Hurlyburly

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Full Length, Drama

Characters: 4 male, 3 female

Interior Set

This riveting drama took New York by storm in a production directed by Mike Nichols and starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Judith Ivey, Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon and Jerry Stiller. Characters nose deep in the decadent, perverted, cocaine culture that is Hollywood, pursing a sex crazed, drug-addled vision of the American Dream. Later stage and screen incarnations have attracted such actors as Ethan Hawke, Meg Ryan, Sean Penn, and Kevin Spacey.

"Offers some of Mr. Rabe's most inventive and disturbing writing. At his impressive best, Mr. Rabe makes grim, ribald and surprisingly compassionate comedy out of the lies and ationalizations that allow his alienated men to keep functioning if not feeling in the fogs of Lotusland. They work in an industry so corrupt that its only honest executives are those who openly admit that they lie."-The New York Times

"An important work, masterfully accomplished."-Time

"A powerful permanent contribution to American drama...Riveting, disturbing, fearsomely funny...Has a savage sincerity and a crackling theatrical vitality. This deeply felt play deserves as wide an audience as possible."-Newsweek

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They Steal Your Sweat: Some Prizefights I Have Seen (Kindle Single)

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When playwright/novelist David Rabe was a young Vietnam vet, he followed boxing with awed intensity. Men like Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and Jerry Quarry took on mythical proportions as they not only endured, but gained fulfillment, even joy in the ring. Now, looking back, Rabe finds that their fates, like his own, have unfolded.

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American playwright David Rabe gives language to the physically, and often emotionally, brutal sport of boxing. His writing moves instinctively between exquisitely described strategy in the ring and the personalities, characters, and inner workings of select 1960s and early '70s boxers (Charles “Sonny” Liston, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Jerry Quarry, George Foreman, and Jimmy Ellis). Rabe pries open the inner motivations of these title contenders and lays bare what influenced their decisions and behaviors in ways the subjects themselves might not have been able to express. For Rabe, fist-fighters (and oddly, Monty Rock III, a singer of that era) are emblematic of the common people and our endurance of loss, pain, suffering, reputation damage, and hard work. Ultimately, the past and aging both come to haunt boxers more acutely than the rest of us. No boxing knowledge is needed to partake in this psychologically charged, deftly written Kindle Single. --Paul Diamond

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When playwright/novelist David Rabe was a young Vietnam vet, he followed boxing with awed intensity. Men like Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and Jerry Quarry took on mythical proportions as they not only endured, but gained fulfillment, even joy in the ring. Now, looking back, Rabe finds that their fates, like his own, have unfolded.

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The Vietnam Plays: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel ; Sticks and Bones

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Streamers

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The Vietnam Plays: Volume II: Streamers and The Orphan (Rabe, David)

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Goose and Tomtom: A Play

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A collection of riddles such as "What did the umpire say at the pancake house? Batter up."

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