OTTAWA -- You can't blame Samuel Beckett for having a dim view of life. The Irish playwright, who died in 1989, saw the horrors of war and the existential despair of modern life, which he later dramatized in Waiting For Godot, the dismal comedy about two absurd clowns stuck in limbo. He did it again in 1961, the year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, with another play for two clowns called Happy Days, which opened at the National Arts Centre on Friday.
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