Logic might insist that there are three kinds of plays—good, bad, indifferent—but Clifford Odets' "The Big Knife" is none of these. It represents the state of Odets' soul in 1949; it is exasperating and exciting.
As a mechanism for conveying a definite theme, idea or emotion, "The Big Knife" is misbegotten….
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