HAPPY DAYS
A play by Samuel Beckett
A film by Nico Krell
Featuring Tessa Albertson as Winnie
Presented by wild project, in association with the Princeton University Fund for Irish Studies
NOTE: This film was designed for viewing on a television or laptop. If you have a smart tv, use the Stellar Tickets app for easy viewing.
The film will be available for 24 hours following the scheduled start time. For example, the performance will be available to the viewer from 8:00 pm – 11:59 pm EST the following day once purchased. You will be able to pause the video at your leisure within viewing hours.
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Performance Dates & Times
Friday, March 19th, 8:00 pm EST
Saturday, March 20th, 8:00 pm EST
Sunday, March 21st, 3:00 pm EST
Thursday, March 26th, 8:00 pm EST
Friday, March 27th, 8:00 pm EST
Saturday, March 28th, 3:00 pm EST
Tickets are free.
Recommended donation: $25
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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 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.This is the first (and due to licensing restrictions, likely only) time a theatrical production of this play will be released on film.
To commemorate the play’s 60th anniversary, New York’s 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 broadcast 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.
Featuring Tessa Albertson as Winnie. Directed by Nico Krell. Presented by wild project in the East Village, New York City, in association with the Princeton University Fund for Irish Studies.
Presented online via stream, March 5-7 & 11-13, 2021. Tickets are free—reservations required. Visit happydays.nyc
NOTE:The film will be available for 4 hours following show time. For example, the opening night performance will be available from 8:00–11:59pm eastern.