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Saturday's Warrior
by Douglas Stewart
 

Genre:  Drama
Sub Genres:
Musical

Subjects: Plan of salvation narrative; premortal existence;
Annotations:
Though not a direct adaptation, this work has strong echoes of an earlier plan of salvation narrative, Nephi Anderson's novel, Added Upon.

First performed 1974 at Brigham Young University, directed by Harold Oaks. This wildly popular stage play went through multiple productions in the 1970s (revised and revived in the 1990s) and has been seen by some 4 million people. It has had considerable impact upon the subsequent development of popular (especially musical) Mormon drama.


Adapted To:
Saturday's Warrior Writer Doug Stewart,Music Composed by Lex De Azevedo,Directed by Bob Williams,Produced by Bob Williams, David West
Film
Saturday's Warrior by Linda Higham Thomson
Novel

Reviewed In:
Saturday's Women: Female Characters as Angels and Monsters in Saturday's Warrior and Reunion. by Nola Diane Smith
Mormon Shakespear[e]s: A Study of Contemporary Mormon Theatre by Frederick Bliss, P. Q. Gump
Madwomen in the Mormon Attic: A Feminist Reading of Saturday's Warrior and Reunion by Nola D. Smith
Saturday's Warrior: A Battlefield Casualty? by D. J. Burton
Trailing Clouds of Glory?: Bad Drama May Be Blasphemous by Alan F. Keele
Coming of Age in LDS Drama: Arnold Van Gennep’s Separation, Transition and Incorporation Applied to Saturday’s Warrior and Huebner by Brent L. Hanson






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