Clash by Night (play)

Kim Stanley as Mae D'Amato in the June 13, 1957 *Playhouse 90* production of Clifford Odets' *Clash by Night*, directed by John Frankenheimer. She returned to *Playhouse 90* three years later (March 7, 1960) to portray Sarah Eubanks in Horton Foote's adaptation of William Faulkner's *Tomorrow*, directed by Robert Mulligan.

Clash by Night is a romantic triangle drama by Clifford Odets which premiered on Broadway in 1941 and was later adapted to film and television. The title derives from Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach" (1867):

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.