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Waiting for Lefty

Waiting for Lefty

Odets, Clifford

Paperback

PlaysPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 0822212153
ISBN13: 9780822212157
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Published: Mar 20 2026
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The drama Waiting for Lefty is a series of scenes that blend into a powerful mosaic of the American working class. We begin in a hiring hall where a union leader (obviously on the payroll of the bosses) is trying to convince a committee of workers not to strike - as they await their leader (Lefty) to arrive. Through flashback and vignette, we then visit a discouraged taxi driver in confrontation with his wife, who wants him to show some backbone and stand up to his employer; an employee promised a major promotion in exchange for spying on a fellow worker; a young cabbie and his would-be bride who lack the wherewithal to get married; and a senior doctor charged with dismissing a bright, promising intern. All together, this look at the American working class of the 1930s is considered one of the most celebrated and significant plays of mid-century American theatre.

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