Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Sticks and Bones (Penguin Plays)

Literature & Fiction

RABE, David

Dramas & Plays

Penguin??Books

Streamers

Set in army barracks in the early days of the Vietnam War, this powerful, award-winning play portrays the intertwined destinies of a group of soldiers

STREAMERS

KNOPF

Book jacket/back: This extensively revised version of David Rabe's 1973 play returns it to the two-act structure originally intended by the author, as it sharpens and focuses his searing portrait of a young dancer's descent into hell.

In the Boom Boom Room

Alfred.A. Knopf

Hurlyburly: A Play

Full Length, Drama
 Characters: 4 male, 3 female 
 Interior Set 
This riveting drama took New York by storm in a production directed by Mike Nichols and starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Judith Ivey, Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon and Jerry Stiller. Characters nose deep in the decadent, perverted, cocaine culture that is Hollywood, pursing a sex crazed, drug-addled vision of the American Dream. Later stage and screen incarnations have attracted such actors as Ethan Hawke, Meg Ryan, Sean Penn, and Kevin Spacey. 
"Offers some of Mr. Rabe's most inventive and disturbing writing. At his impressive best, Mr. Rabe makes grim, ribald and surprisingly compassionate comedy out of the lies and ationalizations that allow his alienated men to keep functioning if not feeling in the fogs of Lotusland. They work in an industry so corrupt that its only honest executives are those who openly admit that they lie."-The New York Times 
"An important work, masterfully accomplished."-Time 
"A powerful permanent contribution to American drama...Riveting, disturbing, fearsomely funny...Has a savage sincerity and a crackling theatrical vitality. This deeply felt play deserves as wide an audience as possible."-Newsweek

Hurlyburly: A play

GROVE PRESS

In the brutalizing, maddening, no-asylum night world of 1960s Philadelphia, go-go dancer Chrissy jerks, ponies, and stumbles her ill-fated way through a bizarre melange of family, suitors, and bar bums

Grove Pr

A collection of riddles such as "What did the umpire say at the pancake house? Batter up."

Goose and Tomtom

The Grove Press

Book jacket/back: This extensively revised version of David Rabe's 1973 play returns it to the two-act structure originally intended by the author, as it sharpens and focuses his searing portrait of a young dancer's descent into hell.

Set in army barracks in the early days of the Vietnam War, this powerful, award-winning play portrays the intertwined destinies of a group of soldiers

The first collection in the UK by a major American dramatist Containing Rabe's "Vietnam Trilogy", all four plays in this collection focus on what the author calls 'The Eternal Human pageant.' In THE BASIC TRAINING OF PAVLO HUMMEL (which starred Al Pacino), a young recruit is gradually brutalised, STICKS AND BONES deals with the issue of mixed race partnerships during the war and STREAMERS portrays the absurdity of violence through the characters of two sergeants. Also included is THE ORPHAN, Rabe's version of THE ORESTEIA. In Rabe's vision the American dream has tipped over into a furious nightmare in which war is not just a political phenomenon but an elemental force, like love or death."The fast explosive dialogue of which Rabe is a master" Sunday Times  "Rabe sees in modern America a cosmic despair" Guardian  "David Rabe is remarkable storyteller" Chicago Tribune

Rabe Plays:1

Methuen Drama

Full Length, Drama Characters: 6 male, 6 femaleExterior set, platform stage.The author of Sticks and Bones and Hurly Burly turns his attention to the seedy underbelly of American life. Chrissy is a go-go dancer in the squalid "Boom Boom Room". Resigned to a life populated by denizens offering little more than drugs, sex and violence, she searches for love and beauty against this backdrop of nihilistic hedonism. Her desperate need to survive at any cost offers a glimmer of hope amid the glare of broken neon. Originally produced by Joseph Papp at New York's Lincoln Center. "Compassion for anguished people leavened by a black wit and a powerful sense of the surreal nature of modern life."-Newsweek 
"A superior play, perhaps a masterpiece."-WINS

Romance

Samuel French, Inc.

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Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Sticks and Bones (Penguin Plays)

STREAMERS

In the Boom Boom Room

Hurlyburly: A play

In the Boom Boom Room

Goose and Tomtom

In the Boom Boom Room

Streamers

Rabe Plays:1

In the Boom Boom Room