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...play, written by Arthur L. Kopit '59, was introduced by the Adams House Drama Society at Agassiz Hall in January 1960. Record-breaking crowds and a 320 per cent return on the initial investment led to a re-run of the show in February...
...Kopit, who majored in engineering at Harvard, maintains that "realism on the stage is just plain dull...
Appearing on a double bill with Oh, Dad is another Kopit play, Sing to Me Through Open Windows, which appeared at Dunster House in 1959. This one concerns a magician who, unable to keep drawing crowds, retires to an abandoned house with his servant, a clown...
...Arthur Kopit chose a standard aspiration, one slightly more common than it is healthy: in Oh Dad, Poor Dad a father dies leaving Our Boy with millions, and presto, there is a pretty girl to pursue the active role in love-making. Our Boy can lean back and enjoy...
...Eugene O'Neill (poor Neil) was the Arthur Kopit of his set at Harvard. And the undergraduate philosophizing that he purged from his system in The Great God Brown is both more portentous and less superficial than Kopit's sexual fantasy. His play deals with an artist who has no capacity for work and an architect who has no flair. Dion Anthony, the artist, convinces the world (and specifically the women) that he is inspired. Brown, the architect, has a great ability to produce, but what he has to offer can only be bought, not loved...