(b. 1937)
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1960 | Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Bad. Kopit's first produced play treats a dominating woman who travels with her husband's stuffed corpse and her timid son. Called "a pseudo-tragifarce," the play becomes an off-Broadway sensation and would transfer to Broadway for a brief run in 1963. |
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1969 | Indians. One of the groundbreaking dramas of the decade is this depiction of American hypocrisy and violence during the nineteenth century, as scenes from the lives of Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody are juxtaposed in a scathing, symbolic attack on American genocide. The play had first been produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 1968. |
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1979 | Wings. Originally written as a radio play and first produced at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1978, Kopit's drama about the recovery of a stroke victim employs innovative staging techniques to replicate the healing process. |
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1984 | End of the World. Like much of Kopit's other work, this play explores the corrupting forces in American life. A playwright becomes a private investigator and exposes the parties responsible for nuclear proliferation. Kopit uses black humor to explore this troubling subject and shows how easily even his good characters are caught up in the momentum toward destruction. |
