Happy
Days
Winnie half gone
to earth, only her head then.
Willie, avid
reader of obits and ads and smut, on the other side.
Comforts of a
day, of another day. Her prayer in the one, her song in the other (a music box
before).
Incidental
measures, the odd reminiscence, an anecdote in two parts, a story.
Willie in his hole
more or less, Willie to her.
And all along,
the sun in “stony places”.
Rosaleen Linehan
(end credits give her director’s name at the Gate Theatre in this play, Karel
Reisz), Richard Johnson.
Another credit
identifies the location as Tenerife, Canary Islands.