Act 1

Brighton Beach Memoirs

           In Act 1 of Brighton Beach Memoirs, fourteen-year-old Eugene Morris Jerome is playing a semi-imaginary game of baseball outside. Eugene is very into baseball and wants to be a pitcher for the Yankees. He is going through the awkward stages of puberty and finds himself being attracted to his own cousin. The story takes place in the 1930's which is a time where almost every family struggled financially. With Stan and Jack losing their jobs, the family is struggling even more than they should be with money. The family has seven people living in the house while only two of them work in a time of depression. I'm sure we will see this struggle throughout the whole story due to the time period. We will see if Eugene and his family makes it through.