Word: kopit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dunster House calls Duet "Two plays for music," apparently indicating that the nature of Arthur Kopit's dramas makes a special provision for more music than the average play allows; i.e., more than a few atmospheric preludes. Well, there is more music than that, but anyone who expects a quasi-operatic commentary on the action will be disappointed. Victor Ziskin and Thomas Beveridge (particularly Mr. Beveridge) have worked rather in the manner of the film composer: a few bars to concentrate the atmosphere during a silence, music for the dances and circus performances Mr. Kopit has thoughtfully provided; low-volume...
...Questioning of Nick," by Arthur L. Kopit '59, and Maxwell Anderson's "Miracle on the Danube" are the two plays which have been chosen by the HDC. Kopit will direct his own play, which was produced at Leverett House last year. Jan A. S. Hartman '61, will direct the Anderson play...
...interesting juxtaposition, the Leverett House Dramatic Society is presenting an accredited masterpiece of the modern theater, August Strindberg's Miss Julie on the same double bill with a new play, The Questioning of Nick, by Arthur Kopit '59. And even more interesting is the fact that, without any doubt, Kopit's play takes the honors for the evening...
...well-constructed character study of a high school hoodlum. Arrested for assaulting a fellow-member of the school's basketball team, he is subjected to a subtly-conceived interrogation by a pair of police detectives, who finally reveal the frightened boy hiding behind the facade of a tough guy. Kopit's point may be a modest one, but he makes it with skill and ends up with the most theatrically accomplished undergraduate play produced here in recent years...
...shots by Bob Treisman, who scored 15 points, and some timely jump shots by Artie Kopit, who scored 11, kept Dunster consistently within a point of Eliot, but Joslin's second-half scoring spree of 16 points matched their efforts and opened a four-point gap which a late Dunster rally could not overcome...