Maitland Repertory Theatre Presents WAITING FOR LEFTY
Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty captures a meeting of New York taxi drivers ready to strike.
Waiting for Lefty will be presented by Reamus Youth Theatre and directed by Joanne Lawler, May 7 to 22 at Maitland Repertory Theatre.
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.
Tickets are now on sale via Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/3frjSdC
More info: https://www.mrt.org.au/2021-season/waiting-for-lefty/
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