National Theatre of Great Britain -Debora Warner
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“Oh this is a happy day, this will have been another happy day! After all. So far.”
The 2008 Epidaurus Festival opens with Beckett’s Happy Days (1961) and its heroine – who some have compared to a contemporary Prometheus – embedded in her mound.
One of the high points of last year’s Festival, Beckett’s take on the tragic directed by Deborah Warner was performed just once because the summer’s catastrophic forest fires necessitated the cancellation of the Festival’s final evening.
Now Fiona Shaw’s magnificent, funny, tragic Winnie is centre-stage once more in the ancient orchestra. Balancing immobility and corporeality, the modern-day woman and old-school actress sinks into the “monumentally arid set”: Win-nie has won, victorious over the ever-fewer words and the existential void [D.K.].
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Duration 1 hour and 45 minutes with one inverval.
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus
- 04/07/2008 at 21:00
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