The eight plays in this second volume bear eloquent witness to the unique genius of the master playwright Neil Simon, who so magnificently blends the joy of laughter and the love of life.
Little Me - The Gingerbread Lady - The Prisoner of Second Avenue - The Sunshine Boys - The Good Doctor - God's Favorite - California Suite - Chapter Two
Includes the author's introduction: "As Time Flies By"
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Treasure chest,
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This review is from: The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
This lovely volume of eight Neil Simon plays will assume an immediate place of honour on your bookshelf. Well laid out with easy-to-read type, it takes up where volume 1 leaves off. Even those folks not connected with the world of acting can have fun with these scripts. Reading/acting the plays aloud with your family, each person assigned a different role, can be a great activity for quality time -and will hone your comedy timing. Special nuggets include 'Prisoner of second avenue' and 'Chapter Two'. Reading Simon's work reveals greater depth beneath the priceless one-liners that he supplies. That, in fact, is his genius; like Woody Allen and Joseph Heller, Simon first draws you in with laughter only to move you with great humanity. These plays are among his deeper works, as life-experience go into the mix. The stories on these pages are our own, and youll have a ball!
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Like reality, some hits, some misseas,
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This review is from: The Collected Plays of Neil Simon. Volume 2. (Hardcover)
It is nice to have so many of Mr. Simon's plays in one collection (four or five collections ultimately). I bought this one for the musical "Little Me". The book has a rather depressing, self-depreciating introduction by Mr. Simon and then gets to the plays (I won't list them here). They are easy-reading, contain many stage directions that help the reader picture what is happening on stage, and intelligently written. My one gripe is that there are no credits at the beginning of each one - cast lists, opening date and what theater, how many performances, etc.
This is a good one for studying excellent play structure, character development and motivation, and how to build upon jokes and lines spoken as far back as a previous scene. Well worth the money.
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Most Neil Simon plays are wonderful and I enjoyed reading them. Some of them were no so terriffic.
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The curtain rises on an ornah, lavish room. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Collected Plays, Neil Simon, New York, Uncle Willie, New Jersey, George Schneider, Evy That, Sol Burton, Evy Well, Evy All, Long Island, Bernie Eisenstein, George Musgrove, Los Angeles, Peter Semyonych, Joe Benjamin, Lou Tanner, Noble Eggleston, Sidney Lipton, Val du Val, Willie Clark, Boy Father, Evy Don't, The Ed Sullivan Show, Aunt Henry New!
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The curtain rises on an ornah, lavish room. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
close your bathrobe, doctor sketch, charming call, three rubles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Collected Plays, Neil Simon, New York, Uncle Willie, New Jersey, George Schneider, Evy That, Sol Burton, Evy Well, Evy All, Long Island, Bernie Eisenstein, George Musgrove, Los Angeles, Peter Semyonych, Joe Benjamin, Lou Tanner, Noble Eggleston, Sidney Lipton, Val du Val, Willie Clark, Boy Father, Evy Don't, The Ed Sullivan Show, Aunt Henry New!
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- Good Doctor, The by Neil Simon on 5 pages
- California Suite by Neil Simon in Front Matter, and page 623
- War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy on page 450
- Sunshine Boys, The (Acting Edition) by Neil Simon on page 321
- Fathers and Sons (Penguin Classics) by Ivan Turgenev on page 394
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