Not the Brighton with which most of us are familiar, but Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York. Set in 1937 at the home of Eugene Jerome, a precocious 15 year-old, whose burning ambition to be a writer involves him in committing all the happenings of his household to his 'memoirs'.

This central role of Eugene in the play is supposedly a portrait of Neil Simon himself as a young boy - growing up in a Jewish household in New York just before the United States entered the Second World War.

This delightful play contains both hilarious and moving scenes and it will be difficult not to get involved in the situation of two families, with four teenagers, all living under one roof! Were teenagers so different in 1937 from what they are today?

For Neil Simon this comedy is another in a long line of the playwright's outstanding successes on both sides of the Atlantic. It was the winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. Again Simon has found the winning formula which leaves audiences wiping away their tears one moment and rocking with laughter the next.