Fools
by Neil Simon

Broadway
Fools Book Cover
Fools Cover

Highlights

19th Century Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes American Comedy

Synopsis

Comedy / 7m 3f / Int/ext

Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic.

He's landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet.

When he arrives he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream.

The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for 200 years and Leon's job is to break the curse.

No one tells him that if he stays over 24 hours and fails to break the curse he too becomes Stupid.

But he has fallen in love with a girl so

Press Reviews

"The brightest, freshest, funniest, wittiest, warmest and happiest to do on Broadway in many a day."

— CBS-TV

Characters

Character
Snetsky
Magistrate
Slovitch
Mishkin
Yenchna
Dr. Zubritsky
Lenya Zubritsky
Sophia Zubritsky
Gregor Yousekevitch
Leon Tolchinsky

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Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1981
Binding Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 80
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573608773
ISBN-10 0573608776

Fools is a American comedy play written by Neil Simon and published by Samuel French in New York (1981).

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