This new edition gathers all of Beckett's dramatic works for radio, television, and cinema, offering pieces that range from astute comedic naturalism to stripped-down and minimalist symbolism. Above all, Beckett found unique uses for radio plays, a medium "for voices, not bodies," condensed through speech, sound, and silence — and the performances in this volume thoroughly explore the resources and boundaries of the sonic stage.

"My father, behind the dead, to be with me. (Pause.) As if he hadn't died. (Pause.) No, just behind the dead, to be with me, in this strange place. (Pause.) Can he hear me? (Pause.) Yes, he must hear me. (Pause.) To answer me? (Pause.) No, he doesn't answer. (Pause.) Just to be with me. (Pause.) This sound you hear is the sea. (Pause. Louder.) I say that this sound you hear is the sea, we are sitting on the beach. (Pause.) I mention it because the sound is so strange, so different from the sound of the sea, that if you didn't see what it was, you wouldn't know what it was. (Pause.) Of what?!"

Contents: All That Fall, Embers, Words and Music, Eh Joe, Quad, Film, ...but the clouds..., Ghost Trio, Nacht und Träume, Rough for Radio I, Rough for Radio II, Cascando, The Old Tune.

Foreword and notes by Everett Frost.

Pages: 240, Dimensions: 13x13cm.