by Clifford Odets
Directed by Griffin Stanton Ameisen
Clifford Odets is considered the most prolific American social protest dramatist of the thirties. In 1939, Odets wrote of his play, "let them stand, crudities and all, as a small parade of a young talent discovering and shaping itseld." Set in the Great Depression Waiting for Lefty uses archetypal characters during a taxi strike to comment on the state of Capitalism in America and those it seems to leave behind. 1930's or present day? You decide.