In the Boom Boom Room - Hardcover

David Rabe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394497694 ISBN 13: 9780394497693

Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1975

Synopsis

Full Length, Drama

Characters: 6 male, 6 female

Exterior set, platform stage.

The author of Sticks and Bones and Hurly Burly turns his attention to the seedy underbelly of American life. Chrissy is a go-go dancer in the squalid "Boom Boom Room". Resigned to a life populated by denizens offering little more than drugs, sex and violence, she searches for love and beauty against this backdrop of nihilistic hedonism. Her desperate need to survive at any cost offers a glimmer of hope amid the glare of broken neon. Originally produced by Joseph Papp at New York's Lincoln Center.

"Compassion for anguished people leavened by a black wit and a powerful sense of the surreal nature of modern life."-Newsweek

"A superior play, perhaps a masterpiece."-WINS

About this title

About the Author:

DAVID RABE is a Tony-Award winning playwright and screenwriter. He lives in Lakeville, Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random House
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0394497694
• ISBN 13: 9780394497693
• Binding: Hardcover