Happy Days
Lyttelton, National Theatre, London until 1 March 2007
Ah yes, so little to say, so little to do, and the fear
so great, certain days, of finding oneself… left, with hours still
to run, before the bell for sleep, and nothing more to say, nothing more
to do, that the days go by, certain days go by, quite by, the bell goes,
and little or nothing said, little or nothing done. [Raising parasol.] That
is the danger. [Turning front.] To be guarded against.
Blazing light, scorched grass. Buried to above her waist and woken by a piercing
bell, Winnie chatters away as she rummages in a bag, brushes her teeth, pulls
out and kisses a revolver. Her husband, Willie, responds now and then, reads
from an old paper, studies a pornographic postcard. A second bell signals
the end of another happy day.
Written in 1960, Samuel Beckett’s extraordinary play
opened the Lyttelton Theatre in 1976.
Happy Days returns to the National with Fiona Shaw and
Deborah Warner, one of theatre’s richest and most enduring working
partnerships (Richard II, Electra, The Powerbook, The Waste Land, Medea)
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