Till the Day I Die
| Till the Day I Die | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Clifford Odets |
| Date premiered | 1935 |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
| Setting | an underground room, office in the Columbia Brown house, Barracks room, Brown house |
Till the Day I Dieis a play byClifford Odetsperformed onBroadwayin 1935.
Description
[edit]The play is a seven-scene drama written byClifford Odets.It was originally written as a piece to accompanyWaiting for Lefty.[citation needed]
Productions
[edit]It was produced by theGroup Theatreand staged byCheryl Crawford,and ran for 136 performances from March 26, 1935, to July 1935 at theLongacre Theatre.[citation needed]
When theNew TheatreinSydney,tried to stage it in 1936, following its production ofWaiting for Leftyearlier that year, the GermanConsul Generalin Australia complained to theCommonwealth Governmentand 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 inMelbourne'sNew Theatre.[2]
Terminology
[edit]The play contains the first documented use of the phrase "male chauvinism".[3]
Broadway cast
[edit]- Margaret Barker as Tillie
- Abner Bibermanas fourth Orderly
- Roman Bohnenas Major Duhring
- Lee J. Cobbas Detective Popper
- William Challeeas Edsel Peltz
- Russell Collinsas Schlupp
- Walter Coy as Karl Taussig
- George Heller as Secretary
- Elia Kazanas Baum and as other prisoner
- Alexander Kirklandas Ernst Taussig
- David Kortchmar as Zeltner and as second detective
- Gerrit Kraber as third orderly and as first detective
- Lewis Leverettas Captain Schlegel
- Bob Lewisas Martin and as an orderly
- Lee Martin as Stieglitz
- Paula Miller as woman
- Paul Morrison as other prisoner
- Ruth Nelsonas woman
- Dorothy Patten as Frau Duhring
- Wendell K. Phillips as boy
- Herbert Ratner as Adolph
- Samuel Roland as first orderly and as Arno
- Eunice Stoddard as Zelda
- Harry Stone as another orderly and as second orderly
- Bernard Zanvilleas Julius
References
[edit]- ^"New Theatre proves that art IS a weapon".Tribune.No. 746. New South Wales, Australia. June 25, 1952. p. 5.RetrievedNovember 20,2022– via National Library of Australia.
- ^"New Theatre: Company history".Arts Centre Melbourne.RetrievedNovember 20,2022.
- ^Mansbridge, Jane; Flaster, Katherine (Fall 2005)."Male chauvinist, feminist, sexist, and sexual harassment: different trajectories in feminist linguistic innovation".American Speech.80(3): 261.CiteSeerX10.1.1.103.8136.doi:10.1215/00031283-80-3-256.Archived fromthe originalon September 26, 2022.