Press acclaim for Natalie Abrahami’s Happy Days at the Young Vic

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Genesis Fellow Natalie Abrahami’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days has received a host of glittering reviews from the national critics. The 5* production features Olivier Award-winning stage and screen actress Juliet Stevenson as Winnie, the hopeful heroine trapped in a scorched wasteland.

Telegraph *****
‘Stevenson and her director Natalie Abrahami make every very word count, and Vicki Mortimer’s extraordinary design gives this small-scale play a truly epic quality.’

Arts Desk *****
‘This is, in short, the works: 90 plus minutes of perfectly modulated near-monologue in which Stevenson’s infinite variety, channelled with no false note by wise young director Natalie Abrahami, proves that you can’t draw any conclusion about our heroine’s predicament

Times ****
‘I left the theatre walking on air… an evening to cherish’

FT ****
‘She [Stevenson] and director Natalie Abrahami find every ounce of comedy in the play.’

Guardian ****
‘a startling new production by Natalie Abrahami’

Whats on Stage ****
‘Director Natalie Abrahami has supervised this striking reinterpretation with great skill’

Huffington Post
‘I live for the times when theatre is this brave and this brilliant’

The play runs until 8 March 2014. To buy tickets click here.

For more information about the Genesis Foundation’s partnership with the Young Vic, click here.