Waiting for Lefty - And Other Plays

Klappentext Includes Awake and Sing!, Till the Day I Die, Paradise Lost, Golden Boy, and Rocket to the Moon. Zusammenfassung One of the most celebrated and significant plays of the modern American Theatre. The action of the play is comprised of a series of varied, imaginatively conceived episodes, that 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.

Product details

• Authors: Odets, Clifford Odets, Odets Clifford
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.1994
• EAN: 9780802132208
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3220-8
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 209 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Grove Press; Grove Atlantic
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; USA, United States of America, USA, c 1970 to c 1979, Plays, Playscripts, EVENT / Summer Vacation Reading, Relating to adulthood, American Theatre;unions;employer;worker;intern;rights;strike