Cork Midsummer review: Siobhán McSweeney an ideal Winnie in Happy Days

Returning to her hometown, the Derry Girls star is superb in Samuel Beckett's bleak play
Cork Midsummer review: Siobhán McSweeney an ideal Winnie in Happy Days

Siobhán McSweeney in Landmark Productions' Happy Days. Picture: Patrick Redmond 

Happy Days, Cork Opera House, ★★★★☆

Buried beyond her waist in sand, baking in the hot sun. Just an occasional word from her newspaper-reading husband by way of conversation, and only the contents of her handbag for distraction. All overshadowed by a sense that things are only going to get worse.

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