Reviews

Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets

madeleinegeorge's review against another edition

Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust. ISAIAH 26:19

"Nothing good hurts."

"You won't forget me to your dyin' day-- I was the first one. Part of your insides. You won't forget. I wrote my name on you-- indelible ink."

"I saw he was dead and I was born! I swear to God, I'm one week old! I want the whole city to hear it-- fresh blood, arms. We got 'em. We're glad we're living."

daydreamsonpaper's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

jennyglickman's review

emotional funny tense fast-paced

3.5

tloughlin91's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

justsimplehonestjuice's review

3.0

solid play. i neither adored nor despised it. the characters relationships both to each other and their environment are very interesting. also, some of the content (unmarried pregnant woman, socialism, suicide) was considered revolutionary at the time it was written (1935), which is pretty cool.

hannahlee's review against another edition

3.0

Well-written dialogue and an engaging dysfunctional family drama set during the Great Depression, but ultimately it felt like it wasn't fully developed (and indeed it was Odets' first published work). While I enjoyed the drama and the characters quite a lot, the suddenly optimistic ending didn't sit quite right with me. I guess after all that strife it was difficult to take such unbridled (and unfounded) optimism seriously.