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In "Happy Days," she's the one who's fastened, and I wish I could say it has the same urgency. First of all, it's by Samuel Beckett , the Nobel prize-winning playwright who wrote "Waiting for Godot," the show whose title has become a common metaphor for "doing nothing" or "waiting pointlessly," or some other phrase of idleness that would make thrill seekers want to hibernate for the winter. And as much as I love theater, and think it's worth reading and studying and discussing and most of all seeing , I will never for the life of me understand the people who watch a show like "Happy Days" which is almost a one-woman show in which Fiona Shaw's character begins the play buried in earth from the hips down and ends it buried from the neck down and leap to the rafters at the end like they've just won the lottery. Maybe I'm just turning curmudgeonly, but I suspect snobbery. I suspect some people wanted to be seen as having been so appreciative of the great Beckett that they could hardly contain themselv (blogs.nypost.com....s/2007/03/)
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