| In the Boom Boom Room Contributor(s): Rabe, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802151949 ISBN-13: 9780802151940 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1994 Annotation: Book jacket/back: This extensively revised version of David Rabe's 1973 play returns it to the two-act structure originally intended by the author, as it sharpens and focuses his searing portrait of a young dancer's descent into hell. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry - Drama | American - General - Performing Arts | Theater - General |
| Dewey: 812.54 |
| LCCN: 86045235 |
| Series: Rabe, David |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.35" W x 8.15" (0.34 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Chrissy, a bright and not-quite-innocent woman with visions of a career as a dancer, finds herself in The Boom Boom Room, a disco/bar in Philadelphia meant to be her first step on the road to stardom. Instead, she finds herself fighting to keep her dreams intact amid the anesthetic sex and stimulation that surround her, the psychological residue of her parent" betrayals, and the bizarre pack of suitors who follow her. In a desperate search for love and hope, Chrissy careens from the seductive mistress of ceremonies at The Boom Boom Room to the earnestly friendly gay man next door to a brutally passionate lover. In its compassionate look at Chrissy's living nightmare, In the Boom Boom Room is a piercing look at a society dangerously close to our own lives, and a drama that captures both our hearts and our heads. |