Come Blow Your Horn was Neil Simon's first play, which premiered in the United States in 1961 and had a London production in 1962 at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
Time: The Present
Place: Alan's Apartment in the East Sixties, New York City
The play tells the story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother leading a swinging '60s lifestyle. At the beginning of the story Buddy is a 21-year-o...
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Come Blow Your Horn was Neil Simon's first play, which premiered in the United States in 1961 and had a London production in 1962 at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
Time: The Present
Place: Alan's Apartment in the East Sixties, New York City
The play tells the story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother leading a swinging '60s lifestyle. At the beginning of the story Buddy is a 21-year-old virgin and older brother Alan a ladies' man, but as the play progresses Alan discovers real feelings for one of the many women with whom he is currently sleeping when she elects to leave him and he falls apart in response. Juxtaposing Alan's hunger for companionship with Buddy's metamorphosis into a ladies' man himself, the playwright points up the fundamental spiritual and emotional emptiness of the playboy lifestyle for which the younger sibling desperately yearns.
The play was made into a film in 1963.
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