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NEW ORLEANS, LA — The Cripple Creek Theatre Company will stage a three-week revival of Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty. Performances will be held May 11th through 26th at 2130 Magazine Street.
The short play—originally staged by the Group Theatre in New York—is comprised of brief episodes that surround a cab workers’ strike in the 1930s. The series of inventive scenes result in a rousing and stirring appraisal of the economic and political systems which build and maintain class divides in the United States. With the aid of a capable and clever cast, director Andrew Vaught has reinvigorated this seminal ...Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA — The Cripple Creek Theatre Company will stage a three-week revival of Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty. Performances will be held May 11th through 26th at 2130 Magazine Street.
The short play—originally staged by the Group Theatre in New York—is comprised of brief episodes that surround a cab workers’ strike in the 1930s. The series of inventive scenes result in a rousing and stirring appraisal of the economic and political systems which build and maintain class divides in the United States. With the aid of a capable and clever cast, director Andrew Vaught has reinvigorated this seminal work of the American stage by expounding on the universality of its characters and circumstances.
It is the story of a cab driver working long hours for no pay and his wife unable to feed their children, a young scientist asked to abandon his principles in the name of war profiteering, a couple in love but without the means to marry, a competent and accomplished doctor fired out of intolerance, and a group of workers who are moved to strike until they are afforded justice.
This production, like the Cripple Creek Theatre Company’s last, will be immersive. The building used will be remade as a union hall and the audience will sit amidst the actors.
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