"The time of your life" by W. Saroyan: production on Broadway in "frightened fifties"
After the smash hits on Broadway of his first two plays in 1939 - «My heart’s in the highlands» and «The time of your life» - the all following 15 years W. Saroyan’s dramaturgy fit in American life in difficulty. From beginning of «witch-hunt» in USA, at the first post-war decade his «naive» plays with absolute belief in human good spirit stopped to run on the stage at all. And only at the end of McCarthy Era, «Frightened Fifties», his dramaturgy became needed again. Though in spite of the fact, that production «The time of your life» in 1955 was truly artistic achievement, its fortune on Broadway wasn’t happy. The reasons for this - however much unexpected - are examined in this article.