Israel Horovitz, Vol. I: 16 Short Plays (Contemporary Playwrights)

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".