Ever looked up at the Abbey stage and thought it looked easy? Well, now is your chance to be on stage at the Abbey (kinda). Pan Pan’s production of All That Fall allows the full audience to be on stage, as you get to sit in your own rocking chair and listen to Sam’s finest radio play. This production started life in the Project Arts Centre, before touring the world and finally finding a home in the National Theatre. Full details are below…

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Pan Pan make their Abbey Theatre Debut with All That Fall by Samuel Beckett

Thursday 11 – Saturday 20 February 2016

Take your seat ON the Abbey stage

2016 marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Beckett and this spring Pan Pan Theatre make their debut at the Abbey Theatre with their internationally acclaimed version of All That Fall, presenting Samuel Beckett’s first radio play as a communal auditory event.

This is a unique chance for audiences to physically take their seat ON the Abbey stage for an unforgettable theatrical experience.

Seated in wooden rocking chairs on the Abbey stage and surrounded by Aedin Cosgrove’s innovative lighting and production design, the audience listen to this multi-layered composition of voices that can be experienced as a black comedy, a murder mystery, a cryptic literary riddle or a quasi-musical score. Pan Pan’s version of this seminal piece of radio theatre was completely re-recorded in 2011, featuring sound design by Jimmy Eadie and the voices of ten actors, Andrew Bennett, Phelim Drew, John Kavanagh, Nell Klemenčič, Áine Ní Mhuirí, Robbie O’Connor, Joey O’Sullivan, David Pearse, Daniel Reardon and Judith Roddy.

Director Gavin Quinn is making a welcome return to the Abbey Theatre with this production, having directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the Abbey stage in 2015.

Speaking about Pan Pan’s Abbey Theatre debut with All That Fall, Gavin Quinn said: “After touring All That Fall around the world we are excited to be bringing the production back to Dublin, placing the audience at the centre of the action on the stage of our national theatre.”

Pan Pan Theatre – All That Fall by Samuel Beckett

Directed by Gavin Quinn

Design by Aedín Cosgrove

Sound by Jimmy Eadie

Cast:
Andrew Bennett, Phelim Drew, John Kavanagh, Nell Klemenčič, Áine Ní Mhuirí, Robbie O’Connor, Joey O’Sullivan, David Pearse, Daniel Reardon and Judith Roddy.