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Fools
Fools
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Author: Neil Simon Publisher: Samuel French Format: Softcover # of Pages: 86 Pub. Date: 2010 ISBN-10: 0573608776 ISBN-13: 9780573608773
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About the Play:
Fools is a full-length comedy by Neil Simon. An
idealistic teacher attempts through education to free a Ukrainian
town from a magic spell that has turned the inhabitants into idiots.
Especially recommended for
school and contest use.
Fools is a comic fable about an eager young teacher, a
beautiful – but dimwitted – girl, several kooky villagers, and an
ancient curse. The unknowing hero, master teacher Leon Tolchinsky. is
ecstatic. He's landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Ukrainian
hamlet (still a Russian territory in the late 19th Century). When he
arrives he finds people sweeping dust from the stoops back into their
houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has
been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for 200 years. And it's Leon's job
to break the curse! He learns that if he stays over 24 hours and
fails to break the curse, he too becomes Stupid. But, he has fallen
in love with a girl so Stupid that she has only recently learned how
to sit down. Faced with this dilemma, a hysterical tale of stupidity,
love, and human nature unfolds in quintessential Neil Simon
style.
Fools premiered in 1981 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on
Broadway in New York City.
With a
stationary set, it
is a favourite Neil Simon
play for high schools, colleges, and community theatres.
Cast: 6 women, 6 men (but some genders can be easily switched)
What people say:
"Anyone who judges high school
drama festivals long enough will become familiar with Neil
Simon's Fools. Students are easily
attracted to the story of a remote Ukrainian village populated
entirely by idiots. They love the opportunity to walk around the set
with blank looks on their faces, smacking into walls, and giggling
stupidly at each others' antics like some sort of 19th century Beavis
and Butthead. The people ... have no brains, but a lot of heart.
...Fools works because while we're laughing at
them, we're also rooting for them." — Talkin'
Broadway
"The brightest, freshest,
funniest, wittiest, warmest and happiest to do on Broadway in many a
day." — CBS-TV
About the Playwright:
Neil Simon (1927-2018) was America's most prolific
playwright. He had dozens of plays and nearly as many major motion
pictures produced. He was showered with more Academy and Tony
nominations than any other writer, and is the only playwright to have
four Broadway productions running simultaneously. His plays have been
produced in dozens of languages, and have been blockbuster hits from
Beijing to Moscow. His true success, however, is in his unique way of
exposing something real in the American spirit.
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