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By Clifford Odets
Directed by nicHi douglas
Waiting for Lefty is a series of varied episodes that blend into a powerful mosaic of the American working class. We begin in a hiring hall where a union leader is trying to convince a committee of workers (who are waiting for their leader, Lefty, to arrive) not to strike. Through flashback and vignette, we then visit a discouraged taxi driver in confrontation with his wife; an employee promised a major promotion in exchange for spying on a fellow worker; a young cabbie and his would-be bride who lack the wherewithal to get married; and a senior doctor charged with dismissing a bright, promising intern. Through the powerful musical score composed by Truth Future Bachman, the relentlessly athletic choreographic landscape (also by nicHi douglas), and the deliberate dramaturgical focus on where immigration intersects with American labor movements, this production of Waiting for Lefty puts the 1930s in direct conversation with today's working class.