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...Sonya Hamlin. Muckrakers Woodward and Bernstein discuss Watergate and plug their book. ch. 4, 9 a.m. 1 hour...
Happy Days is a two-act, two-character play by Samuel Beckett that proves to be the toughest nut that the Summer School Repertory Theater has tried to crack all season. Joanne Hamlin plays the eternally-optimistic Winnie in what turns out to be a tour de force performance. Throughout the show Hamlin, who has about 95 per cent of all the spoken lines in the play, is buried in a mound of sand, and it is a wonder she can carry her own enthusiasm let alone Winnie's. Despite Hamlin's excellent job, the show is not all that...
...DIFFICULTY with the Loeb's production of Happy Days is largely a problem of interpretation. Director George Hamlin, a leading figure in the drama center's rise to regional prominence, doesn't ever really do very much with the relationship between Winnie and Willie, part of a more general and more alarming failure to allow the questions raised by Beckett to come out in any clear light...
...hard to fault Joanne Hamlin, the director's wife, for her perforance in Happy Days because she manages to sustain her character in the most difficult circumstances. The role of Winnie is enormously difficult, but Hamlin carries it off with extraordinary finesse. Still, Hamlin's rendition of Winnie's lines comes in a rather sing-songey fashion, and this only detracts from the seriousness of the character. Winnie, though partially a comic personage, is no buffoon and her plight deserves more sympathy than this production gives...
Happy Days is a play with much comic potential, and for the most part Hamlin and Hamlin realize the play's essential comic value. Beckett, who was 54 when he wrote the script, also has some valuable things to say about the terror of aging, and the Loeb production makes these statements for Beckett with great eloquence...