This March: HAPPY DAYS by Samuel Beckett

wild project presents

HAPPY DAYS, March 5-7, 11-13

www.happydays.nyc

Something has occurred. And now Winnie can’t leave—can’t see anyone—can’t move—is perpetually stuck. There is little to do but brush her teeth and maintain hope.

Happy Days, Samuel Beckett’s modernist masterpiece, is the ultimate emblem of perseverance. In the iconic playwright’s lifelong pursuit to illuminate consciousness on stage, Beckett devised the character of Winnie: a tour de force of charm and grit, helplessly buried up to her waist in the ground. She endures the wearisome humdrum of endless, interchangeable days. And now, speaking to an audience who has faced a year of quarantine, the play endures too.

To commemorate the play’s 60th anniversary, the wild project and director Nico Krell are revitalizing this mammoth, mysterious work. In an exception allowed only during the global pandemic, the performance will be recorded and broadcasted online, delicately translated to the screen by a team of artists working on the cutting edge of digital theatre.This is the first (and due to licensing restrictions, likely only) time a theatrical production of this play will be released on film.

Happy Days

Features Tessa Albertson as Winnie

Presented by the wild project

In association with the Princeton University Fund for Irish Studies

Happy Days will be streamed online at Stellar from March 5-7th and 11-13th exclusively. Learn more at www.happydays.nyc.