Thursday, 10/9/2025
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“Happy Days”: A tragedy, but also incredibly comical, and it is here that the political dimension of Beckett's work is revealed. The audience witnesses a last hour. The cause of the catastrophe remains hidden, but one thing is certain: Humanity resigns itself and affirms its downfall. Absurd theater, detached from space and time and the inevitability of an end, explores the contradictions of human existence.

Winnie’s bulging bag repeatedly provides reason not to succumb to silence and muteness. Even Willie’s barely perceptible signs of life are ecstatically noted by Winnie. Everything is better than rotting in silence. Thus, she meanders and monologizes, holding the unwavering will to hope against the fact that there is no escape for the two of them in this desert landscape called life.
Despite the constant deterioration of circumstances, Winnie, the main character, persists in an unwavering, almost absurd optimism, for: “It will be a happy day again!”
The Irish writer Samuel Beckett received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 and is considered one of the key figures of modernism and absurd theater. “Happy Days,” one of the most radical theater texts of the twentieth century, premiered in New York in 1961 and addresses human survival through adaptation to seemingly unbearable living conditions. Shortly after its premiere, the British daily newspaper “The Independent” included the play in its list of the “40 best plays of all time.”

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