Don't Go Away Mad
by William Saroyan
Synopsis
Where but in Saroyan can you expect to find humor of such a sad kind, coming like laughter through tears?
Or characters that disarm you with such honesty and simpleheartedness?
DON'T GO AWAY MAD lives up to your every expectation; it is Saroyan at his human best.
Herein are six men of the type you meet every day and never recognize: the lowly ones, unloved and unknown.
They have been withdrawn from the world, and now sit in the silence of a hospital to await and suffer death.
The play is a reflection on their pitifully ernest attempt to find in death the purpose and succor they could not find in life, so that they may not "go away mad."
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Don't Go Away Mad is a comedy play written by William Saroyan and published by Samuel French.
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