Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad | Oh Dad as a Parodic Satire
In this essay Fiero examines Oh
Dad as parodic satire using the techniques of what
Kopit himself, in the play’s subtitle, called ‘‘a
bastard French tradition.’’
More than any other commercially successful American play identified with the Theatre of the Absurd, Arthur Kopit’s Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad exemplifies a widely-held belief among experimental playwrights: the social and political climate of America in the early-1960s was inhospitable to the reputed nihilism underlying the tragic farces of European playwrights of the absurd like Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, and Eugene Ionesco. What was clearly missing in the post- [The entire page is 1919 words long] The above is a free excerpt. Get total access to this content with the:
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