Download or read book Six Plays by Clifford Odets written by Clifford Odets and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Six Plays of Clifford Odets written by Clifford Odets and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Six Plays of Clifford Odets written by Clifford Odets and published by Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1979 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Six Plays written by Clifford Odets and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clifford Odets written by Margaret Brenman-Gibson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Clifford Odets through his plays, which include "Waiting for Lefty" and "Awake" and "Sing!", was the champion of the oppressed, avenger for the poor. He and his plays, as presented by the influential Group Theatre, were the conscience of America during the Depression. Author Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a respected psychoanalyst and close personal friend, penned what is considered the classic biography of Odets. Based on exhaustive research, including access to his personal papers, plus her own insights into the man and his career, it is at last back in prtin. The book is richly annotated, with a thorough bibliography, personal chronology, a list of Odets' works, published and unpublished, and a section of rare photographs.

Download or read book Clifford Odets written by Robert Baird Shuman and published by New York : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1962 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters on the plays, pointing out the allegorical overtones and demonstrating Odet's sympathy with the proletariat over the years.

Download or read book Waiting for Lefty Other Plays written by Clifford Odets and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six plays deal with unions, an anti-Nazi group, work, loneliness, the depression, and the American obsession with success.

Download or read book Six Plays of Clifford Odets written by Clifford Odets and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clifford Odets Humane Dramatist written by Michael J. Mendelsohn and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Waiting for Lefty written by Clifford Odets and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1962 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The action of the play is comprised of a series of varied, imaginatively conceived episodes, which blend into a powerful and stirring mosaic. The opening scene is a hiring hall where a union leader (obviously in the pay of the bosses) is trying to convince a committee of workers (who are waiting for their leader, Lefty, to arrive) not to strike. This is followed by a moving confrontation between a discouraged taxi driver, who cannot earn enough to live on, and his angry wife, who wants him to show some backbone and stand up to his employer; a revealing scene between a scheming boss and the young worker who refuses to spy on his fellow employees; a sad/funny episode centering on a young cabbie and his would-be bride, who lack the wherewithal to get married; a disturbing scene involving a senior doctor and the underpaid young intern (a labor activist) whom the doctor has been ordered to discharge; and, finally, a return to the union hall where the workers, learning that Lefty has been gunned down by the powers-that-be, resolve at last to stand up for their rights and to strike-and to stay off their jobs until their grievances are finally heard and acted upon by those who have so cynically exploited and misused them.

Download or read book The Country Girl written by Clifford Odets and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1951 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The title character is Georgie Elgin, a faithful, forgiving woman, whose long years of devotion to her actor husband, Frank, have almost obliterated her own personality. The life of an actor's wife is not as glamorous as many imagine. So

Download or read book Three Plays by Clifford Odets written by Clifford Odets and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.

Download or read book Ragged Individualism written by Gholamreza Sami and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a study of the portrayal of America in selected social and political plays of the 1930s and a scrutiny of the intellectual response of the playwrights to the American way of life in the light of socio-political and economic issues in that decade.

Download or read book The Group Theatre written by Mark Connelly and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history and influence of the Group Theatre, the most significant acting company in America. Founded during the Great Depression, the Group presented the first plays of Clifford Odets, Sidney Kingsley, and William Saroyan, and launched the careers of Franchot Tone, John Garfield, Elia Kazan, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Martin Ritt, and Luther Adler. The intense realism of their performances inspired generations of writers, actors, and directors in both theater and film. After the Group closed, its former members directed or produced the Broadway plays Brigadoon, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, Camino Real, Bus Stop, The Music Man, Equus, and Yentl. In Hollywood, Group alumni produced, directed, or starred in the award-winning films On the Waterfront, East of Eden, Twelve Angry Men, Hud, Fail-Safe, 1776, Serpico, Network, Norma Rae, and The Verdict. Four of the nation's best-known acting teachers--Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Robert Lewis, and Stella Adler--came from the Group. The studios they established remain the most highly regarded acting schools in the world, with venues on four continents.

Download or read book Clifford Odets Playwright poet written by Harold Cantor and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study takes a different approach to the work of poet-playwright Clifford Odets. Rather than focusing on biographical and political factors surrounding his works, Cantor provides a close reading of 11 of Odets' plays as a whole, grounding his study within an analysis of themes common to each text. While granting emphasis to Odets' poetic style, Cantor gives due notice to Odets' achievements as both mythmaker and voice of the Jewish middle class. Included are reprints of 'Sum and Substance, ' an interview with the writer conducted by the late Herman Harvey, and a 1998 interview by Cantor with actress/director Joanne Woodward, who has directed recent revivals of four of Odets' plays. Cantor also gives an account of other noted productions in order to illuminate the ways in which this visionary's style has influenced contemporary American theatre. Drawing both from previous works and his own research, Cantor presents a quintessential study of a prolific and influential literary artist. It will prove a useful and timely volume for scholars of theatre and American social history alike.

Download or read book A Critical Introduction to Twentieth Century American Drama Volume 1 1900 1940 written by C. W. E. Bigsby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-07-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene O'Neill - Clifford Odets - Left-wing theatre - Black drama - Thornton Wilder - Lillian Hellman - Luigi Pirandello - Arthur Miller.

Download or read book The Big Knife written by Clifford Odets and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1976 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: We witness the last few days of Charlie Castle, a top movie star and an idealist, whose years of compromise with his beliefs for the sake of a Hollywood career have resulted in the slow destruction of his personality. We see his struggle