HAPPY DAYS – SAMUEL BECKETT

Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962. WINNIE: [ . . .] Well anyway – this man Shower – or Cooker – no matter – and the woman – hand in hand – in the other hands bags – kind of big brown grips – standing there gaping at me […] – What s she doing? he says – What s the idea? he says – stuck up to her diddies in the bleeding ground – coarse fellow – What does it mean? he says – What s it meant to mean? – and so on – lot more stuff like that – usual drivel – Do you hear me? He says – I do, she says, God help me – What do you mean, he says, God help you? (stops filing nails, raises head, gazes front.) And you, she says, what s the idea of you, she says, what are you meant to mean?