Author: David Rabe
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573615832
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
"A savagely comic portrait of an archetypal, middle class family, Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky, falling apart. When David comes back from the war blinded, he is pursued by furies that haunt him. Wanting to return their son to normal, Ozzie offers camaraderie, while Harriet cooks and bakes the foods he once loved, and shares her faith in her beloved religion. But David grows even more vengeful. Ozzie feels the foundation of his world crumbling. In a darkly hilarious scene, a catholic priest called in to give his blessing is, ingeniously, rebuffed by David. Finally, Ozzie and Harriet break under the pressure, for it seems David is about to turn their home into his nightmare. It's up to guitar-playing, fudge-eating Ricky to save the day and allow the family to return their cherished status qua with a tidy, ritualistic atrocity all their own."--Publisher's description.
Sticks and Bones
Author: David Rabe
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573615832
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
"A savagely comic portrait of an archetypal, middle class family, Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky, falling apart. When David comes back from the war blinded, he is pursued by furies that haunt him. Wanting to return their son to normal, Ozzie offers camaraderie, while Harriet cooks and bakes the foods he once loved, and shares her faith in her beloved religion. But David grows even more vengeful. Ozzie feels the foundation of his world crumbling. In a darkly hilarious scene, a catholic priest called in to give his blessing is, ingeniously, rebuffed by David. Finally, Ozzie and Harriet break under the pressure, for it seems David is about to turn their home into his nightmare. It's up to guitar-playing, fudge-eating Ricky to save the day and allow the family to return their cherished status qua with a tidy, ritualistic atrocity all their own."--Publisher's description.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573615832
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
"A savagely comic portrait of an archetypal, middle class family, Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky, falling apart. When David comes back from the war blinded, he is pursued by furies that haunt him. Wanting to return their son to normal, Ozzie offers camaraderie, while Harriet cooks and bakes the foods he once loved, and shares her faith in her beloved religion. But David grows even more vengeful. Ozzie feels the foundation of his world crumbling. In a darkly hilarious scene, a catholic priest called in to give his blessing is, ingeniously, rebuffed by David. Finally, Ozzie and Harriet break under the pressure, for it seems David is about to turn their home into his nightmare. It's up to guitar-playing, fudge-eating Ricky to save the day and allow the family to return their cherished status qua with a tidy, ritualistic atrocity all their own."--Publisher's description.
Streamers
Author: David Rabe
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573640193
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Four young recruits and two veterans in an army barracks await the orders that will send them to Vietnam.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573640193
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Four young recruits and two veterans in an army barracks await the orders that will send them to Vietnam.
Hurlyburly
Author: David Rabe
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573619816
Category : Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Four Hollywood men pursue the American dream in a cocaine-filled, sex-crazed culture.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573619816
Category : Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Four Hollywood men pursue the American dream in a cocaine-filled, sex-crazed culture.
Good for Otto
Author: David Rabe
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822235862
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A psychologist tries to keep the health center he runs in rural Connecticut afloat, battling insurance companies and his own demons, while ministering to the distressed souls who find their way to his door.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822235862
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A psychologist tries to keep the health center he runs in rural Connecticut afloat, battling insurance companies and his own demons, while ministering to the distressed souls who find their way to his door.
A Question of Mercy
Author: David Rabe
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802135490
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
David Rabe is one of America's finest dramatists. In A Question of Mercy, he explores the controversial and emotional issue of euthanasia, delving deep into the ties that bind friends and lovers. Thomas and Anthony are lovers struggling with Anthony's final, exhausting battle with AIDS. Joined by their friend Susanah and a retired doctor, whose help Thomas has requested , they fashion a heartbreaking friendship as they work through the stages of a plan to relieve Anthony of his illness and his life. Rabe creates a passionate depiction of four people confronted with the reality of a loved one's fight with death, and a compelling dramatic event that poses the question: "What would you do?"
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802135490
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
David Rabe is one of America's finest dramatists. In A Question of Mercy, he explores the controversial and emotional issue of euthanasia, delving deep into the ties that bind friends and lovers. Thomas and Anthony are lovers struggling with Anthony's final, exhausting battle with AIDS. Joined by their friend Susanah and a retired doctor, whose help Thomas has requested , they fashion a heartbreaking friendship as they work through the stages of a plan to relieve Anthony of his illness and his life. Rabe creates a passionate depiction of four people confronted with the reality of a loved one's fight with death, and a compelling dramatic event that poses the question: "What would you do?"
Routledge Revivals: David Rabe (1988)
Author: Philip C. Kolin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351983709
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
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 on Rabe, this book laid the groundwork for later critical and biographical studies. The first part consists of an essay that covers three sections: a short biography, a summary and evaluation of his formative journalism for the New Haven Register, and a detailed and cohesive stage history of his work. The second part presents the most comprehensive and authoritative primary bibliography of Rabe to date, with the third section containing a secondary bibliography — including a section on biographical studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351983709
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
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 on Rabe, this book laid the groundwork for later critical and biographical studies. The first part consists of an essay that covers three sections: a short biography, a summary and evaluation of his formative journalism for the New Haven Register, and a detailed and cohesive stage history of his work. The second part presents the most comprehensive and authoritative primary bibliography of Rabe to date, with the third section containing a secondary bibliography — including a section on biographical studies.
Mr. Wellington
Author: David Rabe
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1429998229
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
An acclaimed playwright's first work for children...A gentle and thoroughly original animal story Young Jonathan finds a small, frightened squirrel on the road and brings it home tucked inside his sneaker. But the squirrel named Mr. Wellington is weak and listless, and fearful of the unfamiliar surroundings. Told from alternating perspectives--Jonathan's and Mr. Wellington's--this beautifully written story, enhanced with pen-and-ink wash illustrations, has all the markings of an enduring classic animal tale.
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1429998229
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
An acclaimed playwright's first work for children...A gentle and thoroughly original animal story Young Jonathan finds a small, frightened squirrel on the road and brings it home tucked inside his sneaker. But the squirrel named Mr. Wellington is weak and listless, and fearful of the unfamiliar surroundings. Told from alternating perspectives--Jonathan's and Mr. Wellington's--this beautifully written story, enhanced with pen-and-ink wash illustrations, has all the markings of an enduring classic animal tale.
Dinosaurs on the Roof
Author: David Rabe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416564055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
A tale traversing a single day in small-town Iowa finds recent divorcee Janet's quest for solitude interrupted by an elderly widow who claims she is going to be "delivered to Rapture" that evening and hopes that Janet will care for her pets. By the playwright of Hurlyburly. 35,000 first printing.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416564055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
A tale traversing a single day in small-town Iowa finds recent divorcee Janet's quest for solitude interrupted by an elderly widow who claims she is going to be "delivered to Rapture" that evening and hopes that Janet will care for her pets. By the playwright of Hurlyburly. 35,000 first printing.
Those the River Keeps
Author: David Rabe
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573694691
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
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 to make it as a television actor. He's had a few bit parts, but is hardly a success, and he is largely supported by his wife, Susie, a waitress. Unfortunately, Susie desperately wants something in return, something Phil is not prepared or eager to give: a child. Phil is going nowhere fast when Sal, a mysterious man fr
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573694691
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
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 to make it as a television actor. He's had a few bit parts, but is hardly a success, and he is largely supported by his wife, Susie, a waitress. Unfortunately, Susie desperately wants something in return, something Phil is not prepared or eager to give: a child. Phil is going nowhere fast when Sal, a mysterious man fr
In the Boom Boom Room
Author: David Rabe
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802196950
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
A searing portrait of a young dancer’s descent into hell—extensively revised and returned to the two-act structure originally intended by the author. Chrissy, a bright and not-quite-innocent woman with visions of a career as a dancer, finds herself in the Boom Boom Room, a disco/bar in Philadelphia meant to be her first step on the road to stardom. Instead, she finds herself fighting to keep her dreams intact amid the anesthetic sex and stimulation that surround her, the psychological residue of her parents’ betrayals, and the bizarre pack of suitors who follow her. In a desperate search for love and hope, Chrissy careens from the seductive mistress of ceremonies at the Boom Boom Room to the earnestly friendly gay man next door to a brutally passionate lover. In its compassionate look at Chrissy’s living nightmare, In the Boom Boom Room is a piercing look at a society dangerously close to our own lives, and a drama that captures both our hearts and our heads.
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802196950
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
A searing portrait of a young dancer’s descent into hell—extensively revised and returned to the two-act structure originally intended by the author. Chrissy, a bright and not-quite-innocent woman with visions of a career as a dancer, finds herself in the Boom Boom Room, a disco/bar in Philadelphia meant to be her first step on the road to stardom. Instead, she finds herself fighting to keep her dreams intact amid the anesthetic sex and stimulation that surround her, the psychological residue of her parents’ betrayals, and the bizarre pack of suitors who follow her. In a desperate search for love and hope, Chrissy careens from the seductive mistress of ceremonies at the Boom Boom Room to the earnestly friendly gay man next door to a brutally passionate lover. In its compassionate look at Chrissy’s living nightmare, In the Boom Boom Room is a piercing look at a society dangerously close to our own lives, and a drama that captures both our hearts and our heads.