From Library Journal
These plays, previously unpublished, all center on what it means to be an Armenian in the 20th century. Only Armenians has been produced. In 1921 Fresno, Saroyan's hometown, characters discuss the Armenian issue, then of immediate concern. In Bitlis Saroyan and his traveling companions reexamine the issue on his first trip back to the Saroyan family home in 1964. Haratch is set in the offices of an Armenian newspaper in 1979 Paris. In these most undramatic of plays, the dialogue is rhetorical, the plot nonexistent, and the subject matter narrowly focused; they are more Socratic dialogues than dramas. They will be of interest primarily to Saroyan devotees and those of Armenian heritage. Stephen A. Fulchino, Medford P.L., Mass.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The Armenian Trilogy FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
These plays, previously unpublished, all center on what it means to be an Armenian in the 20th century. Only Armenians has been produced. In 1921 Fresno, Saroyan's hometown, characters discuss the Armenian issue, then of immediate concern. In Bitlis Saroyan and his traveling companions reexamine the issue on his first trip back to the Saroyan family home in 1964. Haratch is set in the offices of an Armenian newspaper in 1979 Paris. In these most undramatic of plays, the dialogue is rhetorical, the plot nonexistent, and the subject matter narrowly focused; they are more Socratic dialogues than dramas. They will be of interest primarily to Saroyan devotees and those of Armenian heritage. Stephen A. Fulchino, Medford P.L., Mass.
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