Arthur Kopit's Books

Three Plays

By: Arthur Kopit

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Arthur Kopit burst onto the world theatrical scene right out of Harvard in 1959 with his international hit Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, which announced Kopit's comic and architectural brilliance with the monstrous whirlwind, Madame Rosepettle. Indians used Buffalo Bill and the formal of a Wild West show to dramatize America's capacity for amnesia and the dangers of changing historical fact into fiction: a demonstration of denial which was the decade's most profound theatrical metaphor for the tragedy of Vietnam and America's floundering sense of itself. Wings extended that inquiry to personal tragedy, a hallucinatory poetic study of a stroke patient's loss of speech.

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Macmillan

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0809015951

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9780809015955

Wings

A Drama

By: Arthur Kopit

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Wings

A Drama

By: Arthur Kopit

This remarkable play starred Constance Cummings in a Tony-winning performance on Broadway. Emily Stilson, seventy years old and a celebrated former aviatrix and stunt pilot, suffers a stroke and is plunged into a world of disorientation and grief. Memories flood in between painful attempts to relearn the basic functions of everyday life. Aided by a dedicated young therapist, Emily's flights of memory and emotion create an evocative portrait of the ability of the human spirit to renew and survive

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573618186

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9780573618185

Nine

The Musical

By: Maury Yeston,Arthur Kopit,Mario Fratti

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Nine

The Musical

By: Maury Yeston,Arthur Kopit,Mario Fratti

In early-1960s Venice, film director Guido Contini is savoring his most recent (and greatest) success but, facing his fortieth birthday,a midlife crisis is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him in a web of romantic difficulties.

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573681570

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9780573681578

Three Plays

By: Arthur Kopit

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Three Plays

By: Arthur Kopit

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Phantom

By: Maury Yeston,Arthur Kopit

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Phantom

By: Maury Yeston,Arthur Kopit

30m, 7f, plus ensemble (doubling possible.) / Ints./exts. This mesmerizing Phantom is traditional musical theatre in the finest sense. The Tony award winning authors of Nine have transformed Gaston Leroux' The Phantom of the Opera into a sensation that enraptures audiences and critics with beautiful songs and an expertly crafted book. It is constructed around characters more richly developed than in any other version, including the original novel. "Everything is first rate." - N.Y. Daily News

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137

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573693412

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9780573693410

Wings

A Drama

By: Arthur Kopit

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Wings

A Drama

By: Arthur Kopit

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Indians

A Play

By: Arthur L. Kopit

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Indians

A Play

By: Arthur L. Kopit

Cast in the style of a vaudeville Wild West Show, this highly theatrical play explores the theme of Americas mistreatment of the indigenious tribes was a celebrated hit on Broadway starring Stacy Keach. The hero is Buffalo Bill, whose life is defined and destroyed by an unfulfilled vision. Like all tragic heroes he has a fatal character flaw: he knows and loves the Native Americans, but craves money and fame. He helps destroy the buffalo herds, reducing the Native Americans to starvation. Ultimately, ambition leads him to even greater cruelty, destroying both the tribes and himself.

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573692378

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9780573692376

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad

A Farce in Three Scenes

By: Arthur Kopit

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Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad

A Farce in Three Scenes

By: Arthur Kopit

Full Length, Black Comedy / Casting: 4m, 2f, extras / Scenery: 2 int. Wealthy, overbearing Madame Rosepettle with her stuttering, awkward son Jonathan at her heels, arrives at a posh hotel with a man-eating tropical plant, pirahna fish and coffin in tow. Rosalie, a voluptuous babysitter from the couple next door "who never come home" attempts to seduce Jonathan and proves a formidable opponent to Madame herself.

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573613338

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9780573613333

Indians

A Play

By: Arthur L. Kopit

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A Play

By: Arthur L. Kopit

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Conversations with Miller

By: Mel Gussow,Arthur Miller

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Conversations with Miller

By: Mel Gussow,Arthur Miller

(Applause Books). Conversations with Miller offers a personal and revealing account of one of the major playwrights of our time. Arthur Miller is revealed in deep and candid conversation with the highly regarded dramatic critic, Mel Gussow. In this series of interviews, which took place over 40 years, Miller is astonishingly forthcoming about his creative sources, his accomplishments and his disappointment; about his staunch resistance to the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950's; about his private life including his five-year marriage to Marilyn Monroe. The result is an intimate portrait of a cultural giant who is both refreshingly down to earth and a fiercely original writer and thinker.

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232

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557835969

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9781557835963

The Director's Voice

Twenty-One Interviews

By: Arthur Bartow

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The Director's Voice

Twenty-One Interviews

By: Arthur Bartow

Foremost stage directors describe their working process: JoAnne Akalaitis, Arvin Brown, René Buch, Martha Clarke, Gordon Davidson, Robert Falls, Zelda Fichandler, Richard Foreman, Adrian Hall, John Hirsch, Mark Lamos, Marshall W. Mason, Des McAnuff, Gregory Mosher, Harold S. Prince, Lloyd Richards, Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, Douglas Turner Ward, Robert Woodruff, and Garland Wright.

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401

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Theatre Communications Group

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1559366761

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9781559366762

The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis

By: Arthur Kopit

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The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis

By: Arthur Kopit

Comedy Characters: 6 male Interior Set Despite the title, it has intense meaning for these times. The scene is a room in a wealthy country club, to which the men's committee is hastily summoned early one morning after a carousing dance. Problem: what to do about the 16 luscious but low life females who drove up in a Rolls Royces and then proceeded to the tennis courts, where they are now disporting. While the committee huddles, we learn that they are the vulgar, crass peopl

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156

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573621748

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9780573621741

Zero Dances

A Biography of Zero Mostel

By: Arthur Sainer

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Zero Dances

A Biography of Zero Mostel

By: Arthur Sainer

Arthur Sainer's research, particularly among members of the Mostel family, has been prodigious and the facts of Zero's life are here. But the author does not hesitate to digress when there is a good story to tell.

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460

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0879100966

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9780879100964

Wings

By: Arthur Kopit

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Wings

By: Arthur Kopit

Emily, a fiercely independent aviator and wing walker, suffers a stroke that destroys her sense of reality. Fragments of her life come together as she struggles to find her voice and herself.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786822970

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9781786822970

Road to Nirvana

A Play in Two Acts

By: Arthur Kopit

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Road to Nirvana

A Play in Two Acts

By: Arthur Kopit

Arthur Kopit's plays reflect diversity: the hilarious Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, followed by Indians, a deeply felt social satire filled with humor and featuring a pompous Buffalo Bill, who both romanticizes and exploits the Native Americans. Wings, a sensitive and beautiful work, is about an older woman who has suffered a massive stroke. End of the World turns to humor to comment on the Bomb and the preposterous rationalization that to some justifies dropping it. Road to Nirvana, the author's most biting, daring play, surprises, and suggests, once again, the breadth and diversity of his imagination.

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