David Rabe and Stephanie Coen (interview date July-August 1997)
SOURCE: Rabe, David and Stephanie Coen. “When Reason Fails.” American Theatre 14, no. 6 (July-August 1997): 22.
[In the following interview, Rabe discusses his dramatic adaptation of A Question of Mercy.]
[Coen]: What led you to dramatize the essay by Richard Selzer?
[Rabe]: The piece was originally published in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, and when I read it, I was stunned by it as it unfolded. I had been in talks with American Playhouse...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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