The Widow's Blind Date

Someone returns to a musty little town with a couple of thousands of inhabitants after over a decade of allegedly successful life in more cosmopolitan climates: widow Marta Golob (married name: Orel). Due to circumstances she meets two old school-friends who never left town in a local wastepaper company. In an emotionally charged evening it turns out that the relationships between them have not changed all that much.

In a drunken night, filled with dirty newspapers, bloody stories, interpersonal fights and account-settling, beer cans and cartons of take-away sweet and sour pork, together with old memories dirty old secrets start seeping out from a conversation of three former school-friends, secrets they have more or less successfully quashed, but that have marked them all, forever. In the middle of the wastepaper factory, an old baling machine seems like a premonition: it can help recycle and conceal the past, but cannot possibly erase it forever …

The Widow's Blind Date by the contemporary American playwright and scriptwriter Israel Horovitz (1939) is a psychologically intense play with elements of absurdist humour, originally set in the environment of a provincial town without news, without events, without changes and without people who succeeded in life.