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DAVID RABE (1940 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Gersh Agency, NY |
Born in Dubuque, IA on March 10, 1940. Attended Loras College and Villanova University for M.A. in Theatre. Recipient: Obie Award; Variety Award; Drama Desk Award; Elizabeth Hull-Kate Warriner Drama Guild Award (twice); John Gassner Outer Critics Circle Award; New York Drama Critics Award for Streamers; Tony Award for Sticks and Bones.
Plays by David Rabe
Basic Training Of Pavlo Hummel, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York Shakespeare Festival, NYC | 1971 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Viking Press, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0670003679 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28714 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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| U.S. soldier Pavlo Hummel is relaxing in a brothel in Vietnam when a grenade is thrown through the window. He is mortally wounded. Ardel a black soldier in a strange uniform appears and together they look back on Pavlo's military career | |||||
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Black Monk | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in "The Black Monk/The Dog Problem | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1439141885 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89359 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Escaping from the demands of the city Kovrin goes to the estate owned by Pesotsky where he spent his childhood. He is visited by an emissary of the legendary Black Monk | |||||
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Burning | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28715 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Corners | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28716 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | World Premiere | |||||
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Dog Problem, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Atlantic Theater Company, New York | 06 May 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in "The Black Monk/The Dog Problem | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1439141886 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73621 | |||
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Genre: | Black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 dog | |||||
Notes: | Based on "Corners" | |||||
Synopsis: | When Teresa tells her brother that her boyfriend did something to her in bed with a dog - everything spirals out of control | |||||
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Early History of Fire, An | ||
| 1st Produced: | Acorn Theatre | 05 Apr 2012 | ||||
Company: | The New Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138506 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An Early History of Fire is set in a small Midwestern town at the tipping point of the early 1960s. A few years out of high school, Danny finds his days defined by friendship and loyaltybut a confusing new world encroaches in the form of Karen, back from college in the East, alluring and unsettling because of all she has learned. Awhirl in longing and eyeing a chance for radical change, Danny struggles against the grip of his immigrant father, who clings to his only son while mourning a vanished world of lost prestige. | |||||
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Goose And Tomtom | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28717 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | struggle between hope and anguish in the human spirit as two small time jewel thieves are united in a strange unsettling friendship | |||||
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Hurlyburly | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chicago | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Grove Press, New York, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0394546094 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28718 | |||
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Genre: | Dramatic Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| What happens to the American post Vietnam generation amongst the insouciant jet set of Los Angeles | |||||
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In The Boom Boom Room | ||
| 1st Produced: | Joseph Papp at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Knopf, New York, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28719 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | dancers | |||||
Notes: | aka Boom-Boom Room | |||||
Synopsis: | Chrissie a go-go dancer was abused as a child. She drifts into unsuitable relationships with both men and women. Her new neighbour, Guy, who is gay tries to befriend her but she is on a downward spiral. | |||||
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Orphan, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28720 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | Part 3 of Vietnam trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | uses Oriesta as its framework and makes connections between Charles Manson violence and that in Vietnam | |||||
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Question of Mercy, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | Long Wharf | |||||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - July, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28721 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation. - - AIDS, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | From Richard Selzer | |||||
Synopsis: | sensitive drama exploring euthanasia | |||||
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Recital of the Dog | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73622 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
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Sticks And Bones | ||
| 1st Produced: | Villanova, Pennsylvania | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Viking Press, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0670003679 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28722 | |||
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Genre: | Modern American Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| portrait of a foolish, intolerant, religious, middle class American family who persuade son, blinded in Vietnam, to commit suicide | |||||
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Streamers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Long Wharf Theatre, CT | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Knopf, New York, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978--0394411200 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28723 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
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| An American soldier en route to Vietnam is killed in a dispute over sexuality | |||||
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Those The River Keeps | ||
| 1st Produced: | Princeton, New Jersey | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28724 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | a former mob hitman attempting to become a TV actor is tempted back much to the disgust of his supportive wife | |||||
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