Seattle Rep's LAST OF THE BOYS: Beyond the Theatre
Seattle Repertory Theatre presents LAST OF THE BOYS by Steven Dietz from January 18 to February 19, 2019. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this resource list of books, films and music to enhance your experience of the show.
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Last of the Boys
The script of LAST OF THE BOYS, for your reading pleasure.
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Witness to the Revolution
This assortment of oral histories of the American counterculture spans a single, tumultuous year from August 1969 to August 1970.
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The Best We Could Do
Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees came to the United States after the war. Bui’s evocative graphic memoir recounts one family’s experience of building a life in America and the intergenerational consequences of the war’s lasting effects.
Format: Graphic Novel
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The Deer Hunter
Winner of five Oscars, this 1978 film follows three friends from a small Pennsylvania town who leave to fight in the Vietnam War, and whose lives are disrupted and haunted by the experience.
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Thank You for your Service
Finkel’s book focuses on the deep and lasting pain felt by veterans of the Iraq War upon returning home and struggling to reintegrate into society. Dietz wrote LAST OF THE BOYS in 2004 during the Iraq War, a war that repeatedly evoked comparisons to Vietnam.
Format: Book
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The Fog of War
Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations during the Vietnam War, figures in Dietz’s play and was a major source of creative inspiration for LAST OF THE BOYS.
Format: DVD
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Inheriting the War
As the pieces in this anthology demonstrate, the Vietnam War continues to haunt the next generation fifty years on.
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What It Is Like to Go to War
Northwest writer, Vietnam veteran, and author of Vietnam War novel Matterhorn Marlantes has penned a sobering and thoughtful memoir of combat and its effects on the human psyche.
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The Evil Hours
Morris traces the history and psychology of PTSD, which he calls “a disease of time.” Known under various names since the Civil War, PTSD finally gained widespread attention in America during the Vietnam War.
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Nothing Ever Dies
The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer explores the differing ways in which Americans and Vietnamese have collectively remembered the Vietnam War, especially in the arts.
Format: Book
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