Word: kopital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little noticed revue. A Brooklyn department store, unable to take out the usual full-page ads for its back-to-school sales, took to the skies instead, hiring five computer-assisted planes to cough out messages in white smoke. On Broadway, the Sept. 11 opening of Arthur Kopit's new play, Wings, was postponed until after the still uncertain reopening of New York's real-life version of The Front Page...
WINGS by Arthur Kopit...
...serious illness is a prison from which there are only two exits: recovery or death. Arthur Kopit's new play Wings is a message smuggled out from that terrifying Gulag inhabited by a stroke victim. At the beginning of this excellent production now visiting Manhattan's Public Theater from the Yale Repertory Theater, an elderly woman sits reading in an easy chair, a clock ticking at her side. Suddenly the clock stops, the lamp goes out, and there are loud noises. Mrs. Stilson (Constance Cummings) has had a stroke...
...Kopit has written it, Wings is more a poetic vision than a full-scale play, and Mrs. Stilson tells her story in one act of an hour and 40 minutes. It is a peculiarly compelling vision, however, and Cummings, 68, making one of her too rare American appearances, gives a brilliant performance in what is almost a one-woman show. She gives each gesture the perfect size and commands every nuance; John Madden has directed with proper astringency. Wings is in every sense a high flyer...
...Arthur Kopit (Playwright...