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Under a mute sky of blazing light; Winnie, sunk to her waist in a mound of sand, and her husband Willie, mostly immobile in a cave behind her, attempt to cope with their doomed situation.
Winnie, “a bird with oil on her feathers“, as Beckett once described her, is woken by a bell “piercingly sharp like a knife“ that ignites her daily survival routine and quest to engage Willie with every aspect of it. Winnie‘s insatiable need for human connection and Willie’s unwillingness or inability to answer it, contribute to their “nec cum te and nec sine te” / “neither with you nor without you” bond, full of tragicomic moments, culminating in an ambiguous surprise once Winnie is neck-deep in the sand.
Happy Days first premiered in 1961 in New York and has since then unquestionably become a classic of the modern stage. In 2022, The Independent named it one of the 40 best plays of all time. More than six decades later, Beckett’s darkly comic vision of the apocalypse and the banality that comes after remains as timely as the day he wrote it.
Happy Days is part of Zeitgeist Irland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany.
Walter Asmus collaborated with Samuel Beckett on numerous theater and television productions from 1974 until the author’s death in 1989. He has directed all of Samuel Beckett’s plays internationally. His 1991 production of Waiting for Godot at Dublin’s Gate Theatre was revived multiple times, toured internationally until as late as 2008 and was accepted by critics and academics alike as “definitive”.
A play by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Walter D. Asmus
Winnie: Mary Kelly
Willie: Tomas Spencer
Set and Costume Design: Tomas Fitzpatrick
Lighting Design: Christian Maith
Directing Assistant: Maureen Gleason
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28. März 2024
20:00
29. | 30. | 31. März & 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. April
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11€ | 17,60€
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English Theatre Berlin
https://etberlin.reservix.de/events
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11/17
Teilnehmer 1 (keine Männer und eine Frau )
Max. Teilnehmer Keine Teilnehmerbegrenzung
Max. Begleitpersonen 5
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