Neil Simon Ordre des livres (chronologique)
Neil Simon était un dramaturge et scénariste américain, célèbre pour sa production prolifique et son succès constant. Il est l'auteur de plus de 30 pièces de théâtre, s'établissant comme l'un des créateurs de succès les plus fiables de Broadway et un dramaturge joué dans le monde entier. Bien qu'il ait été principalement un maître de la comédie, ses œuvres se penchent souvent sur des réflexions profondes concernant l'expérience judéo-américaine du XXe siècle. L'écriture de Simon se caractérise par son esprit vif, ses personnages attachants et ses dialogues mémorables.
Comedy / 2m, 3f / Var. settings This Broadway hit is a composite of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov. In one sketch a harridan storms a bank and upbraids the manager for his gout and lack of money. In another, a father takes his son to a house where he will be initiated into the mysteries of sex, only to relent at the last moment and leave the boy more perplexed than ever. In another sketch, a crafty seducer goes to work on a wedded woman, only to realize that the woman has bee
Brighton Beach Memoirs
- 125pages
- 5 heures de lecture
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
Chapter Two
- 144pages
- 6 heures de lecture
Recent widower, writer George Schneider, is encouraged by his younger brother Leo to start dating again.
Fools
- 80pages
- 3 heures de lecture
Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives, he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for two hundred years, and Leon’s job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over twenty-four hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid, she has only recently learned how to sit down.
America's premier funny man and the Tony Award-winning composer of A Chorus Line collaborated on this hit musical, a funny, romantic show about an established composer and his relationship with an aspiring young female lyricist, not unlike Carole Bayer Sager. Professionally, their relationship works beautifully-but ultimately leads to conflict on the home front.
