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	Waiting for Godot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Waiting for Godot (sometimes subtitled: tragicomedy in 2 acts) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, written in the late 1940s and first published in 1952.
		The play is in two acts, and in both of them the tramps Vladimir and Estragon wait in vain by the roadside for Godot, with whom they (perhaps) have an appointment.
		Clifford Odets' famous 1935 play Waiting for Lefty was about workers oppressed by capitalism, waiting for the salvation in the form of union organizer Lefty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waiting_for_Godot (1662 words)

	Waiting for Lefty Summary & Essays - Clifford Odets
		Waiting for Lefty was widely staged throughout the country and brought Odets sudden fame.
		As they wait, members of the strike committee address the workers, each telling the story of how he came to be involved in the union and convinced of the necessity for a strike.
		Modern audiences may find Waiting for Lefty's style and dogmatic politics strange and unfamiliar; it is rarely produced and is often characterized as an historical curiosity.
	www.enotes.com /pass?notes=waiting-lefty&typeID=59 (476 words)

	Waiting for Lefty (To Shut Up) \| Left Wing Politics in America - Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lefty himself was deeply satisfied with the perfection of his system.
		Lefty's mannerisms will antagonize anyone outside of his narrow confessional circle (and undoubtedly not a few within), and thus prevent him from persuading outsiders.
		Although I have long harbored a sentimental attachment to the term "left," I think it is time to recognize that Lefty and his ilk have robbed that term of whatever value may have accrued to it in the 20th or, more correctly, the 19th century.
	www.ralphmag.org /BQ/lefty2.html (506 words)

	IDS: High schools join dramatic forces (Arts, 02/15/2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Francesca Sobrer, theater director at Bloomington High School North, is producing "Waiting For Lefty" and said she is enthusiastic about the show's power to communicate to a diverse audience.
		"'Lefty' deals with the terrible conditions of labor in America before the union movement took hold," she said.
		"The tone of 'Waiting For Lefty' is very different from that of 'Awake.' It speaks with a pretty forceful voice, and in fact ends with a call for action, whereas 'Awake' is much more subtle and intimate," Rademacher said.
	www.idsnews.com /story.php?id=3195 (693 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: "Waiting for Lefty" is a labor-movement history lesson
		The first thing you notice in Capitol Hill Arts Center's production of "Waiting for Lefty" is the guy in a brown suit and felt hat lying on the floor of the theater, a tin cup by his side.
		And there you are, right in the furnace of anger, idealism and resistance where "Waiting for Lefty" was forged by Odets and the Group Theatre, during the nation's worst economic crisis ever.
		What still gives "Waiting for Lefty" theatrical force, however, is Odets' punchy, New York-ese dialogue, and his gift for translating political convictions into compelling mini-melodramas.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002159542_lefty25.html (592 words)

	Waiting For Lefty
		Wordsworth's retort came to mind after a recent performance of the New Theater J's updating of "Waiting for Lefty," Clifford Odets's labor-agitprop classic, which opened in 1935 to 22 curtain calls and a 45-minute standing ovation.
		The original "Lefty," written a year after a New York cabdriver strike, includes five scenes supporting the strike, interrupted here and there by vignettes demonstrating the equal unfairness of capitalism towards white-collar professionals.
		The folks at Theater J added six new scenes set in the present, collectively called "Still Waiting." These scenes demonstrate the persistence of the issues in the original play (the workforce today has about the same percent of union members, 13%, as it did in 1935).
	dcmdva-arts.org /archives/newj.htm (636 words)

	Waiting for Lefty Summary
		Clifford Odets's Waiting for Lefty is a vigorous, confrontational work, based on a 1934 stake of unionized New York cabdrivers.
		While the corrupt union leader Harry Fatt arrogantly toes to discourage the members from walking out, support for a strike is high, and the workers nervously await the arrival of the leader of the strike faction, Lefty Costello.
		More than most dramas, it is the product of a particular time and place—-for its overriding concern was to influence that time and place, not to create "immortal art," and certainly not to create diverting, light-hearted entertainment.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-waitinglefty/intro.htm (461 words)

	Waiting for Lefty (To Shut Up) \| Left Wing Politics in America - Part I
		In Lefty's scheme of things, the oil business is the sole determinant of American attention to any part of the universe, thus explaining U.S. concern with such likely pipeline sites as Haiti, Kosovo, the moon, the planet Mars, and next Afghanistan.
		Lefty's information undoubtedly came from sources akin to those collected in Rense.com.
		The connections between these assorted tentacles of the conspiracy were a little too complex for me to follow in detail, but they accounted for anything that happened, or indeed could happen, anywhere in our galaxy.
	www.ralphmag.org /BQ/lefty1.html (598 words)

	Encyclopedia: Waiting for Lefty
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		Waiting for Lefty was the first play by Clifford Odets to be produced (though not the first one written), and it is his best known work.
		It is a series of episodes dealing with various social classes, including doctors and taxi drivers.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Waiting-for-Lefty (148 words)

	PAL: Clifford Odets (1906-1963)
		Waiting for Lefty is best understood in the context of the 1930s decade of the Depression.
		Awake and Sing, 1935; Waiting for Lefty, 1935; Six Plays of Clifford Odets, 1935; Golden Boy, 1937; The Country Girl, 1951.
		Is Waiting for Lefty a universal play, or is it too tied to place (New York) and to time (the Great Depression of the 1930s)?
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap8/odets.html (272 words)

	Waiting for lefty
		We have a highly original proposition among the political organisations world-wide seeking to bring sensible arrangements to human society, and, when we say we want to “change the world”, we really mean just that.
		We are not in any way attached to any in the huge array of lefty groups which together can produce a recipe book to remedy all society's ills the size of which would put Culpeper's Herbal in the shade.
		Now we have another lefty following the path of Benn etc who must now be regarded as a clown among clowns – Tommy Sheridan.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/nov03/leftie.html (555 words)

	The Seattle Times: Theater & arts: Is time right to revisit classic "Waiting for Lefty"?
		Sheila Daniels' new staging of "Waiting for Lefty" opens Thursday at Capitol Hill Arts Center, with Jena Cane, left, and Peter O'Connor.
		Less than two minutes into the first scene of "Waiting for Lefty," recalled Group co-founder Harold Clurman in his memoir, "The Fervent Years," a "shock of delighted recognition struck the audience like a tidal wave.
		Sheila Daniels, the veteran Seattle director whose new staging of "Waiting for Lefty" opens next week at Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC), is well aware of that tumultuous initial reaction to the play.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/theaterarts/2002150176_lefty14.html (764 words)

	Aisle Say Seattle: Waiting For Lefty
		The opening night performance of Clifford Odets' first major work, "Waiting For Lefty" is the stuff of theatrical legend.
		Strike!" in the same way that 1935 audience did, we can still be moved by the simple longings of his characters, all of whom struggle in hopes of securing a better life for themselves and for their families.
		It is this universal theme of overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds that elevates "Lefty" out of the realm of mere political polemic and into that of dramatic tragedy.
	www.aislesay.com /WA-WAITING-LEFTY.html (677 words)

	Types of Drama Online Chapter 6 -- Waiting For Lefty
		Waiting for Lefty employs elements of epic theatre and agit-prop drama.
		Waiting for Lefty has been performed all over the world in the decades since its premiere.
		Who is Lefty and what does he represent?
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/barnettod_abl/chapter6/essay5/deluxe-content.html (156 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Waiting for Lefty
		After working as an actor for several years in New York City's avant-garde, left-wing Group Theatre repertory company, Clifford Odets produced his first play, "Waiting for Lefty," in 1935.
		While a universal call for power restored to the working class, "Waiting for Lefty" is very much of its time.
		At least WWII helped bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression, but "Waiting for Lefty" remains to this day a salient work on the ill effects of capitalism, and on the ways the common man can combat them.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Titles/lefty/about.html (461 words)

	'Waiting For Lefty' Social, cultural and historical factors
		Coursework and Essays: By Level: GCSE: Literature: Plays: 'Waiting For Lefty' Social, cultural and historical factor
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	Seattle Art Event Calendar - SeattleArtists.com - Cornish College Raisbeck Hall \| The Waiting for Lefty Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Waiting for Lefty, one penned by Odets, and the other by the Sophomore Theater Ensemble, alternating April 26
		Clifford Odets’ fervent Depression-era drama Waiting For Lefty was one of the theater’s greatest clarion cries for the rights of the working class.
		In 1935, the issues were joblessness, patriotism and having to swallow your integrity in order to advance in your job.
	www.seattleartists.com /main/calendar/display_event.asp?ID=671&region=1 (245 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureClifford Odets - Author Page
		It was, in fact, first produced in a small union hall; it was probably not, on the other hand, written in three nights or written as an entry in a contest with a $50 prize.
		More important about the play is the emotional heat which the young playwright was able to convey as well as the theatricality of the presentation.
		In part because it is a blatant “message” play which can be presented without the benefit of an elaborate stage or scenery, within a few months “Lefty” was being produced all over the country.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/odets_cl.html (650 words)

	Waiting Lefty - Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty
		Waiting Lefty - Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty
		In his play "Waiting for Lefty" Clifford Odets attempts to stir up the weary American public of the 1930s by providing examples of everyday people who, with some coaxing, rise above the capitalist mess they've inherited and take control of their destinies.
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	Fortune: Waiting for lefty to make trouble. (University of British Columbia professor Stanley Coren advocates rights of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When last we focused on the problems of left-handers (two weeks ago), we were heavily dependent on data supplied by Stanley Coren, professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia and author of The Left-Hander Syndrome.
		Coren is a leading assembler of fascinating data on the medical menaces and reduced life expectancy of portsiders in America, where, he says, lefty men live ten years less on average than starboarders.
		The reasons for this gap are not entirely clear, but Coren believes part of it is related to the unique stresses and accident hazards that come with...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:12246369&refid=holomed_1 (231 words)

	Amazon.com: Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Waiting for Lefty taxi cab drivers must contend with horrendous working conditions, including violence and intimidation from managment if they strike.
		After joining the American Communist Party in 1934, Odets used a taxi drivers' strike from that year as the inspiration for his first play, Waiting for Lefty.
		The play is an agit-prop that borrows heavily from Communist ideology and promotes collective action and unionization as the only means to tip the scales of power away from big business and toward the worker.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802132200?v=glance (1736 words)

	O'Neill Theater: News Releases
		The 1935 play by Clifford Odets, which focuses on a taxicab union strike, serves as a jumping–off point for other texts and music created and adapted by the 23 students of NTI’s Spring ’02 semester and presented as their final project.
		NTI Director David Jaffe said, “WAITING FOR LEFTY was chosen based on my observations of this semester’s students.
		The goal of the final project is to utilize their strengths as an ensemble and apply the skills they’ve learned in the past 14 weeks to uncharted territory.
	www.oneilltheatercenter.org /news/040902.htm (511 words)

	MelindaLeslie: WAITING FOR LEFTY and O PYRAMIDS.... ANYONE READ AND UNDERSTAND, PLEASE HELP!!
		I'm not sure if everyone else read O Pyramids and Waiting For Lefty, but I had trouble understanding O Pyramids and Waiting For Lefty, although I am sort of grasping Waiting For Lefty alittle better.
		For Waiting For Lefty, the main thing that sticks out is Joe and Edna fighting about Edna leaving Joe, and admiting to cheat on him, also the STRIKE at the end sticks out, but I messed up the middle details alot, probably because I read it immediately after the other play.
		She is trying to get him to stand up to his bosses for more money so they do more than just pay the rent, like feed their kids better.
	blogs.setonhill.edu /MelindaLeslie/002598.html (493 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Waiting on Lefty -- Jan. 09, 1956 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On a mountain top in Malaya last week, John Davis waited for an old wartime friend.
		Davis had slipped into Malaya by submarine during the Japanese occupation, fought as a guerrilla against the Japanese with the man he was now waiting for: Chin Peng, Chinese-educated leader of Malaya's Communists.
		After World War II had come a parting of the ways: after marching in the victory parade in London, Chin Peng had gone back to the jungle to continue his guerrilla war, this time against the British and the Malayans; Davis had become a senior district officer in the government of Malaya.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,866702,00.html (155 words)

	Brown Paper Tickets - Waiting For Lefty - by Clifford Odets
		Clifford Odets'; "Waiting for Lefty" tells the stories of everyday people in 1930's America, who rise above the capitalist mess they've inherited and take control of their destinies.
		Beginning and ending in a meeting hall, the story tells of the gradual movement towards a strike for a group of taxi drivers.
		In scenes played out in living rooms, a doctor's office, a chemical lab, and the Union hall, "Waiting for Lefty" is at once intensely private and personal, and unabashedly political.
	www.brownpapertickets.com /event/731 (257 words)

	Waiting for Lefty Summary & Essays - Clifford Odets
		Waiting for Lefty Summary & Essays - Clifford Odets
		Waiting for Lefty Summary & Study Guide by Clifford Odets
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	www.enotes.com /pass?notes=waiting-lefty&typeID=59 (476 words)

	RollingStone.com: Waiting for Lefty : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		People are waiting for someone who connects with their heart, for someone who doesn't judge them but who is ready to show the practical application of peace and love in everyday America.
		And what I try to do is draw forth that order that is there.
		And when that happens, people say, "Oh, that's a miracle." No, it was always there -- it was just waiting to be called forth.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/_/id/5938705 (2428 words)

	AllRefer.com - Group Theatre (Theater) - Encyclopedia
		Although never financially secure, the group was recognized as a vital theatrical force.
		It was at its height between 1935 and 1937, during which time it produced Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty, and Golden Boy, all by Clifford Odets.
		Although the group disbanded in 1941, its influence is still greatly felt; many of its members have become prominent actors, teachers, and directors.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/GroupThe.html (250 words)

	Odets, Clifford on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Turning his attention from acting to playwriting, Odets soon came to be regarded as the most gifted of the American social-protest dramatists of the 1930s.
		His first work for the Group, Waiting for Lefty (1935), a Marxian drama of the awakening and insurgency of the impoverished working classes, aroused immediate international attention.
		Awake and Sing (1935), his first full-length play and considered to be his best work, compassionately portrays the struggles and rebellion of a financially destitute Jewish family.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/Odets-C1l.asp (373 words)

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