Biloxi Blues (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Neil Simon
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Plot: Comedy; autobiographical
- Time of Work: 1943
- Setting: Biloxi, Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Eugene Morris Jerome, Arnold Epstein, Joseph Wykowski, Roy Selridge, Donald Carney,, James Hennesey, Merwyn J. Toomey, Rowena, Daisy Hannigan
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, War drama, Autobiographical drama
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, South or Southerners, Authors or writers, 1940’s, Jews or Jewish life, Military life or service
- Locales: Biloxi, MS
The Play
Biloxi Blues is a comedy about a young writer’s experiences during ten weeks of army basic training for World War II. The play consists of fourteen related scenes in two acts and numerous narrative monologues that link them.
The curtain opens on a railroad coach in which four soldiers lie sleeping and a fifth, Eugene Morris Jerome, sits writing in his notebook. Throughout the play, Eugene alternately participates in the action and steps out to narrate, explain, or comment on it. During this scene, the soldiers, all aged eighteen to twenty, awake and...
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