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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companies and the owners of Standard Oil? Somehow, on the critical matters, the men of wealth and power and privilege in America make the decisions of life and death for everyone else. The program notes reprinted this quote from Howard Zinn's Moratorium Day speech and the play gives the answer...
...cradle will rock and hopefully the bough will break, explains Larry Foreman, a union organizer in the play. But Blitzstein never quite answers that question we've all been wondering about: how do we break the bough...
WHEN THIS PLAY was first written as part of a government-funded WPA program to support artists, the Washington powers-that-be cut off funds for the performance. The theatre scheduled for the opening night performance was sealed to the audience and actors. While the audience stood outside the theatre, a member of the cast found another unoccupied theatre and the play was presented there...
...Cradle Will Rock was a hard play to kill. The need still exists for people to wrest control of their lives from the governments and businesses and the men who pander themselves to money and power. This Saturday, the memory of men like Blitzstein will be honored. "One day when everybody gets together" says Larry Foreman in the final scene...
...current production's attempts at updating the play do at times make the comparisons seem a little forced, but Blitzstein's original is too strong for this to be a serious drawback...