| Description |
88 pages : frontispiece ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"The scene: The entire action takes place in a Manhattan apartment, on Second Avenue in the upper eighties." -- Contents page |
| Contents |
Act one. Scene one: Two-thirty in the morning on a midsummer's day -- Scene two: Late afternoon, a few days later -- Act two. Scene one: Mid-September; about one in the afternoon -- Scene two: Midafternoon, two weeks later -- Scene three: A late afternoon in mid-December. |
| Summary |
Domestic comedy. A middle-aged couple have to cope with declining facilities of New York (City) apartment houses, as well as tensions which metropolitan and national affairs engender, such as unemployment. 2 acts, 5 scenes, 2 men, 4 women, 1 interior. |
|
"Comedy / Characters: 2 males, 4 females Scenery: Interior Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment paper-thin, allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors private lives things can't seem to get any worse...then he's robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do-he has a nervous breakdown and it's the best thing that ever happened to him..." -- Amazon.com |
| Subject |
Drama.
|
|
American drama -- 20th century.
|
|
Married people -- Drama.
|
|
Apartment houses -- New York (State) -- Drama.
|
|
American drama. (OCoLC)fst00806998
|
|
Apartment houses. (OCoLC)fst00811132
|
|
Drama. (OCoLC)fst00897468
|
|
Married people. (OCoLC)fst01010656
|
|
New York (State) (OCoLC)fst01210280
|
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
|
| Genre/Form |
Comedies.
|
|
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
|
| Added Author |
Nichols, Mike, director.
|
| Other Form: |
Online version: Simon, Neil. Prisoner of Second Avenue. New York, Random House [1972] (OCoLC)643540598 |
| ISBN |
039448259X |
|
9780394482590 |
|
