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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 Die is a play by Clifford Odets performed on Broadway in 1935.

Description

The play is a seven-scene drama written by Clifford Odets. It was originally written as a piece to accompany Waiting for Lefty.^{[citation needed]}

Productions

It was produced by the Group Theatre and staged by Cheryl Crawford, and ran for 136 performances from March 26, 1935, to July 1935 at the Longacre Theatre.^{[citation needed]}

When the New Theatre in Sydney, tried to stage it in 1936, following its production of Waiting for Lefty earlier that year, the German Consul General in Australia complained to the Commonwealth Government and 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 in Melbourne's New Theatre.^[2]

Terminology

The play contains the first documented use of the phrase "male chauvinism".^[3]

Broadway cast

Margaret Barker as Tillie
Abner Biberman as fourth Orderly
Roman Bohnen as Major Duhring
Lee J. Cobb as Detective Popper
William Challee as Edsel Peltz
Russell Collins as Schlupp
Walter Coy as Karl Taussig
George Heller as Secretary
Elia Kazan as Baum and as other prisoner
Alexander Kirkland as Ernst Taussig
David Kortchmar as Zeltner and as second detective
Gerrit Kraber as third orderly and as first detective
Lewis Leverett as Captain Schlegel
Bob Lewis as Martin and as an orderly
Lee Martin as Stieglitz
Paula Miller as woman
Paul Morrison as other prisoner
Ruth Nelson as 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 Zanville as Julius

References

^ "New Theatre proves that art IS a weapon". Tribune. No. 746. New South Wales, Australia. June 25, 1952. p. 5. Retrieved November 20, 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "New Theatre: Company history". Arts Centre Melbourne. Retrieved November 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. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.103.8136. doi:10.1215/00031283-80-3-256. Archived from the original on September 26, 2022.

External links

Till the Day I Die at the Internet Broadway Database

[20th-1] "New Theatre proves that art IS a weapon". Tribune. No. 746. New South Wales, Australia. June 25, 1952. p. 5. Retrieved November 20, 2022 – via National Library of Australia.

[hist-2] "New Theatre: Company history". Arts Centre Melbourne. Retrieved November 20, 2022.

[3] Mansbridge, Jane; Flaster, Katherine (Fall 2005). "Male chauvinist, feminist, sexist, and sexual harassment: different trajectories in feminist linguistic innovation". American Speech. 80 (3): 261. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.103.8136. doi:10.1215/00031283-80-3-256. Archived from the original on September 26, 2022.

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