Sticks and Bones
Sticks and Bones is a black comedy by David Rabe (1940-)[1] (born 1940),
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Written an Vietnam veteran and graduate student at Villanova University, where it was staged in 1969, it is the second play in his Vietnam trilogy, about a son who returns from Vietnam physically blinded as well as spiritually maimed.
Professionally performed off-Broadway at Joseph Papp's Public Theater on November 7, 1971, directed by Jeff Bleckner.
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Performance history in South Africa
1979: First staged in South Africa in The Gym at The Space (Cape Town) in January, directed by John Nankin with Anthony Chase, Peter Fourie, Errol Hart, Colin Jantjies, Hilary Jones, Michael O'Brien and Tertia Zeeman. Design by John Nankin assisted by Anthony Chase, Michael O'Brien, Quinton and Marge Watson, lighting by Brian Astbury, music by Tony Manhire and stage management by Laurel Godfrey and Angela Brückner.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_and_Bones.
Astbury 1979.
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