[.ca] Samuel Beckett's Happy Days (Broadway Theatre Archive)

Essential and timeless: a perfect marriage of two artists:
One of Beckett's most profound and moving plays is also one of his funniest. Irene Worth, one of the world's greatest stage actresses, embodies one of theater's greatest female roles with both a lyrical tenderness and a deep sensuality.There is, in fact, nothing overblown or stagy about her performance: Worth is the quintessential Winnie. Famous for her deeply intelligent interpretations and blessed with a marvelously resonant voice, she is the ideal actress for a part that requires so little physicality and so much vocal depth. She understands every word of Beckett's text, and conveys her understanding with every breath she takes. To say she is too "theatrical" and to ridicule the pronunciation of her name are pitifully inaccurate and pitifully beside the point. The recording of her performance in this great play is a marvelous document to possess.

Well...:
... I saw this production at the Public many years ago and the "great" Miss Worth (Irene-y, as she was pretentiously called) didn't seem to understand a single word of what she was saying. Even the simplest lines were delivered in a bloated actorese. Broadway acting at its most self-important and awful. How could the dvd possibly be any good?