With ALL THAT FALL, the Sydney Festival has given festivalgoers the opportunity to savour a great Samuel Beckett play in its original form, as a radio play, in an environment designed to give the play maximum impact.

We (the audience) are ushered onto the stage of the Everest Theatre. It is there that we all take our seats amongst a group of rocking chairs (with a pillow depicting a skull on it) facing a made up stage area, replete with an array of lights. Also, above us, hanging from the ceiling, are lights everywhere.

For the next 70 minutes we tune in to a typically dark, elusive Beckett play. Ireland’s Peter Pan Theatre Company complements Beckett’s tale for voices with a  tale for all the senses.

The striking lighting and sound effects, together with the perfectly realised voices of the cast bringing Beckett’s odd set of characters to iife, made this a special and privileged night in the theatre.

Peter Pan’s production of ALL THAT FALL, directed by Gavin Quinn, and starring Ani Ni Mhuiri as Mrs Rooney, is playing the Seymour  Centre until January 19, 2014