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Hello, Out There

Short Play, Drama  /  2w, 3m

William Saroyan

"Hello, Out There" reveals the adventure of Photo Finish, an itinerant gambler, who is arrested and jailed in a small Texas town and charged with rape.

Hello, Out There

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    2w, 3m

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Summary
Hello, Out There reveals the adventure of Photo Finish, an itinerant gambler, who is arrested and jailed in a small Texas town and charged with rape. The charge is a lie, but the only one who hears Photo's call for justice and understanding is Emily, a young girl who cooks for the prisoners. Photo gives all his money to Emily before a mob breaks into the jail and the lying woman's husband shoots him.
History

Hello, Out There premiered on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre in September 1942 under the direction of Eddie Dowling.

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THE YOUNG GAMBLER
THE GIRL
THE HUSBAND
THE WIFE
ANOTHER MAN
  • Setting A little jailhouse in Matador, Texas.

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William Saroyan

William Saroyan
Novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and essayist, William Saroyan was born in Fresno, California in 1908. A high-school dropout, Saroyan was largely self-educated and decided at an early age to pursue a career as a writer, drawing on his experience as an Armenian-America ...
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