<\/a>Samuel Beckett\u2019s Happy Days was staged at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Saturday.
\nTranslated by Kabir Chowdhury and adapted and directed by Shuvashis Sinha, the play is a take on the absurdity of life, an investigation into meaning and meaninglessness of human existence.
\nAlthough the original play contains two characters, Shuvashis Sinha has transformed it into a monodrama.
\nThe play gives the audience a glimpse into the happenings in the life of a middle-aged woman named Winnie. The play begins with the sound of a bell that wakes Winnie up and ends with the sound of another bell that makes Winnie go to\u00a0sleep.
\nIn-between, what Winnie does, as Vladimir and Estragon do in Waiting for Godot, amounts to nothing. She opens her bag, brushes her teeth, looks herself in the mirror, and recounts her past, her first kiss, her love. In short, she does\u00a0nothing that can be called \u2018an action\u2019.
\nWhat she does excessively is talking. She talks of her life, her past, her fading beauty and what not, and time and again she speaks of happy days that are yet to come.
\n\u2018After we brought the play to stage, we staged it 21 times across the country within a year. But we were not able to stage it due to the Covid-19 crisis. We are staging the play at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy after a hiatus of two\u00a0years,\u2019 Shuvashis Sinha told New Age.
\n\u2018We will stage the 26th show of the production at the same venue on Sunday,\u2019 added Shuvashis Sinha.
\nJyoti Sinha, reputed for her acting in monodrama Kahe Birangana, plays the character of Winnie in the monodrama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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