RUSTINGTON PLAYERS

	BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS by Neil Simon Weds 15th - Sat 18th November 2006
	From the author of “Plaza Suite”, California Suite”, “Barefoot in The Park” and many other bittersweet comedies we bring you the enchanting “Brighton Beach Memoirs” a nostalgic and poignant look at family life in Brooklyn, New York in the late 1930’s. Set in the middle income area of Brighton Beach, New York, this play derives from the playwright’s own childhood recollections, and depicts life in the Jerome household as seen through the eyes and humour of the 15 year old son Eugene, who both narrates and intertwines with the action as significant events in the life of each family member unfold to create a mix of household tension, drama and comedy. It is a chronicle of life on the block for a second-generation immigrant family in the hard times just before the outbreak of the second world war. This is a poignant tale of strained family affiliations, the struggle to make ends meet, and of suppressed human emotion that will strike chords of familiarity and empathy with most observers. It is gently humorous, enlivened by Eugene’s teenage obsessions and youthful observations.

BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS

by Neil Simon

Weds 15th - Sat 18th November 2006

From the author of “Plaza Suite”, California Suite”, “Barefoot in The Park” and many other bittersweet comedies we bring you the enchanting “Brighton Beach Memoirs” a nostalgic and poignant look at family life in Brooklyn, New York in the late 1930’s.

Set in the middle income area of Brighton Beach, New York, this play derives from the playwright’s own childhood recollections, and depicts life in the Jerome household as seen through the eyes and humour of the 15 year old son Eugene, who both narrates and intertwines with the action as significant events in the life of each family member unfold to create a mix of household tension, drama and comedy.

It is a chronicle of life on the block for a second-generation immigrant family in the hard times just before the outbreak of the second world war. This is a poignant tale of strained family affiliations, the struggle to make ends meet, and of suppressed human emotion that will strike chords of familiarity and empathy with most observers. It is gently humorous, enlivened by Eugene’s teenage obsessions and youthful observations.