Awake and Sing!
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: KCET, Broadway Theatre Archive
- Keyword: new york city, world war i, great depression, filmed theater
- Cast: Walter Matthau, Ron Rifkin, Felicia Farr, Martin Ritt, Leo Fuchs, Robert Lipton
