Korea
by Bill Bozzone

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1960sUnit Set/Multiple SettingsPeriod CostumesAmerican

Synopsis

In 1968, during the height of the Vietnam war, Bobby Costello and Walter Dybek two young men barely out of their teens are sent to Korea with their Air National Guard unit.

Bobby, "Dear John ed" by his girlfriend at home, quickly falls in love with a Korean woman named Chae.

Walter, feeling abandoned by his lifelong buddy, chooses to befriend Stokes, a domineering bigot he and Bobby bunk with.

Constantly haunting all of them are the foreboding radio reports involving the war in Vietnam and the racial unrest in the United States.

Sides are being chosen, even among the G.I.'s who have pledged to stand together, and the moral values of both Bobby and Walter soon come into question.

By the play's end, Bobby realizes the responsibility he has to himself and to society, while walter plunges blithely into a darker world of hate.

Press Reviews

"[Makes] deft observations ... about the nonmilitant military life and a young man's desire to come of age."

— New York Times

Publication

PublisherSamuel French
Year1992
BindingPaperback
Pages106
PlaceNew York
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780573693564
ISBN-100573693560
LCCN92244417
LCCPS3552.O99 K67 1992
DCC812/.54

Korea is a American play written by Bill Bozzone and published by Samuel French in New York (1992).

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Samuel French · 1992 · 106 pp

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