The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Burbank)

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Set in a time of financial recession, Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue explores the resulting tensions between husbands and wives, the hardships and accommodations, the role reversals within families, all as seen through the eyes of America's master comic playwright.

Mel Edison is a well-paid executive of a high powered New York company that has suddenly hit the skids and started to pare the payroll.

Anxiety doesn't help; Mel, too, gets the axe.

His wife takes a job to tide them over, then, she too is sacked.

As if this weren't enough, Mel is fighting a losing battle with the very environs of life. Polluted air is killing everything that grows on his terrace; the walls of the high-rise-apartment are paper-thin, so that the private lives of a pair of German stewardesses next door are open books to him; the apartment is burgled; and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money.

Mel does the only thing left for him to do: he has a nervous breakdown. It is on recovery that we come to esteem him all the more. For Mel and his wife and people like them have the resilience, the grit to survive.