Written by George Bernard Shaw - Performed by Max Casella, Valerie Harper, Jonathan Silverman, Joyce Van Patten, and a full cast Directed by Gordon House - 2 CASSETTES - 121 minutes Publisher, L.A. Theatre Works (July 1993) In Neil Simon's darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930's Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin Nora. Eugene's comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness, and the growing Nazi threat to relatives in Europe. Simon creates a Brooklyn universe full of memorable characters, humor and truth. A BBC co-production. L.A. Theatre Works, a non-profit arts organization, brings distinguished actors together with the world's finest dramatic literature to create superb audio recordings of contemporary and classic plays taped both live-in-performance and in-studio for later broadcast over public radio. A pioneering lab for playwrights, directors and other theatre artists, L.A. Theatre Works is committed to the discovery and development of contemporary work in radio and theatre. |
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