Show Plot Brighton Beach Memoirs

Centers on the house and family of of Eugene Jerome, a 15-year-old Brooklynite who scrutinizes his relatives in a journal which he share with the audience in a series of monologues.</p><p><strong>

Authors: Neil Simon

Time Period: Fall of 1937, right before the outbreak of World War II

Setting: A lower-middle-class walk-up home in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY

Summary: Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age comedy set in September 1937 in Brooklyn, New York. The play follows a witty, baseball-obsessed 15-year-old boy named Eugene as he navigates adolescence, family drama, and the financial strains of the Great Depression.