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Rabe's first play in his Vietnam War trilogy that continued with Sticks and Bones and Streamers, its story is bracketed by scenes depicting the death of the everyman-like title character, who mindlessly grabs at a live hand grenade tossed into the Saigon brothel he is visiting.
David Rabe’s The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel was the first American play of stature to deal with the experience of the Vietnam War.
"The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" is a play by David Rabe. Written in 1971 and set during the Vietnam War, the play follows a hapless young native man as he undergoes basic military training. It’s the first of Rabe’s Vietnam Plays , and it premiered in New York City’s Public Theater.
Oct 30, 2014 · “These plays” were his Vietnam trilogy—The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones and Streamers. The first two are the only Vietnam plays to appear on Broadway while the war was...
Sticks and Bones is one of several plays playwright David Rabe wrote about the Vietnam War and its effect on those who fought in it. In this play, a black comedy/drama, Rabe focuses on David, a physically blind veteran who has returned home to his morally blind family.
by David Rabe. The Play. PDF Cite Share. The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel opens in a Vietnamese bar. American pop music blares from the radio while Pavlo Hummel, a young soldier dressed...
During this period, he wrote his first play, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, which is considered one of the first important works of literature to treat the Vietnam War.
