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Bezig met laden... The Time of Your Life: A Comedy in Three Acts (1939)door William Saroyan
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Life has no meaning but maybe we can make some. ( ) Saroyan won the Pulitzer Prize for this play however he declined to accept it with the belief that commerce should not patronize art. I wonder if he allowed the box office to sell tickets. I know he wasn't able to restrain the publisher from charging for my copy of this book. Although it's subtitled "A Comedy in Three Acts," I still struggle to identify the spots where you're supposed to laugh. Perhaps it's when this play once appeared in an anthology entitled Three Dramas of American Realism. A collection of William Saroyan's best-known plays: "My Heart's in the Highlands", "Love's Old Sweet Song", "The Beautiful People", "Hello Out There", and the best of the bunch, "The Time of Your Life". Many of Saroyan's stories are about people somehow disconnected from life, and somehow expecting that their art will inspire the world to exempt them from the need to think about food, clothing and shelter. These stories have become kind of irritating to me, especially when they involve children who do most of the actual beg, borrow and steal to keep body and soul together. "The Time of Your Life", however, is actually quite a good and moving story. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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A programme text edition published in conjunction with the Finborough Theatre to coincide with the centenary of the birth of William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life runs from 26 November - 20 December. '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 Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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