Word: rabe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STICKS AND BONES by David Rabe. CBS. Friday, March 9, 9-11 p.m. E.S.T...
...strong stuff for commercial TV, stronger even than it seemed on the New York stage. Judicious pruning and re writing have sharpened Playwright Rabe's savage satire, while the TV for mat has liberated the play from a living-room set, showing that the family is sur rounded by a whole world of other equally banal -and equally murderous- families...
...presidential pressure, which the networks can scarcely ignore, comes just at a time when they are planning bolder-and possibly unprofitable -programming. This season will include specials like ABC'S series about Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and David Rabe's Sticks and Bones, one of several dramas CBS and Joseph Papp are planning. If the networks were forced into a rigid formula limiting reruns, they would undoubtedly opt for the cheapest solution, dropping the specials and extending the standard run of series from the present 22-to-24 weeks to the 39 weeks of a decade...
...year when Broadway has been suffering from an acute attack of the blahs, Papp's Public Theater has aroused and moved audiences with such plays as David Rabe's Sticks and Bones, Jason Miller's That Championship Season and Richard Wesley's The Black Terror. In a season when even the tune seems to have gone out of other musicals, Papp's Two Gentlemen of Verona, a high-spirited rock romp, has been a huge success. A kind of joke among his more profit-conscious colleagues a few years ago, Papp...
...launches into an enthusiastic discussion of the potential he sees for a truly indigenous and exciting American theater: "The talent here, the neuroses here--they're great for the theater!" (Pacino himself is currently displaying his own prodigious talent, and possibly his neuroses, in the title role of David Rabe's mordantly compelling play. The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, at the Theater Company of Boston...