Awake & Sing
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Clifford Odets is perhaps best-known for penning the 1935 drama Waiting for Lefty.
That same year, he wrote Awake and Sing, a work that is deeply rooted in Odets' experience Great Depression, as well as his own family history. Odets' story of a Jewish-American family struggling to make ends meet wasn't particularly well-received in its day, but has since gone on to critical acclaim. Awake and Sing has particular relevance to our own day, where headlines are filled with news of unemployment and desperate survival.
Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre Company is producing the work through July 2009. In this interview, director Miles Potter and actor/Soulpepper co-founder William Webster reflect on Odets' play and its meaning for our own time.
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