page_title: The Vietnamization of New Jersey
section_title: Productions
hierarchical_section_title: The Vietnamization of New Jersey / Productions
caption_attribution_description: English: Performance of a 2007 Alchemy Theatre Company performance of Christopher Durang's The Vietnamization of New Jersey in New York City, directed by Robert Saxner. From left, Blanche Baker as Ozzie Ann, Susan Gross as Liat, Nick Westrate as Et, Frank Deal as Larry and Corey Sullivan as David. Photograph by Trevor Oswalt.
context_page_description: The Vietnamization of New Jersey is a 1976 play written by American playwright Christopher Durang.
  The play was written on commission from the Yale Repertory Theatre as a parody of the Tony Award-winning 1971 David Rabe play Sticks and Bones. The play also sends up the 1950s American TV series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, with characters named "Ozzie Ann", "Harry" and "Et" serving as the mother, father and son of the play's central family. The play's title refers to the Richard Nixon administration's "Vietnamization" policy of training and supporting the South Vietnamese military while reducing the presence of U.S. troops in Vietnam.
context_section_description: The play was first performed on January 28, 1977, at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. This production was directed by Walt Jones, and featured Kate McGregor-Stewart as Ozzie Ann, Charles Levin as Harry/Larry, Richard Bey as David, and Ben Halley, Jr. as Hazel, with Stephen Rowe, Anne Louise Hoffmann and Jeremy Geidt.
  Vietnamization made its off-Broadway premiere in New York City on January 2007, at the Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan. This production was directed by Robert Saxner, and featured Blanche Baker as Ozzie Ann, Frank Deal as Harry/Larry, and Corey Sullivan as David, with Nick Westrate, James Duane Polk, Susan Gross and Michael Cyril Creighton.
  Vietnamization has also been performed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Pittsburgh and, according to Durang, Russia, which he speculates is due to the play's title.
caption: 2007 Alchemy Theatre performance in New York City
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