Waiting for Lefty
by Clifford Odets
Exploring the saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same", Clifford Odets's Waiting for Lefty was explored with the current state of the world in mind. Setting the 1935 play in the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protest. The "occupiers" performed in an epic theatre style the text of Waiting for Lefty. The worlds of the past and present start to merge as the similarities become more and more striking, and as audience members, we question what was from a play and what was real.
