Awake and Sing! - TNT

Clifford Odet's 1935 portrayal of life in the Bronx during the Depression is movingly evoked in Michael Attenborough's finely acted revival. Though old-fashioned, this portrayal of three generations of lower middle class Americans is still quietly involving. Grandfather Jacob holds on to his Marxist ideals, while his daughter Bessie (the bossy matriarch, played by Stockard Channing) can't forgive her husband for being stuck in a dead-end job. As her thwarted son, Ben Turner rails passionately against the lousy salary which keeps him tied to her apron strings, while she tries to sabotage his relationship, and is frustrated by a society in which poverty threatens to destroy them all. No thrills, but a heartfelt portrayal of human nature under financial stress.
Almeida, Almeida St, N1 (020-7359 4404). Until October 20. £6-£29.50