Staging Waiting for Lefty: Or, Agit-Prop in Ankara

The premiere of Clifford Odets’s Waiting for Lefty took place on January 6th, 1935 in New York. It was listed on the throwaway without an author’s name, simply as “presented by the cast of The Eagle Guy’” another play that was playing at the same time . Ticket prices ranged from 25 to 90 cents. The director Harold Clurman recalled what happened soon after the play’s beginning: The first scene […] had not played two minutes when a shock of detailed recognition struck the audience like a tidal wave. Deep laughter, not assent, a kind of joyous fervor seemed to sweep the audience toward the stage. The actors no longer performed […] Audience and actors had become one qtd. Gibson 315 .

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AĞARTAN, A., AKCAN, B., AYVALI, B., BİZCANLI, S., BAYAMLIOĞLU, İ., ÇEKMEZ, S., ÖRNEK, D., ÖZBEK, S., SELÇUK, E., YENİAY, A. A. (2004). Staging Waiting for Lefty: Or, Agit-Prop in Ankara. Journal of American Studies of Turkey, Sayı: 19, 117–126. https://ajindex.com/articles/717976

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