Happy Days
Happy Days Author: Samuel Beckett
First Performance: 1961, New York
Published: 1961
Genre: Drama in 2 acts
Setting: A mound of sand, the future
Cast: 1m, 1f
Winnie, a buxom blonde of about 50, is sleeping, buried in a mound up to her breasts. When a bell rings, she happily sets about starting her daily routine. Chattering gaily, she pulls objects out of her handbag, including a revolver, brushes her teeth and hair, drinks medicine, and tosses the bottle away. This lands on her husband Willie, who appears from behind the mound. He starts to read items out of an old newspaper and then studies a pornographic postcard, which Winnie insists on seeing and then throws away in disgust. Willie retreats into a hole to escape from the ‘hellish heat’, and Winnie erects her parasol, which soon bursts into flames. She...
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