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American playwright Israel Horovitz in Prague

Israel Horovitz

The U.S. Embassy in Prague, the Theatre Institute and NABLÍZKO cordially invite you to meet playwright Israel Horovitz, March 16,  2006, at 19:30 NABLÍZKO Theater /Small Nostic Theater/, Nosticova 2, Prague 1 – Kampa.

Jan Han�?il, dramaturg of the National Theater, will moderate the discussion (Consecutive interpretation) Well known American playwright Israel Horovitz is visiting Prague on the occassion of the first performance of his work in the Czech Republic.

His play "Chvíle pravdy – Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" is being produced at the Na Vinohradech Theater with Dagmar Havlová and Petr Kostka, directed by Ladislav Smo�?ek, in a translation by Alexander Jerie.

RSVP and more information: Helena Vágnerová, vagnerovah@state.gov, 606 654 063 or rezervace@nablizko, 777 929 099/80. Free admission.

 

Israel Horovitz biography

Israel Horovitz is author of more than 50 produced plays, of which several have been translated and performed in as many as 30 languages.  His plays have introduced Al Pacino, John Cazale, Richard Dreyfuss, and Jill Clayburgh worldwide audiences.  In 1975 he founded the New York Playwrights Lab, where he remains artistic director. Mr Horovitz was honored with Boston's prestigious Elliot Norton Prize for his work with the Gloucester Stage Company.  He has won numerous writing awards, including the OBIE (twice), the EMMY, the Prix de Plaisir du Théâtre, The Prix du Jury of the Cannes Film Festival, The Prix Italia (for radio plays), The Christopher Award, The Drama Desk Award, an Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Elliot Norton Prize, a Lifetime Achievement Award from B'Nai Brith, The 1996 Literature Prize of Washington College, an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Salem (Massachusetts) State College, and many others.

In 1979, Horovitz, Geoff Richon, and Denny Blodgett, co-founded The Gloucester Stage Company in Massachusetts as a "safe harbor for playwrights and new plays".  During its first twenty seasons, under Horovitz's artistic direction, the GSC produced more than 35 world premieres, 50 American premieres, and 75 New England premieres.  Plays developed at the GSC have gone on to critical and popular acclaim on Broadway, off-Broadway, across the United States, and around the world. The GSC has received many honors, including numerous Best of Boston awards by Boston drama critics for outstanding and popular work, and, recently, a New England Theatre Conference Award.

Park Your Car in Harvard Yard, by Israel Horovitz, is set in the seaside town of Gloucester, Mass., and is considered a hilarious, deeply moving tale about the toughest, meanest teacher to ever set foot in Gloucester High School and the housekeeper he hires to look after him...who has her own secrets.

Israel Horovitz was born in Wakefield, Mass.  He is married to Gillian Adams, British National Marathon Champion.  He is the father of film-executive Rachael Horovitz, novelist/film editor Matthew Horovitz, Beastie Boys star/actor Adam Horovitz, and 13-year-old twins, Hannah and Oliver Horovitz. The Horovitz family divides its time among homes in NYC's Greenwich Village, London's Dulwich Village, and the seaport city of Gloucester, Mass.  Mr. Horovitz visits France, frequently, where he is among the most-produced American playwrights in French theatre history.