David Rabe Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Exploring themes of life, death, and human connection, this collection features four stories and a novella that blend wit and absurdity. One story reveals the hidden struggles of carefree boys in a Midwestern setting, while another captures a poignant moment between siblings. A surreal phone call from the dead adds humor, and a tale of an elderly woman confronting her landlord highlights resilience in the face of injustice. These narratives showcase the author's talent for capturing the complexities of human experience with sharp insight and creativity.

Durch solche wegweisenden Stücke wie Streamers, Sticks and Bones und Hurlyburly hat David Rabe der oft gewalttätigen Konflikte in der amerikanischen Psyche eine kraftvolle Stimme gegeben. In The Crossing Guard hat er einen unvergesslichen Roman über Elternschaft, Rache und Vergebung geschrieben. Im Mittelpunkt stehen zwei Männer auf Kollisionskurs: John Booth, ein Mann, der gerade aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wurde, und Freddy Gale, ein Mann, der so von seinem Durst nach Rache besessen ist, dass er vor nichts zurückschreckt. Nicht einmal vor Mord. Im Höhepunkt: Freddys schöne und einfühlsame Frau, die auf ihre eigene Weise mit den Umständen umgeht, die ihre Ehe ruiniert haben. Und Freddy, auf zwei separaten, aber gleichermaßen kraftvollen Reisen – einer, um herauszufinden, wie ein Mann in Amerika mit unaufhaltsamer Qual umgeht, und die andere seine manische Suche nach John Booth, einem Mann, der mit einer Waffe wartet.

This collection of modern American plays, introduced by Brooks McNamara, includes "Streamers" by David Rabe, "Crimes of the Heart" by Beth Henley, and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" by August Wilson, with five others

Six plays deal with the Vietnam War, college students, an interracial relationship, an unusual couple who have an annual rendezvous, a surprise birthday party, and a terrible family secret

With his earlier plays— The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel , Sticks and Bones , and In the Boom Boom Room —David Rabe established himself as one of America's leading young playwrights. Streamers is his most powerful and successful play. Set in an army barracks in the early days of the Vietnam War, Streamers has electrified audiences from its first performance with its explosive portrayal of a handful of soldiers and their fatally intertwined destinies...Richie, a wealthy neurotic who cannot resist temptation...Billy, an earnest midwestern straight arrow...Roger, a street-wise refugee from the ghetto...Carlyle, a pathological misfit who threatens the order and the substance of their lives...and Sergeants Cokes and Rooney, two aging dipsomaniacal soldiers whose grimly humorous song (about parachutes that fail to open) gives the play both its title and its fundamentally compassionate tone: Beautiful streamer, Open for me, The sky is above me, But no canopy. Streamers is a classic of the American theater.