Till the Day I Die
Written byClifford Odets
Date premiered1935
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama
Settingan underground room,
office in the Columbia Brown house,
Barracks room,
Brown house

Till the Day I Die is a play by Clifford Odets performed on Broadway in 1935.

Description

The play is a seven-scene drama written by Clifford Odets. It was originally written as a piece to accompany Waiting for Lefty.[citation needed]

Productions

It was produced by the Group Theatre and staged by Cheryl Crawford, and ran for 136 performances from March 26, 1935, to July 1935 at the Longacre Theatre.[citation needed]

When the New Theatre in Sydney, tried to stage it in 1936, following its production of Waiting for Lefty earlier that year, the German Consul General in Australia complained to the Commonwealth Government and the play was banned. However the theatre defied the ban and staged the play in private premises,[1] and (after a similar controversy), it was staged to large audiences in Melbourne's New Theatre.[2]

Terminology

The play contains the first documented use of the phrase "male chauvinism".[3]

Broadway cast

References

  1. ^ "New Theatre proves that art IS a weapon". Tribune. No. 746. New South Wales, Australia. June 25, 1952. p. 5. Retrieved November 20, 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "New Theatre: Company history". Arts Centre Melbourne. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
  3. ^ Mansbridge, Jane; Flaster, Katherine (Fall 2005). "Male chauvinist, feminist, sexist, and sexual harassment: different trajectories in feminist linguistic innovation". American Speech. 80 (3): 261. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.103.8136. doi:10.1215/00031283-80-3-256. Archived from the original on September 26, 2022.

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Works by Clifford Odets
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