Alfred the great;: A play in three acts

Horovitz, Israël

Harper&Row

Using a cast of three to play forty sharply-drawn characters, this bold work of penetrating intelligence is based on the fanciful, explosive idea that a German Chancellor might, as an act of redemption, invite six million Jews to Germany and promise them citizenship and jobs.

Lebensraum

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

My Old Lady

History & Criticism

Samuel French Trade

Israel Horovitz's Park Your Car in Harvard Yard

Samuel French Inc Plays

DramaCharacters: 4 male, 3 female  Interior Set This poignant drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family in Massachusetts is structured as a memory play. Roddy Stern recalls what it was like growing up in a family dominated by his paranoid and pathologically jealous father, a truck driver who lurked outside his house instead of working to catch his wife with other men. A long suffering and abused saint, Roddy's mother raised two children in this difficult environment. Roddy's complex father is portrayed as a loving man with a demon inside that he fights but cannot exorcize. He eventually loses all control and drives away the family he loves. "A play of real power and dimension... It stays with the mind and heart." N.Y. Post. "One of the most horrific but complex stage fathers in recent dramatic history." Chelsea Clinton News. "Characters spring to immediate life and built in humor helps propel both the characterizations and the plot." Variety.

Unexpected Tenderness

Dramatic Comedy / Flexible casting: 2-5m, 2-5f This brilliant collection of Horovitz's newest one-act plays can be mixed and matched to form several "theme" evenings. For example, nine of these plays formed the highly-successful off-Broadway show "Israel Horovitz's New Shorts": The Bridal Dance, Affection In Time (The Prologue), The Fat Guy Gets The Girl, Beirut Rocks, The Audition Play, The Hotel Play, Cat-Lady, Inconsolable and The Race Play . Additionally, six of these plays were joined to create an evening called "6 Hotels": Fiddleheads and Lovers, Speaking of Tushy, Beirut Rocks, (intermission), The Audition Play, The Hotel Play, 2nd Violin. Recently, an off-Broadway show was created by Barefoot Theatre Company entitled "The Middle-East (in pieces)", comprised of A Mother's Love *, Security *, Beirut Rocks, and What Strong Fences Make*. (*also available from Samuel French, Inc.) Plays include: BRIDAL DANCE FIDDLEHEADS AND LOVERS AFFECTION IN TIME THE FAT GUY GETS THE GIRL BEIRUT ROCKS THE AUDITION PLAY THE HOTEL PLAY CAT LADY INCONSOLABLE SPEAKING OF TUSHY 2ND VIOLIN THE RACE PLAY

Israel Horovitz's New Shorts

This plays tells the story of a man's return to the Iron Curtain country of his birthplace. Frightening, funny, deeply moving.

Man with bags: A play

Grove Press; [Distributed by Random House

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.

israel-horovitz

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

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Alfred the great;: A play in three acts

Lebensraum

My Old Lady

Israel Horovitz's Park Your Car in Harvard Yard

Unexpected Tenderness

Israel Horovitz's New Shorts

My Old Lady

Man with bags: A play

Acrobats and Line.

The Chopin Playoffs