Word: horovitz
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...said. " The Price was the most literate, absorbing evening I had had in the theatre for a long time. And Williams, of course, is the master-if he still has a gasp in him. Albee-everyone's waiting for him to do something. And Terrence McNally and Israel Horovitz are very talented too. So is Ron Cowen; he has already written Summertree and he's only...
...INDIAN, the better play, was also better cast. Its New York run drew Horovitz great critical attention and a popular following. Lazaro Perez gave a very nearly touching performance as Joey, a JD-with-a-conscience who has been seduced, it comes out, by his friend Murph's mother. Michael Heit as Murph was more a Beach Boy than a tough Irish kid. Michael Hadge, the patient, Gandhi-like Indian, was eloquent in delivering his gibberish Indian talk but not quite as mysterious as we could wish for. The setting was again New York City, a Fifth Avenue bus stop...
...through a series of delightful digs at each other, horseplay, and anecdotes such as the time Murph pulled down his trousers, sat on a Xerox machine, and sent the copies to his friends as Christmas cards. However, neither Heit nor Lazaro really got wound up in the roles. Horovitz is striving for authenticity if nothing else, but created a half-completed parable. Predictably, the horseplay turns malicious, the Indian becomes the victim, and Joey, in Murph's absence, pours his heart out to the mute Indian. As in Rats, perhaps we are all street kids on the street of life...
This time Horovitz came down hard on these themes. The boys discover the Indian's identification card and torture him with the possibility of calling his home. Joey is torn between sticking with his buddy Murph or saving the Indian from this cruelty. However, the conflict of this kind must be subtle, but is no more subtle than anything else in the play. The play occasionally smacked of the "East Side Gang," the only difference being its slight political edge...
Once more, however, Horovitz has written a scene and not a play. The issue are never transferred from the situation to the ????. Perhaps six or seven of Horovitz's plays should be ??ked together, cut down for time considerations, and shaped into one major work. Each of these single punches could then add up to a fight. As they are now, Rats and Indian are uneasy testaments to a pity still one step removed from true sorrow and understanding, filling in the gaps with frenetic humor...