The Time of Your Life, a five-act play by American playwright William Saroyan that opened in 1939. This play was the first drama to win both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. It is set in a decrepit bar called Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace in San Francisco. Much of the action centers around Joe, a young loafer with money who encourages each of the bar's patrons in their eccentricities. Joe helps out a would-be dancer, Harry, and sets up his flunky, Tom, with a prostitute, Kitty Duval. The bar is also frequented by a number of colorful characters, including a frenetic young man in love, an old man who looks like Kit Carson, and an affluent society couple. Critic John Brown Mason described this modern morality play as "gleeful and heartbreaking, tender and hilarious, probing and elusive."
This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College. If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu).
