num_pages: 116
description: Full Length, Comic Drama / 3m, 4f / Comb. Ints/Ext. Here is part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley
language: English
title: Brighton Beach Memoirs
titlecomplete: Brighton Beach Memoirs
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, Comedy, American, Plays, Humor, School, Coming Of Age, Fiction
ratings_count: 5158
series: Eugene
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best Play, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Drama Desk Award
category: Outstanding New Play
publisher: Samuel French Inc