographer and  the whipwielding mute character Dick, have the task of eliciting from Fox some unexplained testimony of unknown significance.
 
 

WORDS AND MUSIC:

This play was written in 1962. Words, called Bob, and Music, called Joe, are forced to collaborate by the club-wielding (Roak and under duress they produce two exquisite lyric poems. This drama results from a collaboration between Beckett and the American composer Morton Feldman.
 
 




(c) Mary Lidon