DAVID RABE (1940 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by David Rabe
Basic Training Of Pavlo Hummel, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York Shakespeare Festival, NYC | 1971 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Viking Press, New York | 1973 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Black Monk |
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| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Synopsis: 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 | ||||
Burning |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1974 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Corners |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Notes: World Premiere | ||||
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Dog Problem, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2001 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Black comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | 1 dog | |||
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Synopsis: When Teresa tells her brother that her boyfriend did something to her in bed with a dog - everything spirals out of control | ||||
Goose And Tomtom |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1982 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: struggle between hope and anguish in the human spirit as two small time jewel thieves are united in a strange unsettling friendship | ||||
Hurlyburly |
| 1st Produced: | Chicago | 1984 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Grove Press, New York | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | Dramatic Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: What happens to the American post Vietnam generation amongst the insouciant jet set of Los Angeles | ||||
In The Boom Boom Room |
| 1st Produced: | Joseph Papp at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Knopf, New York | 1975 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | 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. | ||||
Orphan, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1975 | ||
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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 | ||||
Question of Mercy, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
| Company: | Long Wharf | |||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - July | 1997 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: From Richard Selzer | ||||
Synopsis: sensitive drama exploring euthanasia | ||||
Recital of the Dog |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1993 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Sticks And Bones |
| 1st Produced: | Villanova, Pennsylvania | 1969 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Viking Press, New York | 1973 | ||
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| Genre: | Modern American Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: portrait of a foolish, intolerant, religious, middle class American family who persuade son, blinded in Vietnam, to commit suicide | ||||
Streamers |
| 1st Produced: | Long Wharf Theatre, CT | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Knopf, New York | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Synopsis: An American soldier en route to Vietnam is killed in a dispute over sexuality | ||||
Those The River Keeps |
| 1st Produced: | Princeton, New Jersey | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Grove Weidenfeld, New York | 1991 | ||
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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 | ||||