Napoli, Brooklyn
by Meghan Kennedy

Name: Napoli, Brooklyn
Brand: Meghan Kennedy
SKU: 9780822238317
Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)

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Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

Unit Set/Multiple SettingsAmerican Historical

What readers are saying

Readers find 'Napoli, Brooklyn' to be an interesting exploration of family dynamics in an immigrant Italian setting during the 1960s. The play highlights the challenges faced by the family as they navigate their American-born daughters and the evolving cultural landscape.

Engaging family dynamicsRich cultural backgroundSomewhat predictable storyline

Synopsis

In 1960 Brooklyn, the Muscolinos have raised three proud and passionate daughters.

But as the girls come of age in a rapidly changing world, their paths diverge—in drastic and devastating ways—from their parents’ deeply traditional values.

Despite their fierce love, each young woman harbors a secret longing that, if revealed, could tear the family apart.

When an earth-shattering event rocks their Park Slope neighborhood, life comes to a screeching halt and the Muscolino sisters are forced to confront their conflicting visions for the future in this gripping, provocative portrait of love in all its danger and beauty.

Press Reviews

"Kennedy has a lot to say about the immigrant experience, the tension between old and new, and the violence that derives from an insecure patriarchy…” —TheaterMania. “A working class drama in the tradition of Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, Arnold Wesker and John Osborne, NAPOLI, BROOKLYN…is always engrossing.” —Theater Scene. “…a classic probing of the meaning of family, the conflicting dimensions of love and the shadowy influence of fate upon destiny…[Kennedy’s] writing…shimmers with an unforced poetic beauty. NAPOLI, BROOKLYN [has] an affecting vibrancy."
— Theater Scene