"My First Sony" Performance and Talkback

Description

Israeli actor/director Roy Horovitz returns to American University to perform “MY FIRST SONY,” based on an Israeli best-selling novel by Benny Barbash.  Talkback and reception following performance.  Running time: 60 minutes. 

MY FIRST SONY is the story of the deterioration of an Israeli family, told by Yotam, an eleven-year-old child. Obsessed with documentation, he records everything in his children's tape recorder, "My First Sony". He follows the events and reports them accurately, a fact which emphasizes the comic aspect of painful developments in his life, such as his parents’ separation and the inevitable ending… 

This award-winning monodrama has toured Israel and abroad (Germany, U.S.A., Canada, Egypt…) to great acclaim for over 25 years now, and enjoyed rave reviews: 

"A poignant, moving piece of theatre with a rather shocking ending, a beguiling exploration of a father-son relationship filtered through a young boy's eyes" (The Sunday Independent, South Africa)