Indians | Theatrical Conventions
In the following review, Jiji explores four main theatrical conventions that Kopit employs in Indians.
Indians, Arthur Kopit’s first major serious play was, in the words of one London reviewer, “one of the few necessary works to have appeared from the America of the sixties.” It is not difficult to see why it merited such praise.
The play takes place on what Peter Brook would call “holy ground.” Brook was speaking of that common groundwork of community feeling when he instanced “the great Kazan-Williams- Miller hits, Albee’s Virginia Woolf, [plays which] summoned audiences that met in the true shared territory of theme and concern—and they were...
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