At the sound of a piercing bell Winnie ... “Happy Days” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com "Only Beckett could ...

Perhaps the most iconic image from Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” is that of Winnie, half in a mound of earth, half out, holding a delicate parasol above her head to shield the unyielding sun.

Like Estragon and Hamm and so many other characters in the plays of Samuel Beckett, Winnie in ”Happy Days” is a paradox of desolate vitality. She is–as we see her wedged into a mound of ...

This reexamination of the Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days" features Brooke Adams as Winnie, a woman buried up to her bosom in a mound of dirt, and her husband Willie, (Tony Shalhoub), lurking ...

Renaissance Theaterworks will continue its 27th season of "Transformation" with Samuel Beckett's 1961's modern masterpiece, HAPPY DAYS. Through Winnie and her relationship with husband Willie ...

While playing Winnie in Renaissance Theaterworks' new production of Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," Laura Gordon will never leave the stage. Because she can't. In the first act, Gordon will be ...

His play from 1961, “Happy Days,” which runs Sept. 23 through Oct. 2, is essentially an extended monologue spoken by a married woman named Winnie ... Hudson Hall. “Samuel Beckett has been ...

But is that all we need in a Beckettian character? Wiest plays Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days,” at Mark Taper Forum through June 30. She’s perhaps the greatest female character he ...

Kayla Boye in Happy Days at KB Productions Credit: Kachi Mozie Dame Peggy Ashcroft considered the role of Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s notoriously difficult Happy Days a “summit part,” one of ...

Indeed, the esteem in which Happy Days is now held can be seen in comparisons made between Winnie and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This parallel isn’t nearly as far-fetched as it might seem at first.

Happy Days, which was first performed in 1961, spans the generations as a triumph of Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic ... of sand or soil has built up around Winnie, who, as the play opens, is ...