REVIEW: At Bridge Street Theatre, ‘Happy Days’ offers an elegant, whimsical take on Beckett’s absurdist classic

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Bridge Street Theatre’s stylish, often whimsical production of Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” features an elegant Roxanne Fay as Winnie, a woman finding endurance and meaning while buried in earth.

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