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Streamers is a play by David Rabe. Plot synopsis [ edit ] The last in his Vietnam War trilogy that began with The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Sticks and Bones , [1] it focuses on the interactions and personal conflicts of a group of soldiers preparing to ship out to fight in the Vietnam War in 1965.
Sep 20, 1979 · In David Rabe's "Streamers," the army is a pressure cooker that generates fierce words, sex, blood and some terrific theater. And the production that opened last night at the tiny Back Alley ...
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Aug 15, 2010 · Aug. 14, 2010. Paul Ryan Rudd, an actor of the 1970s and ’80s who came to his profession late and left it early but in between drew critical praise for his work on Broadway and in the New York ...
Nov 12, 2008 · Not so with “Streamers,” David Rabe’s 1976 drama about the tensions among a group of soldiers contemplating the looming shadow of the escalating Vietnam War. Despite the clarity of the new ...
Revived in 2008 by the Roundabout Theatre, the third in author Rabe's quartet of "Vietnam Plays" is set in the Army barracks housing a group of young men, the "streamers" of the title:...
- David Rabe
- 057364019X, 9780573640193
- illustrated, reprint, revised
- Samuel French, Inc., 1977
Apr 12, 1977 · David Rabe. 3.58. 184 ratings8 reviews. With his earlier plays— The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel , Sticks and Bones , and In the Boom Boom Room —David Rabe established himself as one of America's leading young playwrights. Streamers is his most powerful and successful play.Set in an army barracks in the early days of the Vietnam War ...
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Revived in 2008 by the Roundabout Theatre, the third in author Rabe's quartet of "Vietnam Plays" is set in the Army barracks housing a group of young men, the "streamers" of the title: hapless parachutists who streak to certain death when their parachutes fail to open. This group includes Billy, a new recruit; Roger, a street-wise refugee from ...
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