When Does "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1982) Take Place?
"Brighton Beach Memoirs" is a coming-of-age dramedy historical fiction stageplay written by Neil Simon and first performed December 10th, 1982.
It takes place in the year:
We know this because, very early in the play, Eugene speaks directly to the audience and says, "I, Eugene Morris Jerome, in this, the fifteenth year of his life, in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the community of Brighton Beach, Borough of Brooklyn"...
1937 AD
We know this because, very early in the play, Eugene speaks directly to the audience and says, "I, Eugene Morris Jerome, in this, the fifteenth year of his life, in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the community of Brighton Beach, Borough of Brooklyn"...
HOWEVER, about one-third through the show, Jack Jerome says, "Hitler's already moved into Austria." while listening to the radio news. Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany invaded and annexed Austria in the real world on March 12th, 1938 AD.
It has also been reported that Simon based the story on his own adolescent experience.
It was adapted to film in 1986.
