Word: cappella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cappella is waiting to die, but at the same time to be reborn. He can not bear to be released from the hospital even when he is healed, and he consequently reopens his wound with a yellow number 2 pencil. When he sneaks out of the hospital to wander the city streets, he carries with him a tragic note...
...name is A. CAPPELLA I have nobody. If you find me dead, leave me be for ten minutes then bring me back to life...
...time Byron sees Cappella in a dream as young; at another point Byron is made old. Their roles merge. They are really the same person--they are Israel Horovitz...
...CAPPELLA IS ABOUT dependency. Byron and Cappella become so reliant on each other that they merge into one. Byron is submissive to the female surgeon Pauline, but their interdependence is mutually satisfying. Byron is also dependent on the copyist, who, though blind, is the final historical record of Byron's thoughts and deeds. It is as the copyist himself says, the story of slave and master...
...Cappella is a shift in direction for Horovitz. His previous works have been short sketches centering around single, topical social issues. But the limitations were obvious in Acrobats, a short metaphor about the dependency between a husband and his wife. Though it contained the innovative use of actual acrobats on stage playing the roles of acrobats and interspersing gymnastics with the dialogue, Acrobats offered little of lasting value. Similarly It's Called the Sugar Plum, a comedy about a Harvard student who kills another student when he accidentally slips off his skateboard under the wheels of a moving...