Clifford Odets had a vision of what the great depression was doing to families and businesss around the U S He wanted to portray that in a play where he could do a first of its kind and have the audience as a part in the play In 1935 Clifford Odets first play to be produced was Waiting for lefty It was a controversial play about the depression in the mid 1930s that was all one act with seven different scenes It was something that every person in the audience could relate to in each scene becaus