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In *Happy Days*, Samuel Beckett stages a stark tableau: a woman gradually buried within a mound of earth, first up to her waist then to her neck, while a man circumnavigates her. The play interrogates the tenuous connections that bind individuals to one another and to the universe, reexamining intimacy, isolation, and the paradox of proximity within a minimalist dramatic setting.
First publish date: 1961
Genre: Drama & Plays/Drama
Authors: Samuel Beckett
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