"THE INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX"
a play by Israel Horovitz
Directed by Sylvia Sether
Starring Shelley Malil, Nick Richey and Phoenix Vaughn
December 1(Fri), 2(Sat), 8(Fri), 9(Sat)
and a special FREE performance on Thursday the 7th
All performances start at 8pm sharp. All tickets are $10.00,
and are available one-half hour before showtime.
The Complex Theater: FLIGHT STAGE
6472 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, California
323.465.0383
THE STORY
An East Indian gets lost on his first day in New York as two teenage punks find him waiting at a lonely bus stop. He cannont understand English, and the boys have some fun with him -- at least it starts out as fun. But little by little, as the minutes go by and the bus doesn't come, they get bored; then annoyed; then vicious. It is the very pointlessness of their brutality that makes the play so disturbing. And as the nightmare spell of the play takes hold and the boys torture their victim with increasing relish, we are brought to a shocking awarness of how thin the veneer of civiliztion can be -- of how close beneath the surface of all men lurks the primitive impulse to hurt and humiliate those whose very helplessness and inablity to communicate can only frustrate and engrage.
