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.
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