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Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets | |
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| Name: |
Clifford Odets | | Birth Date: |
July 18, 1906 | | Death Date: |
April 14, 1963 | | Place of Birth: |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | | Place of Death: |
Los Angeles, California, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
playwright |
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 Biography of Clifford Odets
855 words, approx. 2.9 pages
 A playwright, film scenarist, and director, Clifford Odets (1906-1963) was America's outstanding dramatist in the 1930s. His colloquial dialogue, vital ideological protests on behalf of human dignity, and feeling for the family were distinctive. Clifford... summary from source:
 Biography of Clifford Odets
9999 words, approx. 33.3 pages
 Clifford Odets is known primarily as a proletarian playwright of the 1930s, although this label is misleading. Odets's first few plays, which catapulted him virtually overnight to fame and affluence, reflect the experience of the Great Depression and hav... summary from source:
Biography of Clifford Odets
1603 words, approx. 5.3 pages
Born in Philadelphia to Louis J. and Pearl Geisinger Odets, Clifford Odets grew up in a Jewish section of the Bronx. Though Odets at times suggested that he was raised under the shadows of poverty, his father became a prosperous businessman in the 1920s,...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Waiting for Lefty Information
1,466 words, approx. 5 pages
<i>Waiting for Lefty</i> is a 1935 play by American playwright, Clifford Odets. Consisting of a series of related vignettes, the entire play is framed by the meeting of cab drivers who are planning a labor strike. The framing situation effectively...
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 The New York Observer Marisa Tomei to Star In New Eno Play
10/15/2007: 764 words, approx. 3 pagesMarisa Tomei will star in the premiere of Will Eno’s “Oh the Humanity and Other Good Intentions,” at the Off Broadway Flea Theater. Previews will begin Nov. 3 for a Nov. 29 opening. Tomei will star opposite Brian Hutchison in the collection of five short... summary from source:
The New York Observer Clifford Odets\'d5 Awake and Sing!\'d1 Where Dream and Disillusion Meet
4/23/2006: 1,224 words, approx. 4 pagesLincoln Center’s rediscovery of Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! is a great opportunity to see the 1935 play that transformed American theater. But whether the drama about a Jewish family struggling in the Bronx to survive the Depression lives up to its myth as a...
Literary Criticism
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 How a Playwright Triumphs (1961)
2,707 words, approx. 9 pages
In the excerpt below, Odets recalls the excitement and difficulties of his involvement with the Group Theatre and recounts the first performance of "Waiting for Lefty." This article was derived from an interview Odets gave in 1961, two years before his death.
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Critical Review by Joseph Wood Krutch
1,041 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review of "Till the Day I Die" and "Waiting for Lefty, "Krutch states that with these plays "Mr. Odets has invented a form which turns out to be a very effective dramatic equivalent of soap-box oratory."
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Critical Review by Grenville Vernon
1,015 words, approx. 3 pages
Vernon finds "Waiting for Lefty" energetically performed but expresses reservations about its political message.
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Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets | |
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