Till the Day I Die

For the rock song, see Until the Day I Die.

Till the Day I Die is a play by Clifford Odets performed on Broadway in 1935.

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

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

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.
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.

External links

• ​Till the Day I Die​ at the Internet Broadway Database