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Brighton Beach Memoirs

Monday, May 19, 2014
Zarah Laurence

"Brighton Beach Memoirs" is a play written by Neil Simon that tells the story of a Polish-Jewish family trying to make ends meet in 1937 Brooklyn, N.Y. The play is semi-autobiographical and is narrated from the perspective of 14-year-old Eugene Morris Jerome. Southeast's River Campus preformed this show April 30 through May 4 in the Wendy Kurka Rust Flexible Theater.