39872Happy Days by Samuel Beckett<p style="line-height: 150%" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="line-height: 12pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black">Capital T Theatre Company presents</span></strong></p><div align="center"> </div><p style="line-height: 12pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black">Happy Days</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black"><strong> </strong>by Samuel Beckett</span> </p><p style="line-height: 12pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black">Starring Katherine Catmull</span></strong></em> </p><p style="line-height: 12pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black">October 4-20 </span></strong></p><p style="line-height: 12pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black"></span></strong></p> <p style="line-height: 150%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">A middle-aged woman, Winnie, finds herself increasingly submerged in a mound of earth. An incurable optimist, she uselessly follows the daily routine of her life. Over the passage of time, her few possessions gradually dwindle, and her only human companion becomes more distant. HAPPY DAYS, described as one of Nobel Laureate Samuel Beckett’s “most cheerful” plays, explores humanity’s tragic struggle for hope and the cruel humor of time and existence, themes for which Beckett (WAITING FOR GODOT) is best known and celebrated. </span></p> <p style="line-height: 150%" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" style='position:absolute; margin-left:183pt;margin-top:6.55pt;width:431.25pt;height:558pt;z-index:-1'> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg" o:title="letterhead" blacklevel="23593f"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><span style="position: absolute; z-index: -1; margin-left: 244px; margin-top: 9px; width: 575px; height: 744px"><img src="file:///C:/Users/Mark/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg" border="0" width="575" height="744" /></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><br /> Capital T is proud to present Beckett’s final full length play, not seen on an Austin stage in over 20 years, in this limited engagement of nine performances. Capital T’s production of HAPPY DAYS features two of Austin’s finest veteran actors, Katherine Catmull and Travis Dean, under the direction of Capital T Artistic Director, Mark Pickell.</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><a href="http://www.capitalt.org" target="_blank"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black">www.capitalT.org</span></strong></em><br /></a></p><p style="line-height: 150%" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><br /> <br /> <strong>About the Cast<br /> Katherine Catmull </strong>is a member of Hyde Park Theatre and the Refraction Arts Project. She has received numerous Austin Critics Table and B. Iden Payne nominations and awards for acting. The Austin Chronicle named Katherine a "Most Valuable Player" in their guide to Austin stage actors citing her ability to "embody a role so effortlessly, so comprehensively, it may be more poetry than craft." Some of her recent credits include I/O (Refraction Arts Project), THRUSH (Salvage Vanguard Theatre), THE WATER PRINCIPLE (Hyde Park Theatre), FLESH AND THE DESERT (University of Texas), SPIN (Refraction Arts Project), QUAKE (Hyde Park Theatre), HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE (State Theatre), and DINNER WITH FRIENDS (State Theatre).<br /> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /> <!--[endif]--></span></p> <p style="line-height: 150%" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Travis Dean</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> was last seen on the stage in the much acclaimed UP IN THE OLD HOTEL (Refraction Arts Project), for which he won a B. Iden Payne award for his portrayal of the colorful Joe Gould. He also recently created the fight choreography for MY FAVORITE YEAR (Zilker Summer Musical). When he’s not acting or creating fight choreography, he works for the Texas Film Industry as a prop-maker among other things. </span></p><p style="line-height: 150%" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><a href="http://www.capitalt.org" target="_blank"> <em><strong><span style="font-size: 34pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black">www.capitalT.org</span></strong></em></a></p>Capital T Theatre Company presents<br />Happy Days<br />By Samuel Beckett<br />Directed by Mark Pickell<br />Starring Katherine Catmull and Travis Dean<br />October 4 – 20th, 2007, <br />Thursday – Saturday at 8:00 p.m.<br />Hyde Park Theatre<br />511 West 43rd Street (43rd and Guadalupe)<br />Tickets $15–$25 (sliding scale); reserve online at www.capitalT.org or 512-479-PLAY
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http://do512.com/event/2007/10/04/happy-days-by-samuel-beckett.xmlThursday 10/04/0720071005T010000Z/20071020T050000Zfalse026.069Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:00:00 -0500Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:00:00 -05009THUhttp://www.capitalt.orghttp://s3.amazonaws.com/dostuff-production/photos/30311/web_sq_90.jpgHyde Park Theatre42Hyde Park Theatre
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AustinTX78751hydeparktheatrehttp://s3.amazonaws.com/dostuff-production/photos/128805/hydeparkLogo2sm_poster.pnghttp://www.hydeparktheatre.comhttp://www.capitalt.orghttp://s3.amazonaws.com/dostuff-production/photos/30311/web.jpgThis may well be the most "upbeat" of Beckett's plays, but it's every bit as existential, as focused on death and on life as something we endure as we progress inexorably toward our ultimate fate, as any of his bleaker works.<a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A549271">more at austinchronicle.com</a>Samuel Beckett's full-length play follows a middle aged woman, her diminishing relationships and her dwindling possessions. <a href="http://www.austin360.com/calendar/events2/etc/userEventDisplay.jspd?eventStatus=Approved&eventid=143407">read more at austin360.com</a>