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Don't Go Away Mad

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  2w, 9m

William Saroyan

Where but in Saroyan can you expect to find humor of such a sad kind, coming like laughter through tears? Or characters that disarm you with such honesty and simpleheartedness? DON'T GO AWAY MAD lives up to your every expectation; it is Saroyan at his human best. Herein are six men of the t…

Don't Go Away Mad

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Where but in Saroyan can you expect to find humor of such a sad kind, coming like laughter through tears? Or characters that disarm you with such honesty and simpleheartedness? DON'T GO AWAY MAD lives up to your every expectation; it is Saroyan at his human best. Herein are six men of the type you meet every day and never recognize: the lowly ones, unloved and unknown. They have been withdrawn from the world, and now sit in the silence of a hospital to await and suffer death. The play is a reflection on their pitifully ernest attempt to find in death the purpose and succor they could not find in life, so that they may not "go away mad."

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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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