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The Widow's Blind Date
The Widow's Blind Date
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Author: Israel Horovitz Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 72 Pub. Date: 1990 ISBN-10: 0822212544 ISBN-13: 9780822212546 Cast Size: 1 female, 2 male
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About
the Play:
The Widow's Blind Date is a full-length drama by Israel
Horovitz. Building steadily, this gripping story of macho
posturing, awakening memories and revenge begins with the seemingly
lighthearted reunion of three former high school classmates, two men
who never left the small town in which they were raised, and a
sophisticated young widow who returns to it. Her visit sets off a
chain of rivalry and then moves on, inexorably, to a shattering,
explosive denouement.
The Widow's Blind Date involves just three characters, set
in a wastepaper processing plant in a blue-collar Massachusetts town.
Two working-class buddies, Archie and George, are drinking beer and
swapping stories, mostly about their apparently extensive sexual
conquests. Archie mentions that Margy, a friend from high school who
moved away from the area and is now a widow, has invited him to join
her for a dinner. When she arrives to pick Archie up, the mood of the
play shifts. Suddenly, the play's original macho bantering takes on
new and dangerous meanings. Margy will subtly set the two men against
each other while gradually revealing her contempt for her former
classmates, whose lives have remained in a rut, she says, while she
married well and went on to bigger and better things living in the
big city. But this is only the beginning of Margy's complaint. Piece
by piece Margy reconstructs a night, fifteen years ago, when she was
gang-raped after a party by a group of boys who included not only
Archie and George, but also her blind brother, whom she's come back
to town to visit. In the end, Margy gets what she came for: her
revenge, and a violent, breath-stopping exorcism of the guilt and
remorse that has plagued them all throughout the years.
The Widow's Blind Date premiered in 1983 at Gloucester
Stage Company in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It opened off-Broadway in
1989 at the Circle in the Square Downtown in New York City and has
been produced around the world.
Cast: 1 female, 2 male
What people say:
"Terrifying
and real ... a masterpiece." — Los Angeles
Times
"Mystery, menace,
confrontation, violence, resolution – these are the phases of
Israel Horovitz's remarkably naturalistic play
The Widow's Blind Date." — New York
Post
"…the playwright's toughest,
grittiest play." — Variety
"…packs a wallop that few
plays will be able to equal…." — Brooklyn Free
Press
"The Widow's Blind Date
is a scorcher." — Boston Globe
"The Widow's Blind Date
is not for the faint of heart. It is for anyone who appreciates a
compelling story, tautly written." — BroadwayWorld
About the Playwright:
Israel
Horovitz (1939-2020) was an American playwright, director, and
actor who first came to prominence in the counterculture melting pot
of Greenwich Village in the winter of 1967-68, with four critically
acclaimed plays produced Off Broadway. Since then, nearly 70 Horovitz
plays have been performed throughout the USA, and dozens have been
translated and performed in as many as 25 languages, worldwide. He
won numerous awards, including the OBIE (twice), the Emmy, Priz du
Plaisir de theatre (for Line In Paris), Prix du Jury (Cannes Film
Festival), the New York Drama Desk Award, and Award in Literature of
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Eliot Norton Prize, and
many others.
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