ALL THAT FALL A PLAY FOR RADIO BY SAMUEL BÉCKETT RADAR MABOU MINES PART OF UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL® / UTRFEST.ORG

Background for the play consisting of a village built as if part of a model railroad but with full-size track to the rear

CAST Randy Danson: Maddy Rooney (Elderly Lady) Jesse Lenat: Christy (Carter) & Mr Barrell (Station Master) Steven Rattazzi: Mr Tyler (Retired Bill Collector) Tony Torn: Mr. Slocum (Race Course Manager) & Dan Rooney (Maddie's Blind Husband) Temidayo Amay: Tommy (Railway Porter) Wendy vanden Heuvel: Miss Fitt (Protestant Church Goer) Lila Blue: Female Voice & Dolly Sylvan Shneiderman: Jerry (a Boy who habitually helps Dan home from station)

Beginning Under the Radar with some early Samuel Beckett, All That Fall at Mabou Mines

#theater #OffBroadway #UTRFest #MabouMines

Kamilah Forbes builds in Toni Morrison and shares a litany of great artists who get to work in periods of uncomfortablity, dread and erasure. #UTRFest

“We sit outside of center.”

Kamilah Forbes of The World Famous Apollo Theater - speaking in fiery poetry about the power of art on the margins, where #UTRFest sits. And recalls her co-founding of Hip Hop Theater Festuvak with Danny Hoch and Clyde Valentin. That was foundational for me too.

Dorcy Rugamba talks about how last year’s launch of the Kigali triennial was focused on an arts festival and a market, as a way to internationalize cultural memory and create an openness to bring greater empathy and understanding. Next Triennial is Feb 2027

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Is it possible to hold on when everything is ephemeral?

Ping Chong’s response “I’m done. Feel free to continue with your own vision.”

Letting go after 50 years allows the successors to build their own legacy - artistic, civic and contemplative practice.

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Commissioner Pat Swinney Kauffman of Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment frames the arts and culture sector as central to NYCs economy and puts #UTRFest in the CJ text of #JanArtsNYC. #globalFEST is also a proud founding member of this coalition steered by #APAP

Mark Russell opens #UTRFest at NYU Skirball with an acknowledgement of all the hard times we’re facing as an arts field and as a community, but puts the focus on what we CAN do.

And then he heads off to the brilliant Kaneza Schaal who talks about ephemeral “shit that disappears”