HAPPY DAYS
“In order to get any truth about myself, I must have contact with another person. The other is indispensable to my own existence, as well as to my knowledge about myself”.
Jean-Paul Sartre
“My choice, Happy Days at Dallas’ Kitchen Dog Theater, was an acting tour de force to rival anything I’ve seen in the past year, New York theatre-going included”.
Sarah Hart
American Theater
January 2003
“The humor in Happy Days can be bleak and cynical, but as performed by Kitchen Dog’s Shelley Tharp-Payton (under Bobbi Masters’ direction), the words also take on a new glaze of optimism”.
Elaine Liner
Dallas Observer
Sept 26, 2002
“Happy Days’ a fun, moving treat”
Mark Lowry
Star Telegram,
Sept 17, 2002
“Kitchen Dog makes Beckett’s bleak ‘Happy Days’ worthwhile”.
Tom Sime
Dallas Morning News
September 17, 2002
“…Tharp-Payton found humor and resonance in a play famous for its obscure, repetitive dialogue”.
Elaine Liner
Dallas Observer
January 2, 2003