Dec 27, 2009

Indians | Critical Overview

The 1968 opening of Indians in London was greeted with a mixture of puzzlement and guarded praise. People wondered why a show that was so thoroughly American would first be staged in Britain. Irving Wardle, reviewing for the London Times proclaims: “the play is one of the few necessary works to have appeared from the America of the sixties. Whatever holes you care to pick, it is a work of high ambition.” Stateside, drama critic Clive Barnes, also reviewing the London production, writes that Kopit’s play is “only partially successful” and that “the play is at its...