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David Rabe
In Danny Looks Back based on Rabe's short story "Things We Worried About When I Was Ten" an adult Danny Matz ruminates on his childhood worries: schoolyard bullies, boxing the…
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Wadhah Hasan Muhi
American postmodern dramas depict a sense of the nightmarish chasm on which the American individual, society, and nation rest. It reflects a complex existence and a sense of cultural disintegration…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for David Rabe’s Streamers, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
David Rabe is considered by many to be a major voice in American theatre and holds an undisputed place in the ranks of contemporary dramatists. This collection contains his Vietnam…
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The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, which won the young David Rabe an Obie and was hailed by The New York Times as rich in humor, irony, and insight, is…
David Rabe’s first novel of the Vietnam War delivers a powerful mediation on disillusionment, violence, masculinity, and the search for identity.
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Good for Otto, which premiered in October 2015 at the Gift Theatre in Chicago, directed by Michael Patrick Thornton, is an unflinching portrayal of the world of mental illness and…
A novelist and screenwriter as well as a playwright, David Rabe is a major voice in American theater and holds an undisputed place in the ranks of contemporary dramatists. Streamers…
Nominated for the Tony Award when it was first produced in 1984, Hurlyburly was immediately hailed as a classic American drama. This edition is the definitive version of the prize-winning…
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Four young recruits and two veterans in an army barracks await the orders that will send them to Vietnam.
The author of Hurlyburly again explores the struggle between hope and anguish in the human spirit in this story of two small-time jewel thieves united in a strangely unsettling friendship…
Longing and confusion. Hearts pounding, time ticking away. Early 1960s in a Midwestern town. Danny Mueller’s working class life is one of fierce loyalty to childhood friends, Jake and Terry…
Four stories (three of which appeared in the New Yorker) and a novella bring wit, compassion, and dizzying absurdity to facing life and death across generations. In Things We Worried…
Four stories (three of which appeared in the New Yorker) and a novella bring wit, compassion, and dizzying absurdity to facing life and death across generations. In "Things We Worried…
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…
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…
Phil, a supporting character in the author’s Hurlyburly, takes center stage in this haunting drama about trying to escape the past. A former mob hitman, Phil is in Hollywood trying…
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…
A savagely comic portrait of an archetypal, middle class family, Ozzie, Harriet, David, and Rick, falling apart. When David comes back from the war blinded, he is pursued by furies…
In classic works such as Hurlyburly and Streamers, David Rabe’s depictions of violence and the dark side of the human psyche have won him widespread acclaim. In Recital of the…
David Rabe, the Tony award-winning playwright of Hurlyburly and In the Boom Boom Room, brings his intense vision to the world of fiction, with a short story collection of astonishing…
A Study Guide for David Rabe’s Sticks and Bones, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for David Rabe’s Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Philip C. Kolin
In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. As the first full-length work…
Sabine Altwein
A significant part of American playwright David Rabe’s work centers on the phenomenon of male aggression and violence. The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones and Streamers comprise…
David Rabe,Richard Selzer
Presents the text of a play that focuses on two gay lovers, one in an exhausting battle with AIDS, and two friends who join together to help the man with…
David Rabe,Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Tish Rabe
A four-year-old boy narrates this sweet rhyming story about how fun it is to visit his grandma. Together they walk on the beach, garden, wave at trains, and bake! At…
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Mary-Anne Rabe
Things aren’t always as they seem and sometimes we may discover that we are more than we might have believed. Join Oddy in his journey to discovering how amazing he…
Transportation, logistics, and supply chain systems and networks constitute one of the pillars of modern economies and societies. From sustainable traffic management in smart cities or air transportation to green…
