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No Time for Sergeants
Adapted from the novel by Mac Hyman. Author(s):
Ira Levin
as told by the NY Post, "is a classic one. Take a simple and lovable innocent, guileless, gullible and without malice, and place him in juxtaposition to the pompous earnestness of military discipline and bureaucracy, and you have the springboard for mockery that can be both devastating and heartwarming...For its central figure is a husky and good-natured hillbilly who finally gets into the Air Force despite his father's propensity for tearing up his draft papers. The devastation he creates among generals and sergeants, as well as among his fellow service men and, in particular, a military psychiatrist, is the subject of the dramatized cartoon...it is based on the determination of the hero and his pal to get transferred to the infantry. The first half deals with the desperate efforts of the Air Force to classify this highly unclassifiable mountain boy. The second half sends our hero off in an airplane manned by some weary flying officers, most of them suffering from hangovers. It is an enormously comic voyage, even though the plane does get lost and finds itself heading towards an atomic explosion in Yucca Flats... There are very few moments when hilarious things aren't taking place, and there is the additional factor that you find yourself always pulling for its endearing hero."
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| Genre(s): | Comedy
| | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 20 | | Male Characters: | 34 | | Female Characters: | 3 | | Androgynous Characters: | -17 | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $50 per performance
Royalty/cost information prone to change.
Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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