Word: rabe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DAVID RABE...
Occasionally a playwright comes along to chalk up the score all over again. David Rabe did it with visceral force in Sticks and Bones, a play in which the hero is at peace only with the skeletons who stalk his mind. Medal of Honor Rag is a slighter drama argued like a legal brief rather than felt like a wound...
...David Rabe Drexel Hill...
...same reason, a California photographer will not let newspapers that print her pictures of the group credit them to her. Since Manson's trial and imprisonment, a Manson cult of sorts has sprung up, making instant myth of his life of violence. A play by David Rabe, The Orphan, tried, with notable lack of success, to portray Manson as misunderstood victim, oracle and messiah. Author Norman Mailer, although acknowledging that brave people can have destructive qualities, has said of Manson: "As an intellectual, he was brave...
...Bones comes as a rude intrusion into our post-Vietnam weariness and revulsion, too blatantly reminding us that David's blindness is still our own. It's no surprise then that the Dunster House version of Sticks and Bones is playing to small audiences, but it is a shame. Rabe's play and this production of it deserve better...