Details

Clifford Odets' neglected Chekhovian masterpiece is as robust, emotional and gritty as the Great Depression itself. Crowded together in a cramped Bronx brownstone tenement and laid low by the Depression, this moving drama of a dysfunctional Jewish family pulses with intense vitality and hard-hitting realism, as they struggle for survival in the midst of poverty and hypocrisy, and grasp for dreams in a blunt, mean, angry world.

Cast/Performers

Stockard Channing (Bessie Berger), Trevor Cooper (Uncle Morty), Kieron Jecchinis (Schlosser), Paul Jesson (Myron Berger), Nigel Lindsay (Moe Axelrod), John Lloyd Fillingham (Sam Feinschreiber), John Rogan (Jacob), Ben Turner (Ralph Berger), Jodie Whittaker (Hennie Berger)

Creatives/Company

Author: Clifford Odets
Producer: Almeida Theatre
Director: Michael Attenborough
Design: Tim Shortall
Lighting: Paul Pyant
Sound: John Leonard