Kopit, Arthur L.
Kopit, Arthur L.( 1937– ),born in New York and educated at Harvard (A.B., 1959), where he wrote and directed several plays, culminating with Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1960). This work, published in 1960 and professionally produced in 1962, is subtitled “a pseudoclassical, tragifarce in a bastard French tradition,” and presents in wildly farcical but moving style a fantastic treatment of the “silver cord” theme. Indians (1969) presents scenes from the lives of Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull to denounce U.S. treatment of Indians. It was followed by Wings (1978), a portrait of a woman, produced on the air a year before the stage date; Good Help Is Hard To Find (1981), a one-act work; and End of the World (1984), dealing with the nuclear arms race. He wrote the book for a musical play, Nine (1982), and later gathered six of his short plays in The...
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