Details

Set in 1939 as Europe plunges into war and America remains in the throes of the great depression, Nick's Pacific Street Saloon Bar, a seedy San Francisco waterfront honky-tonk, is a way-station welcoming lost souls of all kinds. Into Nick's world-in-a-barroom of marble-game machines, drunks, evil vice cops, and comically bad entertainers arrives Kitty Duvall, possibly an internationally renowned Burlesque dancer or possibly a 'two-dollar whore' (no one can be quite sure). While open-hearted, open-handed Joe sets up his flunky, Tom, to woo the angelic Kitty, he also helps a would-be dancer to fulfil his lifelong dream, while we meet a lovelorn young man searching for love at the end of a telephone, a longshoreman with the soul of a poet, slumming society swells, and a boozy old coot with a past that he makes up as he goes along, muttering in the corner about the abyss the world may fall into at any moment... A rich tapestry of human life, peopled by a profusion of wistful dreamers, pining lonely hearts, and beer-hall-philosophers. The first play to win both the New York Drama Critics Circle award and the Pulitzer Prize, The Time of Your Life is a twentieth century American masterpiece. Featuring the largest cast ever assembled at the Finborough Theatre. Performance length approx. 2 hours

Cast/Performers

Larissa Archer, Jack Baldwin, Anne Bird, Natalie Britton, Tanya Cooke, Alastair Cumming, Alex Dee, Robin Dunn, John Eastman, Brett Findlay, Omar Ibrahim, Payman Jaberi, Annie Julian, Anthony Kinaham, PJ King, Gwilym Lloyd, Kevin Millington, Olivia Missenden, David Pallister, Giles Roberts, Matthew Rowland-Roberts, Andy Root, Maeve Ryan, Nicola Sangster, Hannah Scott, Emma Vane, Harry Waller

Creatives/Company

Author: William Saroyan
Company: Icarus Theatre Collective (in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre)
Director: Max Lewendel
Design: Christopher Hone
Lighting: Matthew Newbury
Costume: Natasha Ward