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Ramakrishnan faces the challenge of speaking all of his lines in Hindi. In the script, Horovitz translates Gupta's speeches into English so the reader will understand his meaning. On stage, however, Horovitz dramatizes Joey and Murph's inability to communicate with their society by creating a language barrier between them and Gupta. Ramakrishnan effectively conveys this barrier--the audience never suspects that he might actually know English...
...productions of The Indian Wants the Bronx and Fool for Love have been jointly billed as "Cowboys and Indians," but add up to more than a Western flick. Both plays examine people who are trapped--Israel Horovitz's Indian depicts aimless juvenile delinquents who feel cornered by society, while Sam Shepard's Fool for Love examines lovers who cannot escape their incestuous relationship...
...Indian Wants the Bronx, Joey (Mark Fish) and Murph (Blake Lewit) crash onto the stage belting "Baby, You Don't Care," Horovitz's over-obvious attempt to assert their alienation. These characters nearly explode with nervous energy, punching, teasing and jostling each other. When Joey and Murph realize that they are being watched by Gupta (Ganesh Ramakrishnan), a lost East Indian immigrant, they outdo each other trying to include him in their banter. Soon their nervous energy spins out of control, and their playfulness becomes destructive...
...main problems in The Indian Wants the Bronx stem from Horovitz's script. Horovitz has the characters screaming just a little too much. Additionally, Horovitz uses weak devices which burden the plot. At one point, Murph inexplicably leaves the stage so that Gupta and Joey can have their big scene. His departure destroys the closed-in atmosphere Bial successfully builds...
Granted, the issues in Fool for Love do not lend themselves to easy dramatization. But Cabranes-Grant has failed to present the sort of realistic atmosphere that Shepard's script demands. Bial, on the other hand, buoyed by impressive acting, invigorates Horovitz's imperfect script...