The Prisoner Of Second Avenue
by Neil Simon
Highlights
Awards & Recognition
Nominee: Three 1972 Tony Awards, including Best Play
What readers are saying
Readers appreciate the enduring charm of Neil Simon's work, noting its humor and relevance even decades after its release. Many find it a fun and enjoyable play that brings laughter, though some express dissatisfaction with specific publication issues rather than the content itself.
Synopsis
Comedy / Characters: 2 males 4 females
Scenery: Interior Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and he gets the ax.
His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over then she too is sacked.
Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants and with the walls of the apartment paper-thin allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors private lives things can't seem to get any worse...then he's robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $
Press Reviews
"Creates an atmosphere of casual cataclysm, an everyday urban purgatory of copelessness from which laughter seems to be released like vapor from the city’s manholes."
— Time
"A gift for taking a grave subject and, without losing sight of its basic seriousness, treating it with hearty but sympathetic humor... A talent for writing a wonderful funny line... full of humor and intelligence. Fine fun."
— New York Post
Characters
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Edna Edison |
Harry Edison |
Pearl |
Jessie |
Pauline |
Mel Edison |
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The Prisoner Of Second Avenue (1975) Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft Comedy Movie HD
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Publication
The Prisoner Of Second Avenue is a British comedy play written by Neil Simon and published by Samuel French in New York (2010).
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Samuel French · 2010 · 90 pp
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