Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sitting down at the piano, Sweet Pie proceeds to sing and talk his way through some boogie tunes. All the time, he is thoughtfully turned three-quarters toward the audience--legs stomping and kicking. "Every loving day doesn't end in a loving way." Sweet Pie turns to a girl in the audience: "You finally went drinking in a joint with class, and all you got was a middle-age ass! Woooooooooo...
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...
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...
...disillusionment practically unimaginable to their progenitors, disillusionment with the shallowness of life printed on a great big safe stack of dollar bills. Perhaps today as a different kind of economic squeeze threatens the comfortable life that endangered stack provides, one can sense again the conflict of Awake and Sing!, the conflict 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...
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...