The Vietnam Plays, Vol. 2: Streamers / The Orphan

The Vietnam Plays

by David Rabe

In this volume, Streamers, the story of a group of paratroopers desperately attempting to cope with the chaos of their emotions when they are ordered to Vietnam, is paired with The Orphan, a brilliant synthesis of classic Greek drama and the conflicted character of contemporary America. War is not a political phenomenon but an elemental force, a human inevitability, like love or death, and Rabe’s plays encompass it as such.

Genres: Plays, Drama

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 18, 1994

Reviews

[Susannah]

Streamers finished on February 14, 1999