The Collected Plays, Vol. 1: 16 Short Plays

by Israel Horovitz

Isreal Horovitz had written over 50 plays in addition to fiction, screenplays, television scripts, and poetry. This new collection, written in the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's, offers a wealth of easily staged scenes and plays for student actors and theatre aficionados. Written in Horovitz's tender, funny and brutal language, these plays still crackle with as much tension as when they were written. In his introduction to Line (added as a preface to this collection), Ionesco comments that Horovitz is a very pleasant young man, but "like all the sweet ones, he writes the cruelest things one can imagine".

414 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 1994

About the author

Israel Horovitz has written more than 80 plays, several of which have been translated into as many as 30 languages and performed worldwide. His play Line reached 50 years of continuous performance, off-Broadway, at 13th Street Repertory Theatre.

Horovitz is Founding Artistic Director of Gloucester Stage Company, and of the New York Playwrights Lab. For two decades, he taught a bilingual screenwriting workshop with writers from la Fémis, France’s national film school, and Columbia University’s graduate film program. Has also written or adapted numerous plays for BBC Radio. (Click on link for listing and description of plays.)

He is married to Gillian Adams-Horovitz, former British National Marathon Champion and Record holder, and former USA Track & Field (Masters) Marathon Champion. The Horovitz family divides its time among homes in Gloucester, Massachusetts, NYC’s Greenwich Village, and London’s Dulwich Village. Mr. Horovitz visits France, frequently, where he often directs French-language productions of his plays. He is the most-produced American playwright in French theatre history.