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Happy Days

john baker, February 23rd, 2014. No comments. Filed under literature, reviews, theatre.

We were at the Young Vic yesterday to see Juliet Stevenson as Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days. Buried up to her middle in act one, and up to her neck in act two, Winnie is involved in a relentless battle against solitude and silence.

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