Israel Horovitz - Böcker

Five classic plays in one volume, complete with a full introduction by the author and a foreword by Eugene Ionesco.The Indian Wants the Bronx: 'Horovitz uncovers that most careful thread of insight - that violence partakes equally of ignorance and fear.' Showcase 1. OBIE Award, NY Drama Desk Award. Line: Off-Broadway's longest-running play, ever. A contemporary classic, it has played for 32 consecutive years. The Widow's Blind Date: 'Terrifying and real ...a masterpiece.' Los Angeles Times Park Your Car In Harvard Yard: 'The best new play of the Broadway season.' Financial Times Cat-Lady: "poignant, funny, and, at times, [a] terrifying depiction of the loneliness of old age.' The Independent

Dramatic Comedy / Flexible casting: 2-5m, 2-5f This brilliant collection of Horovitz's newest one-act plays can be mixed and matched to form several "theme" evenings. For example, nine of these plays formed the highly-successful off-Broadway show "Israel Horovitz's New Shorts": The Bridal Dance, Affection In Time (The Prologue), The Fat Guy Gets The Girl, Beirut Rocks, The Audition Play, The Hotel Play, Cat-Lady, Inconsolable and The Race Play . Additionally, six of these plays were joined to create an evening called "6 Hotels": Fiddleheads and Lovers, Speaking of Tushy, Beirut Rocks, (intermission), The Audition Play, The Hotel Play, 2nd Violin. Recently, an off-Broadway show was created by Barefoot Theatre Company entitled "The Middle-East (in pieces)", comprised of A Mother's Love *, Security *, Beirut Rocks, and What Strong Fences Make*. (*also available from Samuel French, Inc.) Plays include: BRIDAL DANCE FIDDLEHEADS AND LOVERS AFFECTION IN TIME THE FAT GUY GETS THE GIRL BEIRUT ROCKS THE AUDITION PLAY THE HOTEL PLAY CAT LADY INCONSOLABLE SPEAKING OF TUSHY 2ND VIOLIN THE RACE PLAY

Revised Edition 2015When a down on his luck middle aged man inherits an apartment in Paris he plans to solve his financial woes by selling it. He arrives on the doorstep and discovers to his dismay that the elderly woman living there has lifetime habitation rights under an arcane French law and she is not about to give them up. Because he has no other place to go she invites him to stay in the spacious apartment. A spiral of friendship romance with the old lady's outspoken daught

Famed playwright Israel Horovitz has written more than 70 produced plays, which have been translated in more than 30 languages worldwide. Along the way, he has also written screenplays for film including Author! Author!, starring Al Pacino, as well as the award-winning Sunshine, James Dean, and The Strawberry Statement. At the age of 75, he directed an adaptation of his play My Old Lady, starring Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Now he shares tips and techniques on adapting plays for the screen. The book includes the full script of both the play version and screenplay of My Old Lady, along with an in-depth analysis by Horovitz of the challenges of adapting the written language of a play to the visual language of the screen. He discusses what inspired him to consider adapting the play in the first place, and his diligent efforts to distill the spoken language of the play into the visual language of film. In discussing his adaptation process, Horovitz also reveals his brilliant insights into the creative process itself, as well as how to keep inspired during the course of a lengthy writing career.