Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett
Written 51 years ago, Happy Days is Samuel Beckett's
prescient comic vision of our preoccupations
and the earth's possible future.
Actress Mary Ewald and director John Kazanjian's powerful staging of Samuel Beckett's comedic and incisive reverie of the anxiety of existence. In Beckett's fourth full-length play --and his first with a female protagonist -- Winnie (Ewald) and Willie (Seanjohn Walsh) are stuck in a rut. But even though it's the end of shopping as we know it, the couple remain up-beat and maintain a full routine of stimulating activity to get them thru the day.
Happy Days closed on May 5, 2012
See the HAPPY DAYS preview article & interview
with Mary Ewald in the Seattle Times
Susan Sontag on Samuel Beckett
Seattle Times: "...the gifted actress Mary Ewald, ... unnervingly channeled Beckett as in a waking dream."
The Stranger: "a dazzlingly accomplished ...performance by Seattle's Seanjohn Walsh".
occurring on the city's more revered stages."