Les pièces du Vietnam

Les pièces du Vietnam Séries

Cette série de pièces de théâtre explore les complexités de la guerre du Vietnam et de ses conséquences. Elle examine les histoires humaines complexes d'individus pris dans le conflit, révélant ses ambiguïtés morales et son impact dévastateur. Les œuvres se concentrent sur les expériences personnelles des soldats comme des civils, offrant un regard brut et pénétrant sur les horreurs de la guerre. Elles constituent une puissante méditation sur le coût du conflit et ses cicatrices durables.

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Vietnam Plays: Volume 1: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Sticks and Bones

David Rabe

208pages
8 heures de lecture

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David Rabe has been a major voice and crucial force in American drama since 1971 when, in the midst of the Vietnam War, he startled the nation with The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. The story of a native recruit's initiation into war, it is by turns brutal and hilarious. It won the young playwright an Obie and was hailed by The New York Times as "rich humor, irony, and insight." More than two decades later, Rabe continues to be one of our most compelling dramatists, acclaimed most recently for the Tony Award-winning Hurlyburly. In this, the first of two volumes of The Vietnam Plays, Pavlo Hummel is paired with the equally intense Sticks and Stones, in which a blinded Vietnam veteran returns home numbed by the war and is astonished by his family's inability to comprehend their country's politics and his rage.