Looking up at Down: End of Summer February 25, 2010

In response to the current economic crisis, we reflect on an earlier era by presenting staged readings offering two very different perspectives on America in the throes of the Great Depression: Clifford Odet’s gritty story of the working class, Waiting For Lefty, and S.N. Behrman’s End of Summer, a semi-satirical examination of a well-to-do family’s challenges to assumptions of prosperity and power.

In collaboration with the UW Department of History, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and Simpson Center for the Humanities.