The Wakefield Plays

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This work offers five classic plays in one volume, complete with a full introduction by the author and a foreword by Eugene Ionesco. The Indian Wants the Bronx - 'Horovitz uncovers that most careful thread of insight - that violence partakes equally of ignorance and fear.' - Showcase OBIE Award, NY Drama Desk Award. Line: Off-Broadway's longest-running play, ever - a contemporary classic, it has played for 32 consecutive years. The Widow's Blind Date - 'Terrifying and real a masterpiece.' - Los Angeles Times. Park Your Car in Harvard Yard - 'The best new play of the Broadway season.' - Financial Times. Cat-Lady: poignant, funny, and, at times, [a] terrifying depiction of the loneliness of old age.' - The Independent.

Horovitz Plays: 1: The Indian wants the Bronx; Line; The Widow's Blind Date; Park Your Car in Harvard Yard; Cat-Lady: v. 1 (Contemporary Dramatists)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

Anthologizes Robert Lowell's Benito Cereno, William Alfred's Hogan's Goat, Joseph Heller's We Bombed in New Haven, Israel Horovitz's The Indian Wants the Bronx, and Mark Crowley's The Boys in the Band

Famous American Plays of the 1960s

JOSEPH HELLER

Robert Lowell

William Alfred

Mark Crowley

Laurel

Line ~ One by one a group of unacquainted people come together to form a line for some unnamed, upcoming event. The first to arrive is a burly, beer-drinking, sweat-shirted "middle American," then an alienated, voluble, Mozart-loving youth; a taciturn type who brings his own folding stool; and, finally, a shapely, promiscuous girl and her spineless, older husband. Gradually inexorably, the struggle for first place begins, and as they lie, cheat, wrestle and push to gain the lead spot an extraordinary panorama of human frailty is made explosively and hilariously real. As, in the end, are the deviousness, the competitiveness, and the pettiness of the small, wasting battles with which we litter our lives. Hailed as a masterpiece of the new theater in its successful Off-Broadway production (in tandem with Acrobats) this strikingly original and perceptive allegory brilliantly evokes the humor, pathos, mistrust and vulnerability of the human condition in the casual circumstance of a group of disparate people waiting in line for some unspecified event. Acrobats ~ Two acrobats go valiantly through the complexities of their routine, smiling toothily, bowing on cue, and, all the while, conducting a sotto voce but lacerating marital spat. He threatens to drop her, she vows to leave him - but then the lights come up, the final bows are taken, and, subtly but surely, we are aware that their mutual dependency is still stronger than the tensions which have been so wittily and amusingly exposed. A perfect curtain-raiser, this clever, whimsical playlet, which was presented Off-Broadway on a double bill with Line, depicts two "acrobats" engaged in a running marital feud while, at the same time, going through the intricacies of their routine.

Acrobats and Line.

Horovitz, Israël

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

THE STORY: The time is 1947, and Stanley Rosen and Irving Yanover, lifelong friends now approaching young manhood, find themselves pitted against each other on two fronts. Both are piano prodigies, and will be rivals in a forthcoming, and prestigio

The Chopin Playoffs

THE STORY: The hero, who is named Hero, is born onstage. Thereafter come scenes of childhood, education, army service, and then marriage--as Hero becomes Dr. Hero (Ph.D.) and begins to assume the greatness that he knows is destined to be his. As h

Dr. Hero - Acting Edition

Book by Israel Horovitz, Horovitz, Israel

Hopscotch and The 75th.

The Indian Wants the Bronx. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Dramatist's Play Service

It's Called the Sugar Plum

THE STORIES: TREES. Ostensibly concerned with a family innocently debating which tree to chop down for Christmas, the play becomes a parable both of man's mindless destruction of his environment and of his callousness towards other living things as

Trees and Leader.

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