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Full Length, Drama
Characters: 4 male, 3 female
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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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The New York producers were James B. Freydberg, Kenneth Feld, and Dori Berinstein. Read the first page
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An inner search for the meaning of life
7 Mar 1999
Format:Paperback
I have often seen or heard this play reviewed as a comedy, a black comedy, yes, but a comedy. I do not see it that way at all. Aside from the witty comments made by some of the characters. Of course maybe the comedy comes in the delivery of the lines. It seems to me that it is a deep search for Eddie from the beginning. It is near Dadaism or Existensialism; he is thouroughly disgusted with the world, women, and even his friends much of the time. The Dramatic question seems to be What will Eddie find? I enjoyed the search with him and liked the play very much.
David Rabe is Awesome
9 Nov 2008
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Great plays. Hurly Burly is one of the most character-rich, deeply self-reflective exercises for actors I've seen. Great for young professionals.
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful
interesting play
9 Jan 2000
Format:Paperback
i found this play to be very interesting. i don't know if i'd call it a comedy, other than the absurdity of the characters. it's one i'd be interested in seeing performed.
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