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David William Rabe (born March 10, 1940) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1972 ( Sticks and Bones) and also received Tony Award nominations for Best Play in 1974 ( In the Boom Boom Room ), 1977 ( Streamers) and 1985 ( Hurlyburly ).
David Rabe, American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist whose work was known for its use of grotesque humor, satire, and surreal fantasy. His notable plays included The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones, Streamers, The Orphan, and Hurlyburly.
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Sticks and Bones is a 1971 play by David Rabe. The black comedy focuses on David, a blind Vietnam War veteran who finds himself unable to come to terms with his actions on the battlefield and alienated from his family because they neither can accept his disability nor understand his wartime experience.
David Rabe has won several awards for his work in the theater, including Outstanding New Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Streamers," Best American Play at the New York Drama Critics...
David Rabe was born on 10 March 1940 in Dubuque, Iowa, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Firm (1993), Casualties of War (1989) and Hurlyburly (1998).
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Hailed by critics as the most promising young dramatist to appear in a decade, David Rabe made a shattering impact on the American theatre with his plays The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Sticks and Bones, both written in 1968-70 after his 1967 return from military service in Vietnam.
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Nov 16, 2008 · Rabe’s first professionally produced play, “The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel,” addressed his own basic training; the clueless, bereft, almost slapstick Hummel—a liar, a thief, and an ...
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