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The Fight Back.(The Country Girl, Thurgood)(Theater review)
"Up, Odets!!" Clifford Odets cheered himself on in his diary in 1940, not long before he decamped from New York for Hollywood. "Or is it down, down, sunk into the self?" he added. At the time of that diary entry, Odets was in his prime: widely acknowledged as the theatrical voice of his era, he had written six plays in as many years. In the twenty-three years left to him--he died, of colon cancer, in 1963, at the age of fifty-seven--he wrote only four more. On his deathbed, according to Elia Kazan, Odets shook his fist in the air and said, "Clifford Odets, you have so much still to do." Odets was a connoisseur of his own collapse; his later plays turned the notion of his ...
- Odets' 'Country Girl' has a lot to say to audiences.
- Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH) October 26, 2006 700+ words
...the birth of Clifford Odets, Harvest Theatre of...production of his play The Country Girl. Harvest's artistic...was a departure for Odets. "He wrote a lot about...Quinlan said. "But The Country Girl is a romantic backstage...
- Clifford Odets
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1995 700+ words
...his own screenplays. Odets last reputable work was the play ŒThe Country Girl. which later became...Playwright Clifford Odets attempts to look smug...his own screenplays. Odets last reputable work was the play ŒThe Country Girl. which later became...
- Odets, Clifford
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND January 1, 1996 700+ words
...met with a tepid reception, Odets retrieved his reputation with...by Night (1941), in which Odets attempts to create a political...1949; London, 1953). The Country Girl (1950; London, as Winter...actor and his loyal wife. Odets's last play, The Flowering...
- Awake and paint! (playwright Clifford Odets' paintings)
- American Theatre Weales, Gerald September 1, 1996 700+ words
Clifford Odets's fantastical canvases unleash his undramatized...particularly well professionally for Clifford Odets, the playwright and screenwriter took up...Paul Klee, and a creator of art. Although Odets's painting, unlike his work for the stage...
- Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing!-- Where Dream and Disillusion Meet.(Culture)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) April 24, 2006 700+ words
...Lincoln Center's rediscovery of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! is a great opportunity...was a sensation for very good reason. Odets' thrilling, one-act agitprop play Waiting...actually had any effect on the country. Odets, still in his 20's when he wrote Awake...
- ODETS' 'AWAKE AND SING' NEAR-PERFECT
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Kevin Kelly, Globe Staff January 15, 1987 700+ words
AWAKE AND SING -- Play by Clifford Odets, directed by Ben Levit, set by James...Theater, through Feb. l. Although Clifford Odets was hailed too quickly in his short and...as just another polemicist's debut. Odets had been working with the Group Theater...
- Clifford Odets at Michael Rosenfeld.(New York, NY)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Stein, Judith December 1, 1996 700+ words
...when the celebrated playwright Clifford Odets (1906-1963) worked as a Hollywood screenwriter...public saw samplings in 1947 and 1948, when Odets had shows at J.B. Neumann's gallery in New York, but a half-century later, Odets's singular scenarios are a revelation...
- Tomei ignites Odets' `Rocket'; Duncan undone
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Ed Siegel, Globe Staff August 21, 1996 700+ words
...Joanne Woodward as director of Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon" at Williamstown...films, show that the sky -- or to keep Odets' analogy, the moon -- is the limit...some years ago, Woodward wisely shifts Odets' focus from Ben Stark, the affable dentist...