The Village Voice, February 23rd, 2005
HAPPY DAYS By Samuel Beckett Classic Stage Company 136 East 13th Street 212-279-4200 Finding herself in a hole, Delaria plays Beckett for laughs BURIED TREASURE The Worth Street Theater Company's production of Beckett's Happy Days plays out like a contest between two aesthetics, even two world views. On the one hand there is Beckett's high-modernist fascination with the minutiae of agonized self-consciousness, with the heroic and hilarious efforts of terminally ordinary people to ward off the terror of their meaningless existences and entropie condition. On the other hand there is the p...
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