David Rabe
Autor de The Firm [1993 film]
Sobre El Autor
Born in Dubuque, Iowa, Rabe was educated at Loras College and Villanova. His service in Vietnam has had a major influence on his work, particularly in his early plays. In 1971 both The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, which traces a soldier's life from basic training to an ugly and ironic death in mostrar más Vietnam, and Sticks and Bones, a slightly absurdist play that combines broad satire of U.S. family life with a realistic portrayal of the suffering of a blind veteran, were produced at Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. Rabe's other plays of the 1970s were also produced there. Streamers (1976), which won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, is the most notable of his Vietnam plays. Set in an army barracks, it is a powerful presentation of the destruction that can result from blind, uncontrolled rage. Hurlyburly (1985), which concerns the hollow lifestyle of a group of hip southern California men, began a long run on Broadway in 1984. As with many of Rabe's other plays, it explores the horrors that can result from distorted ideas of masculinity. Another recent play, Goose and Tomtom (1987), is a forceful drama about two small-time jewel thieves. In it, Rabe explores the theme of the illusory nature of reality. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de David Rabe
The Vietnam Plays, Volume I: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Sticks and Bones (1973) 86 copias
Plays, Volume 1: Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel; Sticks and Bones; Streamers; The Orphan (2002) 3 copias
Acerto final 1 copia
Ραβδιά και κόκκαλα 1 copia
Crossing Guard. 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Rabe, David
- Nombre legal
- Rabe, David William
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1940-03-10
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Dubuque, Iowa, USA
- Educación
- Loras College
Villanova University - Ocupaciones
- playwright
- Relaciones
- Clayburgh, Jill (wife)
- Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1974)
Miembros
Reseñas
The ending on this movie was not the same as book. I was disappointed because I really liked the book.
David returns home after he is wounded in the Vietnam War. He is blind, yet he sees better than anyone. He comes back to a family that couldn’t have been more typical of its era. Denial, racism, a deep desire to hide everything under the carpet. A father that is an absolute brute, a mother whose weakness prevents her from keeping the family together, a younger brother whose only ‘’ideals’’ are pretending to play his guitar, eating chocolate cake and fucking girls in the back seat. How can David not fall into despair?
David Rabe’s play is a constant punch in the stomach. It throws you on the ground, and receive blow after blow, unable to move. You are frozen, witnessing the struggle of a young, broken man whose life and love have been destroyed, whose family home becomes Hell on Earth, worse than the worst battlefield. We could refer to PSTD, racism, middle-class narrow-mindedness, rednecks living in their own distorted microcosm. For me, these are just words. What horrifies me is the absolute lack of any kind of tenderness, not to mention love, from the parents to their child, the cruelty inflicted on the son who fought for an empty cause. When your home becomes a snake pit, what can you do?
From the beginning to its shocking closure, Sticks and Bones is one of the most terrifying, complex, demanding plays in American Drama, a treasure that we need to bring out of its present oblivion. If anyone is listening…
My reviews can also be found on https://theopinionatedreaderblog.wordpress.com/… (más)
David Rabe’s play is a constant punch in the stomach. It throws you on the ground, and receive blow after blow, unable to move. You are frozen, witnessing the struggle of a young, broken man whose life and love have been destroyed, whose family home becomes Hell on Earth, worse than the worst battlefield. We could refer to PSTD, racism, middle-class narrow-mindedness, rednecks living in their own distorted microcosm. For me, these are just words. What horrifies me is the absolute lack of any kind of tenderness, not to mention love, from the parents to their child, the cruelty inflicted on the son who fought for an empty cause. When your home becomes a snake pit, what can you do?
From the beginning to its shocking closure, Sticks and Bones is one of the most terrifying, complex, demanding plays in American Drama, a treasure that we need to bring out of its present oblivion. If anyone is listening…
My reviews can also be found on https://theopinionatedreaderblog.wordpress.com/… (más)
A solid play mixed with a mesh of different characters in Vietnam, all in the barracks. The plot-line is intense and it jars and surprises the reader at each turn of the clock. Both are highly developed and the dialogue rings so sharp that it is biting in its quality and effects. One for those interested in drama, both American and otherwise.
4 stars.
4 stars.
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- Obras
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- 10
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- Popularidad
- #25,500
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 19
- ISBNs
- 92
- Idiomas
- 1
I didn't finish it because I thought it was a little boring and I have such a big pile of books to get through.… (más)