Word: dads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kopit's greater success, the one that carried him into the legitimate theatre, was produced not by Dunster but by the Adams House Drama Society. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad premiered at Agassiz Theatre in January, 1960. Within a month it was snatched up by New York agents and moved to an off-Broadway house, whence it was again snatched up, this time by Hollywood...
...couldn't write that play today," Kopit told his Dunster Forum audience, speaking in the sincerely self-critical role of the serious playwright. "There's too much wrong with Oh Dad, too much that I wouldn't do now that I did then. In fact, there's a good deal wrong with almost everything I've written. I've got two full-length plays sitting in my bottom drawer, and they'll probably stay there...
...other plays include two giant man-eating venus flytraps, in Oh Dad, and 18 whores who simultaneously break wind, offstage again, in The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis. And through these moments, one glimpses the grinning Arthur Kopit, boy playwright, who writes like he drives, outrageously. He's funny because he shatters all expectations, because he either parodies our reality or substitutes his own absurdity...
Kopit, the author of several plays, including Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad and The Day the Whores Came Out To Play Tennis, told a group of 50 listeners...
...playwright was no less specific about his own most recent contributions. "Since Oh Dad, I have written maybe eight plays that aren't any good. During one which was producted at the Actor's Workshop, the audience booed and threw things, which was interesting...