Spectacles des Finissants

Every second year, the National Theatre School’s graduating Directing students present their final personal projects, in which they collaborate with professional actors and designers, as well as with the School’s Production and Set and Costume Design students. These personal projects are a unique occasion for the graduating directors to embrace works, techniques and forms that they find equally compelling and challenging.

ABOUT THE PLAY

Carly Chamberlain chose Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days as her personal project because of the “dual experience of feeling really excited but also very scared” she went through when she rediscovered the play many years after initially reading it. “I could not immediately see how I would do it… So I chose to gravitate towards the unknown.” In Happy Days, Winnie, buried to her waist, follows her daily routine and prattles on to her mostly invisible and very taciturn husband, Willie. Her frequent refrain, as she roller-coasters between elation and anxiety, remains “Oh this is a happy day.” Happy Days features Lucy Peacock (Acting, 1983) and Al Goulem.