Synopsis
No Time for Sergeants
$13 Published by Dramatists Play Service
3 Female
His determination to be transferred to the infantry soon spells trouble among generals and sergeants, his fellow service men and, in particular, a military psychiatrist
Thus begins the desperate efforts of the Air Force to classify this highly unclassifiable mountain boy
Undaunted, our hero is soon sent off on what becomes a comic voyage, in an airplane manned by some weary flying officers, most suffering from hangovers
Even though the plane does get lost and heads towards an atomic explosion in Yucca Flats, the hilarity of the play's endearing hero leaves few moments to contemplate the ensuing disaster
"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 ... its gift for uproarious lampooning is matched only by its genial good nature" - NY Post