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Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odet's telling account of one family's hopes and woes during the Depression, is finishing up its run at the Loeb. The script is really quite moving and the production is excellent. The show may even help you relate to your parents when they try to tell you how tough they had it during the 30s; if you can match Odets's level of sympathy, you're off to a good start. Morris Carnovsky, who recreates his role from the original 1935 production, is not to be missed. But you better catch him fast because...
...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...
...Harvard Summer School Repertory Theater's lively, straight-forward production, mounted in an excellent and unobtrusive set and supplied with equally good properties and costumes, makes poignant again the hardship of that era. Delivering Odet's studied commonplace speech with all the humor it deserves and the sense of tragedy that ultimately underlies it, the production imparts the old-fashioned feeling of uplift the play was undoubtedly meant to convey...
Died. Marie Odet Jean Armand de Chapelle de Jumilhac, 76, Due de Richelieu, the title conferred by Louis XIII on his Prime Minister, Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, who passed it on to a grandnephew, Jean de Vignerot, ancestor of the last Due de Richelieu; after a month's illness; in Manhattan...
...Country Girl, Clifford Odet's newest play, concerns a drunken actor (Paul Kelly) seeking a return to stardom. Both Kelly and Uta Hagen give brilliant performances in this drama. (Lyceum...