History
The theatre company that Odet's would found with several other artists in 1931
What is the Group Theatre
A severe, global economic downturn that lasted from 1929 to 1939, marked by high unemployment, poverty, and bank failures
What is The Great Depression
The play containing a series of vignettes that highlight the struggles of the working class during a taxi strike in the Great Depression
What is Waiting for Lefty
What is artwork
The play company in the Bronx that Odet's would work with in the infancy of his career, often playing romantic roles
What is The Drawing Room Players
The organizations of workers that collectively bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions
What is a Union
The play that follows the story of a struggling, three-generation Jewish family in the Bronx during the Great Depression
What is Awake and Sing!
One of Odet's favorite musicians was an influential Austrian composer in the Classical period, known for his musical genius
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clifford Odets' second wife, who made an appearance in Odets' play Golden Boy. They would have two children together
What is Betty Grayson
The people who work for a living, often in manual labor or service jobs, typically having a four-year college degree or less
What is The Working Class
The play that follows Joe Bonaparte, a talented violinist who abandons his dream for the brutal world of professional boxing to gain money and power
What is Golden Boy
A leading French Romantic writer known for his novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables, who was notably one of Odet's favorite authors
Who is Victor Hugo
The highly successful actress who won two Oscars for Best Actress, and who was married to Clifford Odets from 1937 to 1940, before they divorced
What is Luise Rainer
What are Familial Relationships
A play that retells the biblical story of Noah and the Ark through the lens of a modern Jewish family
What is The Flowering Peach
Odet's was known to inspire a 1991 film about a 1940s New York playwright who moves to Hollywood to write for a major studio but is overcome by writer's block
What is Barton Fink
One of Clifford Odets' children, who is an American clinical psychologist and writer
What is Walt Odets
The challenges a business or family can face, especially during such times like the Great Depression
What is a Struggle for Economic Survival
A play written in 1935, focusing on the struggles of German communists who are resisting the rise of the Third Reich
What is Till the Day I Die
A biography written about Odets by Margaret Brenman-Gibson, regarded as one of the most detailed accounts of his life
What is Clifford Odets, American Playwright: The Years from 1906-1940