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...Israel Horovitz, whose two plays, Rats and The Indian Wants the Bronx, opened at the Charles Playhouse on March 19, is in many ways the playwright of the moment. With one of his earliest literary efforts a novel at age 13, Horovitz also took to directing and acting in plays at Harvard and in the Boston area in the days just before the Leob Drama Center. From Harvard, he went on to write and act at Cafe La Mama in New York and first achieved recognition with his play Line in which he took an acting role at the last...
...REALLY into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing," Horovitz said. It is as if the awards were some substitute for the kind of change he wants and thinks he can't bring about with his plays. "I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other...
Herovitz is very much interested in the relationship between his plays and the audience. "I wouldn't come up to Boston to see the play, The Indian Wants the Bronx, I want to look at the audience. I've seen the play 960 times now." Horovitz often takes the theatre off the street and puts it on a stage. Indian, for example, concerns an (Eastern) Indian who is stabbed by two juvenile delinquents while waiting for a bus in New York City, and Rats is primarily a conversation between two rats in a Harlem tenement. Accordingly, our conversation ranged from...
...then began to speak about politics, something Horovitz feels about as passionately as he does his plays. Recently, he has been speaking at a great many rallies and high schools, particularly about racism. But he is as much scared as entranced by mass meetings. "If you say 'Give peace a chance' today at a solid SDS rally you're going to get punched in the mouth. All those kids screaming 'Right on!'. They could have been screaming 'Heil Hitler!' for all the difference it made." Horovitz had worked on the Kennedy campaign and was with Genet at his recent appearance...
...HOROVITZ sees the Chicago 7 trial as a kind of theatre, with its emphasis on role-playing, or at least he sees Jerry Rubin as an entertainter. "He is a smart guy when he says things like, 'Fuck is the only word we've got because no one will print it and no cop will say it in a courtroom.' But he's silly when he says the revolution is sex and music. If that's all it is, I've had that revolution and emerged victoriously. His sense of theatre is fantastic. He writes good material for himself. Jerry...