HELLO, OUT THERE! THE HUNGERERS

One of W.Saroyan's best plays, a one-act drama about a lynching. Two lonesome souls – a young man (now in jail, accused of rape), a fellow "traveling all over the country, trying to break his bad luck, going from one little town to another, trying to find somebody good somewhere", and a girl... out there, the sudden affection of the young man. He is to be lynched, he knows it. His monologues are just saying a frantic good-bye to all the dreams and hopes never come true. It's passion, energy, and happiness to be taken from a young man. He is perhaps wrong. But who would say it? "You know when you get enough money; you can't be wrong because the money says so"

The second play is a fantasy, which sounds more like melody than a play, a set of random scenes about some people who starve. Poverty is something, which a human being shouldn't perhaps know, but since it exists, it must not be ignored and in a way must be respected. When a human being contrives to live a full life despite the poverty it means he defeats the poverty. Such ideas S. Saroyan used to express in many of his writings – People must be helped to live in defiance of poverty, and they will be helped in that by the engagement in a creative work, only then they would be able to realize they are people