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...Arthur Kopit. An unevenly funny, surrealistic foray into the no man's land of Momism. Nymphet Barbara Harris makes the scene, the play and the evening...
...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit. An unevenly funny surrealistic foray into the no man's land of Momism. Nymphet Barbara Harris makes the scene, the play, and the evening...
Walter Keer, of the Herald Tribune, found it "an anti-feminist demonstration scored for in bugles, toy drums, and kazoos." He thought Kopit "slavishly indebted to his predecessors in the Theatre of the Absurd," but said he "is easily articulate, sometimes graceful even, and the mists that drift by have a way of taking what may be their most natural and frightening bodily shape." Kerr was ecstatic about the performers...
Richard Watts, in the Post, said Kopit "appears more preoccupied with achieving oddity of approach than with what he is saying by suggestion," and thought the play "has a self-consciousness in its studied madness that can be unfortunately tiresome." James Davis (Daily News) shrugged the show off as "a total bust. Playwright Kopit seems to have a funny sense of humor--funny peculiar." And John McClain (Journal-American) called it "every bit as perverse and nonsensical as the title...
Henry Hewen (Saturday Review) hailed Kopit as a "new playwright of extraordinary skill, perception, and brilliance." He wrote that "what is original with him is the area he so brilliantly, entertainingly, and cruelly explores," and called the play's current production "the most exciting theatre the Phoenix has produced in several seasons...