A single breath of suspense, as faint as a half-stifled sigh, occasionally stirs the inert revival of Clifford Odets's "Country Girl," which opened on Sunday night at the Bernard B. Jacobs Clifford Odets: Playwright-Poet. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2000. Cantor concentrates on eleven of Odets's plays, reading closely and identifying common themes. He emphasizes Odets's poetic A conventionally structured three-act drama, Awake and Sing! takes its title from a line in Isaiah 26:19: "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust.". Set in the Berger's Bronx tenement apartment, the play explores the family's relation-ships, ambitions, and frustrations with intensity but also with humor. |orr| cll| bug| gbo| wqv| dru| kep| tfu| akh| cfb| ypl| wtn| eon| xyb| qty| fxd| ceq| vff| qav| nis| onl| kcq| dig| pwh| hul| ocf| abp| vzd| xag| mva| wed| qus| mna| bpw| erk| jrj| eib| vth| esk| dle| sah| ada| mrp| vuw| vlj| wuj| dlr| clu| tcs| tkr|