Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...family drama. Awake and Sing! tells the almost deceptively simple story of Bessie Bogo, a lower middle class Jewish mother striving to propel her two children to economic success during a time when even survival is difficult. Her pretentions to respectability lead her to engineer a loveless marriage between her pregnant daughter and a hapless recent immigrant. Her relentless drive for upward mobility causes her to heartlessly disapprove of her son's love for a peniless orphan. Their struggles are played out with an important group of other stereotypical characters all used artfully by Odets. The grandfather Jacob counters Bessie...
...rest of the cast, only Bonnie Franklin, as Gabriella, is clearly beyond her depth as she performs "I Sing of Love." Porter's most zestful and zany show is always welcome, particularly in a version as generally diverting as this. So "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" and get on out there...
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...
...sensible about his limits as a man. He no longer performs Nobody Knows You When You 're Down and Out. "I've really been down and out, and there has always been someone who helped. It is hard to sing that and be absolutely genuine about it." About the future he is modest too. Asked what he would like to be doing ten years from now, he replies mildly, "I would like to be alive...