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Awake and Sing! is playing at the Loeb, and the Summer School Repertory does a very fine job with a very difficult piece of material. Clifford Odets wrote this bit of social drama back in 1935, and its all about the drams and frustrations of the Depression. Morris Carnovsky, who starred in the play's original production, has come up to Cambridge to recreate the role of Jacob, and that alone is reason enough to see the show. The other performers complement Carnovsky's brilliant portrayal of the philosophic uncle, and director John Sherin manages to bring Odets's spirit...
...same year that Clifford Odet's Awake and Sing! was first produced in New York, the author said he wrote the play because, "I was sore at my whole life." Odets, perhaps the foremost American leftist playwright of the thirties, blends this rebellious anger masterfully with his social concerns in the tragicomedy of a family struggling "for life amidst petty conditions" during the hard times of the Depression...
Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets's Depression-era drama of frustrated hopes, begins its first weekend of performances at the Loeb tonight at 8. The play itself can be pretty heavy going at times, but the Summer School Repertory Theater reportedly does fairly well with some difficult material. Liz Samuels's review of the production appears on page two. Whatever she says about it, she's right. Two shows tomorrow at 5 and 9. Weekend seats cost...
Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets's social chronicle of life in Depression era America, is the Harvard Summer School Repertory Theater's second offering of the season and it has its premier Wednesday night. The play itself is brilliant, but it's long and extremely difficult to perform well. The Summer Rep has set itself up for a real challenge here; this has to work as more than just nostalgia if it's to be worth the time and the effort. The Crimson's review will appear in Friday's edition. Wednesday's and Thursday's performances begin...
...with Mullen President Robert Bennett, Hunt conducted an investigation of Senator Edward Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick, persuaded Lobbyist Dita Beard to issue a statement intended to clear the Nixon Administration of any impropriety in its dealing with ITT, and estimated the cost of a wiretap of Author Clifford Irving on behalf of Howard Hughes. CIA officials denied any involvement in these activities...