Thursday, January 24, 2008
 
Book Report: Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon (1992)
This play details two Jewish brothers' brief stay with their grandmother and aunt in Yonkers during World War II. The grandmother is of old German dictatorial stock, the aunt is daft, the father (who leaves the boys with his mother while he earns some money to repay a debt to a loan shark) is weak, and the uncle is a bag man for the mob who's on the run. The boys, needless to say, aren't thrilled and aren't sure how to survive in this environment.

Not one of the Simon plays that I've found that speaks to me; I guess if I would have been Jewish in New York in World War II, it would have been more meaningful to me. It's not a bad read, but I don't know that the play is as driving and forward moving as a play ought to be.

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