Neil Simon Unbound
As it progressed, the playwright’s autobiographical trilogy grew more dark—and more true
| 7:00 AM Oct 27, 2009
Midway through Brighton Beach Memoirs, the first play of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy, the playwright has his fictional stand-in make a confession directly to the audience. “How am I going to become a writer,” asks Eugene Morris Jerome, just shy of 15 and already full of artistic yearning, “if I don’t know how to suffer?”
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