Prisoner of 2nd Avenue
by Neil Simon
When Mel is made redundant he starts to fight a battle with the environs of New York: the pollution, the paper-thin walls of the high rise apartment. When his apartment is burgled and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money Mel has a nervous breakdown. It is on recovery that we come to esteem him all the more. For Mel and his wife have the resilience, the grit to survive.
