SOURCE: Kouymjian, Dickran. Introduction to “Warsaw Visitor” and “Tales from the Vienna Streets”: The Last Two Plays of William Saroyan, edited and with an introduction by Dickran Kouymjian, pp. 1-37. Fresno: The Press at California State University at Fresno, 1991.

In the following essay, Kouymjian characterizes Saroyan's last two plays as his final theatrical statements, noting that although there are differences among them, the two works share a special kinship due to their link with Saroyan's experiences in the last year of his life.

William Saroyan wrote Warsaw Visitor and Tales from the Vienna Streets in Paris during June and July of 1980. He had cancer and knew it. He died less than a year later on May 18, 1981 in the Veteran's Hospital in Fresno, the city where he was born on August 31, 1908. Were these then his last plays? I am not sure and have not wanted to investigate too far...