Happy Days: the theatre of the absurd

The play Happy Days, written by French playwright Samuel Beckett, is best known for a style called ‘Theatre of the Absurd’. Like in his other masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, Beckett takes a premise that sounds like it wouldn’t work on stage, then deconstructs it to its base components. And, just like in Waiting for Godot, Happy Days works.

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