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Brighton Beach Memoirs is a deeply appealing play that deftly mixes
drama and Simon’s signature comedy. Part one of Neil Simon’s
autobiographical trilogy, and based on his experiences with puberty and
his family is among the top produced plays in the United States. It is a
portrait of the writer as a Brooklyn teenager in 1937, living with his
family in crowded, lower-middle-class circumstances. Eugene (the young
Neil Simon) is the narrator and central character. His mind is full of
fiercely fantasized dreams of baseball and dimly fantasized
images of girls. The play captures a few days in the life of a
struggling Jewish household that includes Eugene's hard working father,
his sharp-tongued mother, his older and vastly more experienced brother
Stanley, his widowed aunt and her two young daughters. As Eugene's
father says, "If you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't live in this
house." Family miseries are used to raise such enduring issues as
sibling resentments, guilt ridden parent-child relationships and the
hunger for dignity in a poverty stricken world.
"Brings a fresh glow to Broadway...In many respects his funniest,
richest and consequently the most affecting of his plays."
–NY Daily News Click
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