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  • Performer Judith Lucy from the waist up, the lower half of her body buried in a small hill, on a stage.
  • Performer Judith Lucy from the waist up, the lower half of her body buried in a small hill, on a stage with a landscape background displayed on a screen behind her.
  • Performer Judith Lucy from the head up, the rest of her body buried in a small hill, on a stage.
  • Performer Judith Lucy from the waist up, her lower half buried in a small hill, on a stage.
Until 10 Jun

Happy Days

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$35 Weekend Rush Book between 12pm and 4pm on Thursdays to get $35 for same-week Friday and Saturday shows.
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The inimitable Judith Lucy takes on the role of Samuel Beckett’s Winnie, the determined optimist in the face of an endless existential crisis. Acclaimed as one of the best plays ever written, Happy Days is an absurdist, tragicomic tour-de-force – that just happens to be a pitch-perfect commentary on our times.

Making her Melbourne Theatre Company debut, actor and comedian Judith Lucy will team up with director Petra Kalive (Laurinda), making this Beckett masterpiece wildly funny, and not to be missed.

Hours

Date Times
Fri 2 Jun
  • 7.30pm - 9pm 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Sat 3 Jun
  • 2pm - 3.30pm 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  • 7.30pm - 9pm 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Mon 5 Jun
  • 6.30pm - 8pm 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Tue 6 Jun
  • 6.30pm - 8pm 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Wed 7 Jun
  • 2pm - 3.30pm 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  • 7.30pm - 9pm 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Thu 8 Jun
  • 7.30pm - 9pm 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Fri 9 Jun
  • 7.30pm - 9pm 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Sat 10 Jun
  • 2pm - 3.30pm 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  • 7.30pm - 9pm 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location

Southbank Theatre
140 Southbank Blvd
3006

Open in maps location for Southbank Theatre

Price and bookings

From $48 to $122

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Contact details

  • telephone number: 03 8688 0800
  • email address: info@mtc.com.au
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