The Cave Dwellers (by William Saroyan) are broken-down performers camping out in a crumbling, abandoned East Side theater. A done-for boxer, a beat old clown, an ailing old actress are joined by a sweet young girl and a man with a trained bear and a wife who gives birth to a baby. By day they lie abed, or street-beg, or in desperation steal milk. By night they act out their old roles, philosophize, soliloquize, dramatize the day's rebuffs, fall asleep and dream.
With his first Broadway play in 14 years, Saroyan is clearly back at the same old stand, making the same...
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