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The Time of Your Life: A Comedy in Three Acts

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I first became involved with this Pulitzer Prize play in college. I was a bright-eyed theatre major in deep East Texas. We were blessed with a throw-back of a man that lived his directorial adventures. Our season consisted of the classics......Glass Menajerie, Our Town, Dark of the Moon, and a great play by Truman Capote, The Grass Harp.(his only play)

In the late sixties we were taken on a trip with The Time of our Life that rivaled the Timothy Leary escapades that filled the air with this soulfull story of lives crossing paths with each other. The author's preface to the play tells of the destiny we carry as we impact the people we meet and see throughout the time of our life. You create the plot from vinnettes that pass before your eyes like the music videos and sound bites we have come to expect in this decade of speed.

Slow down, take your time, and escape to a world long gone by. You are the voyuer and casual observer at Nick's, on the Embarcadero, in the sepiatone fog of San Francisco at the turn of the century. You relate to these characters as they 'strut and fret' their common lives in three acts. It is a play you will place on your bookshelf and cherish as a family album.

By the way, our production of the show was selected one of ten in the nation to be honored in Washington, DC at Ford's Theatre, and be recognized by the American College Theatre Festival/Kennedy Center. We were living large with an old story in a very 'new' time.

I had to read this book for school. Boy am I glad I had to, I loved it.