About the Show

Waiting for Lefty

by Clifford Odets

Director: Joanne Lawler

May 7 to 22, 2021

Written in 1935 amid the American Great Depression, Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty captures a meeting of New York taxi drivers ready to strike. The corrupt union head does everything he can to discourage a decision to strike, but as they wait for their leader Lefty Costello to arrive, members of the workers committee step forward to tell heart-wrenching tales of the conditions that have brought each of them individually to the point of no return.

With families they cannot feed, a society fraught with injustice and no future in sight, they are determined to fight to the death for the right to live like a man; a whole, fully realised person, in a world in which success – “your name in the papers”, “fame and fortune” – is God.

The strike is not about a few extra pennies in their pay or shorter hours of work but a strike for a greater dignity, for a bolder humanity; a strike for the full stature of man.

This American classic will be performed on stage by Reamus Youth Theatre.

Location

Maitland NSW

Dates & Times

Friday 21 May, 2021 at 8:00 PM
Saturday 22 May, 2021 at 8:00 PM

Website

Visit the Maitland Repertory Theatre website for further information - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/maitland-repertory-theatre-28979598057