Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
New York: Hill and Wang, (1960).
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Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. The playwright's first play directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Sam Waterston. It was the winner of the 1962 Drama Desk Award and the basis for the 1967 film starring Rosalind Russell. An uncommon and important contemporary drama.
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Arthur Kopit
birth name: Arthur Lee Kopit
born: 5/10/1937
nationality: USA
Biography
American playwright best known for Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1960). Subtitled "a pseudoclassical tragifarce in a bastard French tradition," the play parodies the Theater of the Absurd and the conventions of avant-garde drama. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore