Thursday, February 12, 2009

Between Classes...

Excerpted from Waiting for Lefty (1935) by Clifford Odets:


Agate: "-fight with us for right! It's war! Working class, unite and fight! Tear down the slaughter house of our old lives! Let freedom really ring"



Agate: "HELLO AMERICA! HELLO. WE'RE STORMBIRDS OF THE WORKING-CLASS. WORKERS OF THE WORLD...OUR BONES AND BLOOD! And when we die they'll know what we did to make a new world! Christ, cut us up to little pieces. We'll die for what's right! put fruit trees where our ashes are! Well, what's the answer?
All: STRIKE!
Agate: LOUDER!
All: STRIKE!
Agate and Others on Stage: AGAIN!
All: STRIKE, STRIKE, STRIKE!!!

CURTAIN

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