Awake and Sing!
Awake and Sing! Alternative Title: I Got the Blues
Author: Clifford Odets
First Performance: 1935, New York
Published: 1935
Genre: Pol. drama in 3 acts
Setting: Bronx apartment, 1930s
Cast: 7m, 2f
Bessie Berger is a Jewish matriarch who presides over her impoverished and unhappy family during the Depression. Her ineffectual husband Myron is a sententious windbag, her father Jacob is a Marxist dreamer, her cynical son Ralph lacks sense of direction, and her daughter Hennie loves an embittered war cripple, Moe Axelrod, but becomes pregnant by a stranger. Bessie makes Hennie marry a recent immigrant with reasonable prospects. One year later, the family are more miserable than ever: Ralph blames his mother for trapping Hennie in an unhappy marriage, and their poverty is felt more...
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