Lincoln Center Theatre presents, the story of the Bergers, a lower-middle-class, three-generation Jewish family living in a Bronx apartment during the Depression.
The Berger family members and their boarder, Moe Axelrod, all long for a better world for themselves. True to life in his depiction of the extreme economic hardships confronted by working-class immigrant families during the Depression, Odets documents their travails and their hopes, concluding ‘Awake and Sing!’ on an optimistic if ambiguous note.
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