Author: Clifford OdetsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Six Plays
Author: Clifford OdetsSix Plays by Clifford Odets
Author: Clifford OdetsSix Plays of Clifford Odets
Author: Clifford OdetsPublisher: Grove/Atlantic
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Six Plays of Clifford Odets. With a Pref
Author: Clifford OdetsCLASSICS Six Plays of Clifford Odets
Author: Clifford OdetsWaiting for Lefty & Other Plays
Author: Clifford OdetsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780802132208
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Six plays deal with unions, an anti-Nazi group, work, loneliness, the depression, and the American obsession with success.
Clifford Odets
Author: Robert Baird ShumanPublisher: New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Chapters on the plays, pointing out the allegorical overtones and demonstrating Odet's sympathy with the proletariat over the years.
Clifford Odets
Author: Margaret Brenman-GibsonPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557834577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
(Applause Books). Clifford Odets through his plays, which include "Waiting for Lefty" and "Awake" and "Sing!", was the champion of the oppressed, avenger for the poor. He and his plays, as presented by the influential Group Theatre, were the conscience of America during the Depression. Author Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a respected psychoanalyst and close personal friend, penned what is considered the classic biography of Odets. Based on exhaustive research, including access to his personal papers, plus her own insights into the man and his career, it is at last back in prtin. The book is richly annotated, with a thorough bibliography, personal chronology, a list of Odets' works, published and unpublished, and a section of rare photographs.
Three Plays by Clifford Odets
Author: Clifford OdetsWaiting for Lefty
Author: Clifford OdetsPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822212157
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
THE STORY: The action of the play is comprised of a series of varied, imaginatively conceived episodes, which blend into a powerful and stirring mosaic. The opening scene is a hiring hall where a union leader (obviously in the pay of the bosses) is trying to convince a committee of workers (who are waiting for their leader, Lefty, to arrive) not to strike. This is followed by a moving confrontation between a discouraged taxi driver, who cannot earn enough to live on, and his angry wife, who wants him to show some backbone and stand up to his employer; a revealing scene between a scheming boss and the young worker who refuses to spy on his fellow employees; a sad/funny episode centering on a young cabbie and his would-be bride, who lack the wherewithal to get married; a disturbing scene involving a senior doctor and the underpaid young intern (a labor activist) whom the doctor has been ordered to discharge; and, finally, a return to the union hall where the workers, learning that Lefty has been gunned down by the powers-that-be, resolve at last to stand up for their rights and to strike-and to stay off their jobs until their grievances are finally heard and acted upon by those who have so cynically exploited and misused them.