Word: saroyan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told everybody to anticipate disaster, fiasco, failure." says Playwright William (The Time of Your Life) Saroyan of his new show. Its title: The London Comedy, or Sam the Highest Jumper of Them All. But as he races to get ready for opening night at London's experimental East End Theatre Royal April 5. the Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze is too busy to be bothered with his own ad monition. He is still trying to decide whether the cast should sing the first-act finale-he is, in fact, still writing his play...
...Saroyan began rehearsals fortnight ago with little more than a title, has let dia logue grow out of onstage argument among the actors, has written and rewritten so furiously that there are seldom enough copies of the latest script to see the cast through a complete scene. But everyone agrees that the play is pure Saroyan the latest gust of a strong second wind that seems to be reviving a 51 -year-old writer who has long seemed written...