In the organizer's words:
Happy Days was first performed in New York in 1961 and has been an undisputed classic of the modern stage ever since. In 2022, The Independent voted 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 follows is still as relevant as when it was written.
Under a silent sky of glistening light, Winnie, who is submerged up to her waist in a mound of sand, and her husband Willie, who lies mostly motionless in a cave behind her, try to come to terms with their hopeless situation.
Winnie, "a bird with oil on her feathers", as Beckett once described her, is awakened by a bell, "sharp as a knife", which sets in motion her daily survival routine and her efforts to involve Willie in every aspect of it. Winnie's insatiable need for human closeness and Willie's unwillingness or inability to respond contribute to their "nec cum te and nec sine te" / "neither with you nor without you" bond, which is full of tragicomic moments and culminates in an ambiguous surprise when Winnie is up to her neck in sand.
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