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...Whores Came Out to Play Tennis is a surrealistic love set: Arthur Kopit 6, Drama 0. Flashy and cute rather than craftsmanlike, Playwright Kopit lobs up pseudo profundities that he avoided in his fanciful Oh Dad, Poor Dad romp. The dramatic penury of the current play may be suggested by the fact that it relies for its climax on an offstage sound effect of prepubescent outhouse humor...
Until the fire occurred, the Charles had not missed a performance since it opened six years ago. It has resumed production of O Dad, Poor Dad, a comedy by Arthur L. Kopit...
...Arthur Kopit, the young Harvard graduate whose play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad is one of off-Broadway's most durable current hits, once wrote a play called Aubade. But he is not the sort of fellow who would make that mistake twice. His middle period, when he was about 21 a few months back, was notable for a three-acter called On the Runway of Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next, a play that unfortunately contained its entire essence...
...Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, mobilizes undergraduate humor and surrealistic props to launch a hilariously bizarre offensive against poor...
...lively decade have given the theatrical scene, including Shubert Alley's fearful fat cats, a healthy and creative shaking-up. Off-Broadway fostered the fresh and uninhibited talents of such playwrights as Edward Albee (The American Dream), Jack Richardson (Gallows Humor), Jack Gelber (The Connection) and Arthur Kopit (Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad). Such playwrights as Shaw, Ibsen, Chekhov, Moliere, Pirandello and O'Casey -all banished from Broadway on the not unlikely ground that there isn't a theater party blockbuster...