Happy Days review " Maxine Peake is transfixed by climate chaos
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester Beckett's tragicomedy is deftly retuned for an age of ecological anxiety and mounting plastic wasteCentre stage, a barren mound of earth. At its edges, a muddle of plastic detritus burrowing into the dirt. In the Royal Exchange's new production of Happy Days, Winnie is surrounded not just by immovable soil, but by the souvenirs of her own destruction. This is Beckett for an era of c…