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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 9, 2007
Closed Dec 9, 2007
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

In this powerful American masterpiece, four young soldiers fresh from boot camp anxiously await orders in 1965 Virginia, watching the Vietnam conflict escalate. As they struggle to make sense of their new life in the army, tensions rise over race, sexuality, and class, culminating in an explosive act that changes them forever. Streamers is an unflinching exploration of the turmoil and confusion facing young men threatened by forces beyond their control.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Boston University Theatre
264 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Today's theatergoers may be forgiven if they're a bit fuzzy on the thrust of David Rabe's 1976 play Streamers, since it hasn't had a major revival since winning a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play. Thanks to a crack director, Scott Ellis, and a sizzling cast, the Huntington Theatre's first-rate rendition makes you wonder why this play has yet to be anointed into the big-marquee canon.

Although it's the third entry in Rabe's Vietnam-themed triptych of early works -- it was preceded by 1971's The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and 1972's Sticks and Bones -- Streamers, which is set in 1965, does not appear to be inextricably linked to that particular conflict. That accounts for the p[...]


Reviewed by Sandy MacDonald on Nov 15, 2007

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