Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin...
...Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit. An unevenly funny surrealistic foray into the no man's land of Momism. Nymphet Barbara Harris makes the scene, the play, and the evening...
Miss Harris is cunning and vitality personified. Appearing for her big scene in a short pink dress and curls, she looks like the young Shirley Temple. Her ensuing seduction of Jonathan on Mamma's bed is as hilarious a scene as I can recall. And when Dad's corpse enters the proceedings, she uses his arm to punctuate her speech as nonchalantly is one would a fork or pencil at table...
...Dad did not have clear sailing all the way, however. It suffered a lethal production in London last summer, and was withdrawn after a fortnight. The "anonymous" Anthony Cookman of the London Times wrote of "what appears to be intended as a hilarious skit on the lonesco School of Playwrights," but found the direction and acting ruinously "heavy-handed...
...Baffling and perverse and irreverent as it is," wrote Stanley Koven in the National Observer, "Oh Dad sweeps its audience up and gallops off on a kind of Marx Brothers excursion into the avant-grade." Calling it "a perverse comic nightmare" in the New Yorker, Edith Oliver stated. "Seldom can a production have more effectively carried out the ideas of a playwright than this...