The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel | An Authentic Piece of Theatre
In this review of the play's original production, Hewe's praises The Basic Training of Pavel Hummel as an "impressively authentic" piece of theatre.
At the Public's Newman Theatre, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel has been given a superb production by director Jeff Bleckner and a disciplined cast headed by William Atherton in the title role. The play is little more than a story told in flashbacks, in which we see Pavlo's basic training and his career in Vietnam. Although it tells us very little about Vietnam, it paints an impressively accurate picture of the military life and its pathetic waste of men and boys. The basic-training phase of the action features a jazzy first sergeant, nicely played by Joe Fields, who catches...
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