Neil Simon's Brighton Beach
...ther Stan arrives back from work. His brother, a critical role model in his life, has been fired from his job. This causes Eugene to rethink his morals and standards. A role model has been brought to a screeching end, and this is heart shattering. It is for a little boy to find out that the Easter bunny does not actually exist. Aside from his brother, Eugene also is obsessed with sex. His hormones are raging like the normal teen boy, and he is preoccupied with his cousin Nora. As strange is this sounds, he cannot seem to get his mind off of her. Eugene's family is poor. They simply cannot afford much since they took in his Aunt Blanche and her two daughters, one of which is Nora. His aunt Blanche had financial situations so her sister, Eugene's mother, offered to let her and her children stay. This only pushes the family's money problems further down into the negatives, making normal commodoties like buy shoes seem like buying cars. Again, Eugene becomes preoccupied with sex. He claims to have had 'a problem'. He says that he's had a dream about a girl, and to put it blatantly, he woke up all wet. Stan goes on to explain to Eugene that it's only puberty. Eugene eventually wants to become a writer and put aside such childish things. In the end he finally declares that his puberty was just a phase. This production is very appealing in both it's drama and comedy parts. Whether is the comedy, like Eugene asking his brother, "Stan, if I had boobs, would you like to touch them?", or the serious parts like where his father states, "If you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't live in this house." It is so appealing because it puts a real life person into an actual realistic perspective and makes the reader attempt to put themself i...