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Set in the 1950s and ¹60s, "Prince Hal" follows a group of childhood friends raised in the physical and psychological shtetl of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, from which some try to escape, while others remain, living lives of quiet desperation. In middle age, their lives converge as a battle is lodged between the suburbanized nouveau riche and those they left behind. Long-suppressed recriminations are finally loosed and painful secrets are revealed. While set in a particular time, place and ethnic group, the play explores a universal theme: the confusion, guilt and pain which results from any man¹s attempt to reach success by separating himself from his roots.

The playwright, Bennett Windheim, has been a finalist of Ensemble Studio Theatre's One Act Marathon 2002 with "Like Batman," and Marathon 1988 with "The Footloose Chanteuse." He has also directed numerous plays, and is completing a 2002 SDCF Observership with director John Tillinger on Alan Ayckbourn's "House" and "Garden" at Manhattan Theatre Club. He was co-artistic director of Theatre North Collaborative for five years, producing more than 30 new works, and is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and the Dramatists Guild.