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The Time of Your Life

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  7w, 18m

The Time of Your Life

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    7w, 18m
  • Suggested Use
    • Cutting Approved for Competition
    • UIL Approved
    • Competition or audition material
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
    Winner! Drama Critics' Circle Award Tribune

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Summary
'In the time of our life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it' The Time of Your Life, a rich tapestry of human life, peopled by a profusion of wistful dreamers, pining lonely hearts, and beer-hall-philosophers, is a twentieth century American masterpiece. The Time of Your Life was first presented at The Shubert Theatre, New Haven, USA, on 7 October 1939. It was the first play to win both the New York Drama Critics' Circle award and the Pulitzer Prize. . It has been revived three times on Broadway; was filmed in 1948, starring James Cagney; and twice filmed for TV. It was last seen in the UK in a star-studded Royal Shakespeare Company production in Stratford and London in 1983, and received the following review: 'A remarkable play which blazes forth like a brave beacon: warming and full of fire' Daily Mail

Media

"Gleeful, heartbreaking, tender and hilarious, probing and elusive." - New York Post

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Authors

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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