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The Play's the Thing
Baron: prize winning playwright.
Photo by Brooks Kraft
Visiting Mr. Green, by Jeff Baron (MBA '78), is a play about the relationship that develops between an elderly widower and the youthful executive who almost kills him while driving recklessly down a Manhattan street. To make amends, the young man is ordered to pay weekly community-service visits to the old man for six months. "It's an arrangement neither of them is very happy with," Baron told the St. Petersburg Times (July 12, 2001), "but once they get to know each other a little better, they end up playing out some big unfinished business each of them has with his own family."
The play, Baron's first, had its off-Broadway premiere in 1997 with Eli Wallach in the title role, and has since been widely produced in the United States and performed in translation in ten other countries. The play's Vienna production garnered the 2001 Kultur-Preis Europa for Baron, the first non-European to win the prestigious award.
"I think it's a well-made story, and it's funny," said Baron, a former executive with American Express and Coca-Cola who later became a television and movie writer. "It's really about parents and children and parental expectations of children."
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