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Bernice/butterfly
Nagle Jackson
Servy -N- Bernice 4ever
by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Synopsis
Bernice, a young black model living in Boston, has fabricated a splendid new background for herself.
Having been beaten by a former boyfriend, she sends an urgent message for help to the lover she has not seen in years, Servy, a white kid who grew up with her amid the projects around New York's Alphabet City.
Servy, fresh out of prison, breaks parole by visiting Bernice.
He brings his black friend Scotty with him, and Scotty has a sex fling with Bernice's white roommate Caria.
Servy and Bernice's search to rediscover the first innocnence of love is complicated by Servy's criminality and Bernice's need to reinvent herself.
When they travel back to New York they are each forced to face their demons.
Press Reviews
"Servy N Bernice scores! Tough, wisecracking, funny."
— New York Post
"Pushes intrepidly into dark passion's mined field.... I left the theater wanting to jump up and click my heels twice."
— Amsterdam News
"Tragicomedy about a fake white boy falling for a fake black girl.... Remarkable!"
— City Sun
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 1992
Binding Paperback
Pages 85
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573693342
ISBN-10 057369334X
LCCN 93122347
LCC IN PROCESS
Servy -N- Bernice 4ever is a American play written by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld and published by Samuel French in New York (1992).
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