“No Time For Sergeants” and Other Plays about the Armed Forces
The collected military plays of Ira Levin, iconic author of Rosemary’s Baby and Deathtrap. This new edition includes an introduction by Nicholas Levin.
Levin drew on his own experience as a private in the Army’s Public Information Office in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey in this triad of plays.
A rollicking military comedy, No Time For Sergeants follows the misadventures of a country bumpkin named Will Stockdale who was drafted into the US Air Force during World War II. Adapted from the novel by Mac Hyman, Levin first penned No Time For Sergeants as a one-hour TV special and then a full Broadway hit, a movie, and a TV series. The impact of this delightful comedy cannot be overstated, having inspired everything from The Andy Griffith Show to Forrest Gump. It ran for two solid years on Broadway, bringing in nearly one million theatre goers over that time.
In General Seeger, a lifetime army man’s beliefs about his son, and himself, are put to the test on the day intended to honor his fallen war-hero son.
Notebook Warrior is a near-autobiographical drama about a draftee violinist plucked from his fledgling concert career, who struggles with the highly technical demands of the radar school at Fort Monmouth.