Three Plays: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad / Indians / Wings

by Arthur Kopit

Arthur Kopit has been one of our most imaginative, acclaimed, and produced playwrights. Now his three classics plays are available in one volume: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You In The Closet And I'm Feelin' So Sad, Indians, and Wings.

Genres: Plays, Drama

288 pages, Paperback

First published June 26, 1997

About the author

Arthur Lee Kopit (born May 10, 1937, New York City) is an American playwright. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist (Indians and Wings) and a three-time Tony Award nominee: Best Play, Indians, 1970; Best Play, Wings, 1979; and Best Book of a Musical, for Nine, 1982. He won the Vernon Rice Award (now known as the Drama Desk Award) in 1962 for his play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad and was nominated for another Drama Desk Award in 1979 for his play Wings.[1]

Nine returned to Broadway in 2003 with Antonio Banderas as Guido and won two Tony Awards, including best revival; in 2009 Rob Marshall directed the film Nine based on Kopit's script, the principle cast consisting of Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Kate Hudson, and Fergie (singer).

Kopit attended Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York.

Kopit attended Harvard University. His first plays were staged while still an undergraduate at Harvard University. Later, Kopit taught at Wesleyan University, Yale University, and the City College of New York. In 2005, Kopit donated his papers to the Fales Library at NYU.

Reviews

[Jenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wasn't entirely sure about this book after reading the first pay because it was good but not really extraordinary. But then I read Indians which was one of the most intense plays I've read in ages--probably on par with Young Jean Lee in terms of innovative use of space and scene changes though admittedly more traditional but no less striking. I was skeptical at first because I'm always wary about the way that race and oppression is treated but this was fantastic. Then I got to Wings and it cinched the entire book for me--I would love to see the theater production of this. A really fascinating take on the aftermath of a stroke that plays around with time and space in the context of a theater. Would highly recommend this set of pays.