Neil Simon Bücher
4. Juli 1927 – 26. August 2018
Neil Simon war ein amerikanischer Dramatiker und Drehbuchautor, der für sein umfangreiches Werk und seinen beständigen Erfolg gefeiert wurde. Er verfasste über 30 Theaterstücke und etablierte sich als einer der zuverlässigsten Hitmacher am Broadway und als weltweit aufgeführter Dramatiker. Obwohl er überwiegend ein Meister der Komödie war, befassten sich seine Werke oft mit tiefgründigen Reflexionen über die jüdisch-amerikanische Erfahrung des 20. Jahrhunderts. Simons Schreiben zeichnet sich durch seinen scharfen Witz, seine nachvollziehbaren Charaktere und seinen beständigen Dialog aus.
Fools
- 80 Seiten
- 3 Lesestunden
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.
Brighton Beach Memoirs
- 125 Seiten
- 5 Lesestunden
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
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.
