Awake and Sing!

An immigrant family struggling during the Great Depression rants and raves at each other in their own depression ending in tragedy and humdrum. Clifford Odets was considered the spiritual successor to Eugene O'Neill and this play certainly fills that bill. The family is angry, tragic, suicidal and al......more

Odets has been called an American Chekhov, and for good reason! He writes in the same style--eccentric family, right-on lines, heavy on character, a challenge to actors, more character based than plot heavy. But without the Russian names, so it's much easier to grasp. I would love to see this stage......more

Sometimes you read a play that you wish you wrote. This is one of those plays for me. The dialogue cracks, the characters are rich and vibrant and the subject matter is authentic.......more

I gotta assume this is much better seen than read. The text feels neither contemporary enough to feel casual or elegant enough to enjoy for its poetry......more