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Happy Days, a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, was first performed in 1961. It tells the story of Winnie, a woman who is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth and spends the entirety of the play talking to herself and her husband, Willie, who is mostly offstage. Happy Days is a darkly comic exploration of the human condition, focusing on themes of isolation, existential despair, and the power of language. 

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