Happy Days
Bille Brown Studio, Qtc
QTC's latest production Happy Days is Samuel Beckett’s absurd, surreal masterpiece – a powerful tale of a woman’s struggle to survive against the odds and featuring QTC’s resident powerhouse actor, Carol Burns.
Burns has got a dream role to play as Winnie, with a critic from The Telegraph saying it’s “the greatest role for a woman in Beckett’s work and has been described as the actress’s equivalent of King Lear.”
Winnie spends the play buried to her waist and then her neck in sand, talking to her mostly unseen husband, Willie, as she goes about her daily rituals as if this predicament is a normal part of life. She has a bag full of all her worldly possessions and assures herself that this is one of her happy days. Is this brave woman eternally optimistic or deep in denial about her fate?
Carol Burns says, “Winnie has a brave heart first and foremost. We are all trying to make our way through life as best we can and Winnie uses all the resources that are available to her, wisely husbanded, to get through the day. This script is like a piece of music and you must let yourself feel it through to the end, and then consider the journey.”
Happy Days, directed by Wesley Enoch, is sure to be a rewarding and challenging (in the best sense of the word) visit to the theatre.
By Vicki Englund
Happy Days
Bille Brown Studio, QTC
78 Montague Rd
West End
Jul 18 - Aug 15
$33- $50 + Book fee
3010 7600
