Everett Beekin
by Richard Greenberg

Everett Beekin Book Cover
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120 minsFlexible Cast SizeUnit Set/Multiple SettingsAmericanComedy

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Readers have mixed feelings about the play, enjoying the humor in the first part more than in the second. While there are funny moments, the second part seems to fall short for some viewers.

Funny moments and linesEngaging first partPart 2 is less enjoyable

Synopsis

THE STORY: Part One (The Shabbos Goy) takes place in the late '40s on the Lower East Side where we meet the Fox women--sweet, hopeful Anna, pregnant with her first child and reveling in her new life as a young matron in Levittown; caustic Sophie,

Press Reviews

"…a blisteringly funny stew of sibling rivalry and assimilation angst.” —Variety. “[Greenberg] has a profound and refreshing respect for the ineffable, an awareness of how every word spoken, no matter how honestly, contains at least the grain of a lie."

— The New York Times

Publication

Year2003
BindingPaperback
Pages70
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780822218661
ISBN-100822218666
LCCN2006462599
LCCPS3557.R3789 E95 2003b

Everett Beekin is a American comedy play written by Richard Greenberg and published by Dramatists Play Service (2003).

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Dramatists Play Service · 2003 · 70 pp

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