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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...
...providing a fluent, entertaining piece of theater. The fast and funny domestic dialogue, like the banter in any household, conveys surprisingly complex meaning and tension through its trivial irrelevance and presents a challenge of interpretation which the production meets. Dealing with an obvious though not unambiguous "message play," the Loeb group meets the problem of getting the message across without hammering it in. Odets-a short-term Communist Party member who quit because of the party's doctrinaire artistic strictures-may have been, as he later said, a naive radical. But the play's point is, if simple, nonetheless vibrant...
...between ambition for security within the system and the risks of social change. If it is true as the magazines tell us that students today worry about and struggle only for security careers in what they perceive as a frightening economic environment, we can be inspired by the admirable Loeb portrayal of Ralph Berger's tentative growth and determination during the bottom of the Depression, "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust," Jacob quotes Isaiah, "and the earth shall cast out the dead...
...Works by Brahms, Carter and Mozart at Sanders Theater in Memorial Hall. Tickets available at the Loeb box office, 64 Brattle St.(864-2630) or the Holyoke Center ticket office (495-2663), and at the door. Admission...
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...