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    Brighton Beach Memoirs
    Brighton Beach Memoirs
    Brighton Beach Memoirs
    Audiobook1 hour

    Brighton Beach Memoirs

    Written by Neil Simon

    Narrated by Valerie Harper, Jonathan Silverman and Full Cast

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    About this audiobook

    In Neil Simon’s darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930’s Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene’s comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness and the growing Nazi threat to relatives in Europe. Simon creates a Brooklyn universe full of memorable characters, humor and truth. A BBC co-production.

    An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Max Casella, Peter Michael Goetz, Valerie Harper, Alexana Lambros, Anna Sophie Loewenberg, Jonathan Silverman and Joyce Van Patten.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.A. Theatre Works
    Release dateJan 1, 2003
    ISBN9781580814201
    Brighton Beach Memoirs
    Author

    Neil Simon

    Neil Simon is the writer of more than forty Broadway plays, including Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Out-of-Towners, and Lost in Yonkers, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

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    • 5/5
      Brighton Beach Memoirs. I had no idea Brighton Beach was in NYC. Very good family drama - reminds me of my mother's family... they too are/were New Yorkers. Loved it. Love Neil Simon.
    • 4/5
      One of Simon's better plays, although not as drop-dead funny as many. It is humorous and poignant, tracing a few days in the life of a Jewish family in New York circa 1937 through the eyes of a young man not quite fifteen (to use the author's phrase). The family rings true, and the phrases used by the adults in this young man's world are amusingly right on the nose. The habit of the young man of breaking the fourth wall and talking directly to the audience isn't something Simon used a lot; it worked for him here, giving it a sort of Glass Menagerie feel. I was fortunate to see a splendid performance of this at a local college theatre, and the performance remained very true to the script. There were a couple of typos that were problematic, as they placed the wrong character's name on a line, which had to be puzzled out before certain things made sense; that probably isn't a problem in other editions.
    • 4/5
      Avery funny play, but also dramatic and heart-touching in the appropriate moments. The narrator's teenage perspective gives the play a lot of its humor and works well.
    • 5/5
      This was good. This was really good.
    • 4/5
      An excellent, excellent play. Fun and fast to read. Set in Brighton Beach and told by the younger son in the story, Eugene Brighton Beach memoirs depicts a typical Jewish American family and a typical teen coming of age at the end of the Great Depression (1937) facing issues of family, puberty and sexuality. Delightful!