Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad: A Pseudoclassical Tragifarce in a Bastard French Tradition was the first play written by Arthur Kopit.
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad: A Pseudoclassical Tragifarce in a Bastard French Tradition
Kopit was on a postgraduate scholarship from Harvard University when he entered the play in a playwriting contest. The play won the contest and an undergraduate production at Harvard, and gained the notice of the Phoenix Theatre in New York.[1] Kopit explained: "I had been writing short stories, and I was having a lot of trouble with the narrative point of view. When I wrote a play, I found that I lost myself as Arthur Kopit and I just wrote down what the characters said. I wasn’t anywhere in the play, and I liked that. In my fiction I was everywhere, and I didn’t like that." [2]
Described by the author as a "farce in three scenes", the story involves an overbearing mother who travels to a luxury resort in the Caribbean, bringing along her son and her deceased husband, preserved and in his casket.
Referencesedit
^" 'Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet' History" encyclopedia.com, retrieved January 1, 2018
^Gewertz, Ken. " 'When I wrote a play, I found that I lost myself' " harvard.edu, November 8, 2007
^ abOh Dad, Poor Dad lortel.org, retrieved January 1, 2018
^Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Internet Broadway Database; accessed April 26, 2022.
^Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet, Playbill; retrieved January 1, 2018.
External linksedit
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad at the Internet Broadway Database
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