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Awake and Sing! is a drama play written by American playwright Clifford Odets. The play was initially produced by The Group Theatre in 1935. Summary and characters. The play is set in The Bronx borough of New York City, New York, in 1933.
- Clifford Odets
- February 19, 1935
- 1935
- The Bronx, 1933
Sep 3, 2020 · A conventionally structured three-act drama, Awake and Sing! takes its title from a line in Isaiah 26:19: “Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust.” Set in the Berger’s Bronx tenement apartment, the play explores the family’s relation-ships, ambitions, and frustrations with intensity but also with humor.
Synopsis. “Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust, and the earth shall cast out the dead.”. - Isaiah 26:19. In a cramped Bronx apartment in Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing!, the Berger family laughs, cries, yells, and dreams of a better life. Bessie wants the family to survive, Jacob wants the working man to overthrow his capitalists ...
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Apr 18, 2006 · April 18, 2006. Life begins tomorrow for the anxious souls inhabiting an overstuffed Bronx apartment in Clifford Odets's "Awake and Sing!" Or was it over long before yesterday?
by Clifford Odets. Summary. PDF Cite Share. Stephen Wamaitha. | Certified Educator. Last Updated September 5, 2023. This 1935 play tells the story of a family influenced by communist and...
Generally considered Clifford Odets' finest play, Awake and Sing! was originally performed by the notable Group Theater on Broadway in 1935. By turns starkly dramatic and vividly comic,...
Awake and Sing! centers on the Bergers, a Jewish family living in the Bronx. The de facto head of the clan is Bessie, a tough-minded, difficult woman who knows her husband Myron is a weakling and that she has to make all the big decisions that keep her household afloat.
