Word: rabe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sticks and Bones, an intelligent and provocative play by David Rabe, brings up complex issues regarding the Vietnam War and racial stigma through the eyes of the supposedly prototypical American family, centered around the married couple Ozzie and Harriet (Timothy Foley '98 and A. Samantha Thibodeau '96). After seeing the play, however, one realizes that things are not always what they seem...
Discipline is what sets David Rabe's A Question of Mercy apart from the earnest TV movies that it resembles. Recently opened at the off-Broadway theater where Rent debuted, the play follows a conflicted doctor (Zach Grenier) as he tries to help a dying aids patient (Juan Carlos Hernandez) commit suicide. TV would have turned this into a moralistic issue drama about the right to die. Under Rabe's focused gaze, it becomes a cold-eyed look at what happens when that noble ideal runs up against fallible human beings. Rabe--who in the 1970s wrote big, impassioned plays...
JUSTIFICATION "He's been a contributing editor for several years ... Last March he wrote a piece on David Rabe...
...season of high promises, broken: To such fallen stars as Brian Friel, Jule Styne and Frank Gilroy, add David Rabe (Streamers, Hurlyburly), whose own off-Broadway staging of his logy Those the River Keeps went down faster than a victim of the Mob hit men it portrayed...
WRITERS: DAVID RABE, ROBERT TOWNE, DAVID RAYFIEL...