The Country Girl (1972 revival)

Clifford Odets’ bruising dramatic masterpiece 'The Country Girl' received a powerful, highly celebrated Broadway revival at the Billy Rose Theatre in 1972 under the banner of the Theatre Company of Boston. The claustrophobic, textually rich realism charts Frank Elgin, a once-brilliant, aging stage actor drowning in severe alcoholism and self-doubt, who is granted a final, desperate chance at professional redemption when he is cast in a grueling new play, collapsing into a psychological tug-of-war between a director and his long-suffering wife Georgie. Directed by David Wheeler, this production achieved historic status due to Jason Robards and Maureen Stapleton.