Happy Days

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Under the best of circumstances, Samuel Beckett's Happy Days is a difficult play to sit through. The script is basically a two-act monologue delivered by Winnie, a woman in the process of being buried alive. Occasionally, her husband Willie chimes in. There is little action in the play; its drama results from the shades of meaning and comic absurdity that the actress playing Winnie is able to bring to Beckett's existential classic. In the Worth Street Theater Company's revival, presented by Classic Stage Company, the role is played by Lea DeLaria -- and to say that she's miscast is an understatement.

DeLaria's Winnie never seems quite real. While I'm not expecting naturalism from a Beckett [...]