Word: horvath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Bertolt Brecht, whom he most nearly resembles, Horvath was interested in shopkeepers, merchants and petty shysters who either are trampled by history or must learn to turn tricks to survive. And like Brecht, Horváth was willing to work along plot lines that are shamelessly melodramatic and tearjerking...
...Cleveland Ballet. General Manager Gerald Ketelaar concedes that his city used to be "a desert for dance." But that was before 1972, when two former dancers, Ian Horvath and Dennis Nahat, decided that a town that supported a first-rate museum and symphony orchestra could handle ballet as well. They launched a school, and a company followed four years later. With an annual budget now approaching $1 million, the ballet has 28 dancers under contract and will stage 27 performances this season; attendance regularly runs to 70% to 80% of the city's 1,500-seat Hanna Theater...
Despite an occasional scene that flares up with emotional violence and pain, The Trip Back Down is a play sadly lacking in astonishment. It repeats itself, it is predictable, and it is a soapy, sentimental bore. Bobby Horvath (John Cullum) is a middle-aging stock-car racer whose psyche is skidding on a wet track. His earlier dreams of flashing under the wire first in the Indianapolis 500 have now become the wearying nightmares of a perpetual loser. He has come home to Mansfield, Ohio, to recoup his losses, possibly by never racing again, but at least by making peace...