Word: rabe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season began last week, the lineup of at least seven full-scale plays and seven workshop productions was typical. Set to open this week, for example, are two dramas: The Black Terror, "a revolutionary adventure story" by Black Playwright Richard Wesley, and Sticks and Bones, by David Rabe, about the family life of a blind Viet Nam veteran. In previews is a musical version of the Greek tragedy Iphigenia. And the workshop is preparing a production of Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities...
...Tuesday is Lizzie Borden Liberation Day. While the jury acquitted the famous lady from Fall River, Mass., popular legend has long since convicted her of parricide in the bloody 1892 ax murders. "Fortunately there are some of us alive who will never accept her guilt," says Bill Rabe of Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., spokesman for the 1,000-member Friends of Lizzie Borden. Each of Lizzie's friends commemorates the 78th anniversary of her parents' deaths in his own way. Rabe walks to the outskirts of Sault Sainte Marie carrying an ax, buries it in an unsuspecting...