The Guardian offers its list of grand stage roles for women
The Guardian has published an online gallery of leading ladies in dramatic on-stage productions, all photographed by Tristram Kenton. Included among them is Fiona Shaw's performance of Winnie in the 2007 production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days:
Particularly as he aged, Samuel Beckett wrote some extraordinary roles for women – none more so than in this almost-one-woman show, in which a senior performer must enact the human tragicomedy while buried first to her waist, then to her neck in sand.
