The Indian Wants the Bronx

Indian Wants the Bronx, The

    Author: Israel Horovitz

    First Performance: 1966, Waterford, Connecticut

    Published: 1968

    Genre: Drama in 1 act

    Setting: Bus stop, New York, 1960s

    Cast: 3m

Gupta, an ‘East’ Indian in his early fifties, is waiting for a bus. Two loud-mouthed delinquents in their early twenties, Joey (of Jewish descent) and Murph (of Irish descent), arrive and tease Gupta, imagining that he is Turkish. Gupta is frightened and alone in the big city: he speaks only Hindi, and shows the lads the address of his son in the Bronx. The youths continue to play around with a high level of aggression, then do a ‘war dance’ in the street. They play hide-and-seek, which involves Joey spinning Murphy until he is sick, then violently forcing Gupta into a hiding place. Gupta becomes so frightened...

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