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Fools

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 7m

Neil Simon

Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. 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 two hundred years, and Leon’s job is to break the curse.

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Fools

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 7m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Fables/Folktales, Period
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
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Summary
Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. 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 two hundred years, and Leon’s job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over twenty-four hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid, she has only recently learned how to sit down.
History
FOOLS was first presented at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City on April 6, 1981. Directed by Mike Nichols.
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Performing Groups
LEON TOLCHINSKY
SNETSKY
MAGISTRATE
SLOVITCH
MISHKIN
YENCHNA
DR. ZUBRITSKY
LENYA ZUBRITSKY
SOPHIA ZUBRITSKY
GREGOR YOUSEKEVITCH
  • Time Period 19th Century
  • Setting About 1890. The Ukranian village of Kulyenchikov.
  • Features Period Costumes

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Neil Simon

Neil Simon

American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (1927-2018) is widely regarded as one of the most successful, prolific and performed playwrights in theatre history. In addition to Lost In Yonkers, which won a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize, his plays and musicals include Come ...

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