The
Time of Your Life
by William Saroyan
An RSC
production
Opened 26th March 1983 at The Other
Place, Stratford-upon-Avon; transferred to the Barbican Centre:
The Pit, London on 23rd May 1984.
Director: Howard Davies
Assistant Director: Paul Marcus
Set Designer: Bob
Crowley, assisted by Rob Langsford
Costume Designer: Allan Watkins
Lighting: Leo Leibovici
Piano Arrangements: Keith Nichols
Choreographer: Ann Emery
Sound: John A Leonard
Dialect Coach: Joan Washington
Company Voice Work: Cicely Berry and David Carey
Stage Manager: David M Harvey
Deputy Stage Manager: Helen Lovat-Fraser
Assistant Stage Manager: Alison Owen
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Cast |
Bruce Alexander.....McCarthy/Policeman
Geoffrey Beevers.....Krupp/Policeman
Jane Booker.....Mary L
Selena Carey-Jones.....Elsie
John Cater.....Kit Carson
Frankie Cosgrave.....Lorene/Killer
James Fleet.....Willie
Henry Goodman.....Harry
Paul Greenwood.....Tom
David Haig.....Dudley
Caroline Harris.....Society Lady
Dan
Massey.....Joe
Martin Milman.....The Drunkard/Blick
Christopher Neame.....Society Gentleman
Stanley Page.....Arab
Tony Scott.....Wesley
Paul Spence.....The Newsboy/Paul Spence
John Thaw
(later, Trevor Peacock).....Nick
Zoë Wanamaker.....Kitty
Duval |
Production |
| The play is set largely
in a San Francisco
dive, Nick's Pacfic Street Saloon Restaurant and Entertainment
Palace, where the locals go to drown their sorrows. The
Time of Your Life is a portrait of American working-class life
during the Depression. |
Notes |
| Zoë received an Olivier
award nomination for her performance in this
production. |
Reviews |
| 'The ever delightful
Zoë Wanamaker is superb as Kitty Duval, plangently dreaming of home
in Poland in the débris of a collapsed family business and the
shame of being a hooker,' remarked critic Michael Coveney in a
contemporary review of The Time of Your Life, after the play had
transferred to The Pit. |
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