Theatre: Ethical heavyweights
A fistful: Josh O’Connor in Golden Boy
MARC BRENNER
Josh O’Connor, another screen star (Disclosure Day, The Crown) who is blessedly still keen on theatre, gives a heavyweight turn as the boxer who keeps beating himself up.
THE PLAYS of Clifford Odets (1906-1963) flourished during the Great Depression and – in another era when stock volatility and military tension raise fears of a market crash – no quiz prizes for guessing why they are currently being revived. Ahead of the December Broadway production of Awake and Sing!, his 1935 drama of New York poverty, London dusts off Golden Boy (1937), Odets’ best-known work due to a 1939 film version still seen on afternoon TV.
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