The Time of Your Life
The Time of Your Life is a 1939 five-act play by American playwright William Saroyan. The play is the first drama to win both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The play opened on Broadway in 1939. Characters Main characters Joe, a loafer with money and a good heart Tom, his admirer, disciple, errand boy, stooge and friend Kitty Duval, a young streetwalker who longs for a better life Nick, owner of Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace Arab, an Eastern philosopher and harmonica-player Kit Carson, a teller of tall tales who looks like an old Indian-fighter McCarthy, an intelligent and well-read longshoreman Krupp, his boyhood friend, a waterfront cop who hates his job but doesn't know what else to do instead Harry, a natural born hoofer who wants to make people laugh but can't Wesley, a young colored man who plays a mean and melancholy boogie-woogie piano Willie, a marble-game maniac Dudley, a young man in love Elsie, a nurse, the one he loves Lorene, an unattractive woman Mary L., an unhappy woman of quality and great beauty Blick, a heel Minor characters A Newsboy A Drunkard Nick's Ma Sailor