Word: kopital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wasn't the first atrocity committed by Europeans against the native American. When you consider the French wars against the Indians in New York and Canada, and Lord Jeffrey Amherst's gift of smallpox-infested blankets to his Indian friends, it was not the greatest. In fact, in Arthur Kopit's Indians Buffalo Bill even shows remorse for the slaughter. "I didn't know they reproduced so slowly," he says...
...Kopit's Buffalo Bill is a Kiplingesque figure, ready to bear the white man's burden manfully to feed and clothe and look after the savages and try to civilize them. He shows genuine anger when the government leaves the Indians to starve, and even goes to Washington and tries to get the President to act. He is a civilized...
Indians. By Arthur Kopit, directed by Hal Scott. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge. Thurs. thru Sun., March 23-26, and Wed. thru Sat., March 29-April 1. All performances...
Indians opened -- and closed -- on Broadway three years ago, to the universal disapproval of the New York critics. Scott calls it "the most important play of the last ten years... You couldn't see the play for all the coming and going." Scott has known the author, Arthur Kopit '59, since their graduate days, although he has not talked to Kopit recently about this production. The play shows touches of the kind of manic wit Kopit displayed in his undergraduate play, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, etc., and also provides the director with some chance for pyrotechnics. Scott's touch should...
This image of woman was distilled in a title when Arthur Kopit wrote O Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Despite ample surrealistic high jinks, such as having poor dead Dad fall out of the closet as stiff as an ironing board, the underlying tone of the play is lethally bitter. The adolescent hero is in the steely grip of a domineering supermom, and when a lupine nymphomaniac attempts to seduce him, the scene more resembles cannibalism than sex. His only destiny seems...