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...Samuel Beckett's Happy Days is a two-hour near-monologue delevered by Winnie, a 50-year-old woman who stands buried first up to her waist, then up to her neck, in a desert mound. She lives in a world people only by herself, her husband Willie, and her "things" -- a shopping bag full of knicknacks, and a parasol. With only Willie and the things as a points of reference, Winnie fills up her days, "happy days," with endless chatter and conscientious dips into...
Humanities S-9: It looks like a beaut: the course will study the five plays being put on by the Harvard Summer Players (Shaw's Millionaires, Pinters The Dumb Walter; Beckett's Happy Days; Chekov's Uncle Vanya; and Brecht's Trumpets and Drums). Students will attend some rehearsals, discuss the plays, and perhaps take a bit part in the Brecht for credit in the course. Lectures will be by the Load's three Faculty directors, Robert Chapman, Daniel Seltzer, and George Hamlin. A warning: you'll be competing for grades with some of the members of the Summer Players...
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE and THE ZOO STORY. In a fifth-anniversary revival of this double bill, Edward Albee's Story is still provocative and dramatic, and Samuel Beckett's Tape has the true ring of a classic...
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE and THE ZOO STORY. In a fifth-anniversary revival of this double bill, Edward Albee's Story is still provocative and dramatic and Samuel Beckett's Tape has the charisma of a classic...
...Norton Simon [TIME, June 4] can call himself a Dostoevskian character, then we may as well identify Norman Vincent Peale with Samuel Beckett. In case anyone is interested, I'm a Nietzschean man. Let's all pick an author; it's "Dignify Yourself Month...