Word: kopit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has joined the mea culpa crew with this play, which argues that Americans were once beastly to the redskins-hardly a startling bit of information. The format is that of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show alternating with somber accounts of the humiliation and decimation of the Indians, but the segments never seem to gain any harmony of mood or purpose...
INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has joined the mea culpa crew with this play that argues that Americans were once beastly to the redskins, hardly a startling bit of information. The format is that of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show alternated with somber accounts of the humiliation and decimation of the Indians, but the segments never seem to gain any harmony of mood or purpose...
INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has taken up the cause of the American Indian and has tried to mesh segments of a vaudeville-styled Buffalo Bill Wild West show with segments of Hochhuth-Brechtian didactic polemicism. The idea is to spank the audience while making it laugh, but the whole thing refuses to cohere. Stacy Keach, however, plays Buffalo Bill with relish, flamboyance and charm...
INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has taken up the cause of the American Indian and has tried to mesh together segments of a vaudeville-styled Buffalo Bill Wild West show with segments of Hochhuth-Brechtian didactic polemicism. The idea is to spank the audience while making it laugh, but the whole thing refuses to cohere. Stacy Keach plays Buffalo Bill with relish, flamboyance and charm...
Among the serious plays, Arthur Kopit's Indians traces the indignities, betrayals and expropriation of the red man by the white man, with Stacey Keach playing a not quite credible liberal Buffalo Bill. John Osborne has delved into spy lore of the early 20th century for his A Patriot for Me; his hero, played by Maximilian Schell, is a homosexual secret-service officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army who is blackmailed into spying for the Russians. The "drag ball" scene that opens the second act has been a titillating conversation piece ever since the play premiered in London...