Dag

The music theatre show Dag is based on Samuel Beckett’s intriguing play Happy Days. The stripped down scenography: Winnie is trapped to the waist inside a hill. Is it a burial mound forming? Fact is that her husband Willie is right behind the hill but they can hardly reach each other. The desperate need to communicate is key to Willie. Through talking, day after day, life goes by. Even though they can no longer reach each other, thy are still connected.

An image of two people who literally have become far apart but still belong together.

Dag lets us hear how Winnie desperately entrenches herself in the imperfection that is language. She’d rather talk than realise in silence how her loneliness and mortal fear are growing.