Philip Horvitz
April 10th, 2005 · 8pm
"…a salty genius of a performer…"
SF Weekly
ONE NIGHT ONLY, a performance benefit for JSC
JSC's first AIRSpace resident returns 10 years after for a one night only
show to benefit
JSC. Before moving to New York in 1996 Philip Horvitz worked at most SF theatres,
performance spaces and clubs as a performer, writer, and director. In 1995,
Horvitz was the first artist in residence at the Jon Sims Center when it became
a lab for new queer performance. In 1997 he returned to the Sims Center to
present a workshop of his play FAITH. More recently Horvitz appeared in Velvet,
a performance created in collaboration with David E. Johnston and Michelle
Rollman and commissioned by
New Langton Arts.
For his one-night performance at JSC, Mr. Horvitz will be presenting the
following:
Bob and Boris is an absurdist pornographic fantasy focused primarily on the
alliteration of the letter B that Horvitz wrote as a very young man to crack
up a friend. The JSC performance will be Bob and Boris first public reading.
Heart Never Rests is a inner monologue of a gay man in SF on the eve of the
1990s and his 30th birthday. The narrator lists many guys he has known and
very cursorily the way AIDS has impacted their lives and the one affair that
held particular poignancy for reasons he cannot quite label but proceeds to
describe. The Children's Hour is a new monologue that catches up with the
narrator of Heart 15 years later on the eve of his middle age. Framed as a
series of phone conversations between a man in New York and his close friend
in SF, the story unveils a domestic drama between the man and his upstairs
neighbor/landlords and their two small children. The premise inevitably descends
into an updated take on an old and still dangerous presumption that both quotes
and departs from Lillian Hellman's classic: that gay people are potentially
harmful predators of children.
