Deborah Warner is one of our most celebrated theatre and opera directors, receiving a CBE last year in the Queen’s birthday honours list.
Before Christmas, she caused a stir with her staging for Opera North of Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine, a 45 minute monologue in which a soprano spends the performance singing into a telephone.
Deborah joins Martha to talk about her latest production, Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days – in which the main character Winnie, played by Fiona Shaw, spends the entire play stuck in a mound, buried at least up to her waist.
Happy Days is on at The National Theatre in London until March 1st
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