Happy Days

Pamela Rabe returns to Sydney Theatre Company in Samuel Beckett’s towering masterpiece.

An extraordinary theatrical collaboration

Stage and screen icon Pamela Rabe (The Children, The War of The Roses, The Lost Echo) immerses herself in one of the greatest roles ever written, Happy Days’ eternal optimist, Winnie. Conceived and directed by award-winning theatre designer Nick Schlieper – Lighting Designer on The Picture of Dorian Gray, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Dracula – and Rabe herself, this production of Beckett’s classic play is a unique creative offering and a once-in-a-lifetime theatrical experience.

Somewhere in a dreamlike wasteland, Winnie is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth. The sun beats down on her, relentlessly. She is unable to see her husband Willie (a man of few words), who she chatters to and prompts for affection and approval. Undaunted, she continues to celebrate each happy day.