Clifford Odets: Awake and Sing! September 22, 2009

'Awake and Sing' covers a year in the life of an extended Jewish family that does whatever it takes to survive life in the Bronx. Written at the height of the Depression, this stirring family portrait depicts the too true-to-life economic hardships confronted by working-class families during the l930s, documenting their drreams and disappointments, hopes, fears and follies in the face of the American dream.