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The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis and Other Plays
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
150 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1965
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Arthur Kopit
60 books14 followersArthur 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.
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.
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September 13, 2015
ترجمه ي خيلي خيلي بدي داشت. نمي دونم با چه اعتماد به نفسي به خودشون اجازه ي ترجمه ميدن وقتي هيچ پايبندي به سبك نويسنده ندارن . انگار مجبورن ترجمه كنن بعد زير هر صفحه ٥٠خط توضيح در مورد نحوه ي ورق بازي و معرفي انواع نوشيدني بدن وقتي ٤تا اصطلاح رو نمي تونن درست ترجمه كنن. انگار مسابقه ي ترجمه ي نمايشنامه راه انداخته باشن بين مترجماي عزيز. واقعا مسخره است.
March 31, 2013
Arthur Kopit is one of the world's most underrated playwrights. His work is consistently funny, bizarre and built to both please and challenge an audience. This collection of plays features an excellent variety, including a wonderful show for just actresses and a wonderful show for just actors. Biting, scathing, full of social commentary and subtle wit, every American director should familiarize themselves with Kopit's work and it would be grand to see more productions of it in general.
May 10, 2018
Arthur Kopit, on his birthday May 10
Songs of absurdist protest, enactments of social satire drawn from his models Moliere and Chekov, incantations of revolutionary struggle and the usetting of applecarts, Arthur Kopit's theatre of confrontation directly challenges structures of power and priviledge. Hilarious rather than grim, his existentialist-absurdist comedy is unforgettable and a treasure which harkens back to Aristophanies.
His masterpieces of world theatre include The Day The Whores Came Out To Play Tennis , a master-servant class struggle and revision of Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard, lots more fun than The Communist Manifesto.
Chamber Music, another one act play, is a brilliant satire of patriarchy and among his greatest works. In our current ideological environment driven by The Handmaid's Tale and its televised public catharsis and the disruptive change agent that is the #metoo movement it seems newly relevant and powerful. A crusade led by the outrageous warrior nun and escaped prisoner-slave Rose McGowan as our Joan of Arc- no, haven't written that one yet. Or is it a real thing, historical and verifiable, living beyond the mirror of dreams? And how do the realms of the Ideal and the Real inform and shape each other? As with Arthur Kopit's works, the confusion of signs and their referents creates an obfuscation of meaning, opens pathways, shifts boundaries, liberates audiences. To watch or to read is to participate.
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad is a stellar debut and a phenomenol success story which established his reputation alongside Edward Albee, and led to his work being classified as Absurdist and comparable to Ionesco and Beckett.
And finally we have the work which had the greatest impact on our society as a force of change, Indians. a magnificent antiwar play interweaving the Vietnam War and the Indian Wars and set in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. This play is part of a huge and mainly unproduced masterwork of several plays revisioning American history which includes The Discovery of America and Lewis and Clark: Lost and Found.
Beyond these four indisputable Great Works which everyone should read and see performed, through which he has tilted with a quaternity of evil windmills that might be giants, there are the gorgeous musicals High Society (a tribute to Cole Porter), Phantom, and Nine (Fellini's 8 1/2 moved from the 1960's to the 1920-30's and referential to the myth of Casanova), and the existentialist Y2K in which our machine servants replace us and we become counterfeits of ourselves, as if Philip K. Dick and Sartre were trying to escape the Otherworld together through his dreams, pursued by Kafka in his terrifying Gregor Samsa form.
Songs of absurdist protest, enactments of social satire drawn from his models Moliere and Chekov, incantations of revolutionary struggle and the usetting of applecarts, Arthur Kopit's theatre of confrontation directly challenges structures of power and priviledge. Hilarious rather than grim, his existentialist-absurdist comedy is unforgettable and a treasure which harkens back to Aristophanies.
His masterpieces of world theatre include The Day The Whores Came Out To Play Tennis , a master-servant class struggle and revision of Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard, lots more fun than The Communist Manifesto.
Chamber Music, another one act play, is a brilliant satire of patriarchy and among his greatest works. In our current ideological environment driven by The Handmaid's Tale and its televised public catharsis and the disruptive change agent that is the #metoo movement it seems newly relevant and powerful. A crusade led by the outrageous warrior nun and escaped prisoner-slave Rose McGowan as our Joan of Arc- no, haven't written that one yet. Or is it a real thing, historical and verifiable, living beyond the mirror of dreams? And how do the realms of the Ideal and the Real inform and shape each other? As with Arthur Kopit's works, the confusion of signs and their referents creates an obfuscation of meaning, opens pathways, shifts boundaries, liberates audiences. To watch or to read is to participate.
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad is a stellar debut and a phenomenol success story which established his reputation alongside Edward Albee, and led to his work being classified as Absurdist and comparable to Ionesco and Beckett.
And finally we have the work which had the greatest impact on our society as a force of change, Indians. a magnificent antiwar play interweaving the Vietnam War and the Indian Wars and set in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. This play is part of a huge and mainly unproduced masterwork of several plays revisioning American history which includes The Discovery of America and Lewis and Clark: Lost and Found.
Beyond these four indisputable Great Works which everyone should read and see performed, through which he has tilted with a quaternity of evil windmills that might be giants, there are the gorgeous musicals High Society (a tribute to Cole Porter), Phantom, and Nine (Fellini's 8 1/2 moved from the 1960's to the 1920-30's and referential to the myth of Casanova), and the existentialist Y2K in which our machine servants replace us and we become counterfeits of ourselves, as if Philip K. Dick and Sartre were trying to escape the Otherworld together through his dreams, pursued by Kafka in his terrifying Gregor Samsa form.
January 27, 2024
نفهمیدمش درست. داستان داشت ولی بی سرو ته بود. از طرفیم ممکنه بخاطر ترجمه بوده باشه. باید نسخه اصلی رو یه نگاه کنم
June 14, 2023
more people need to know about chamber music
August 20, 2023
just seems offensive, was eager to read to the end to see if it was ‘joking’ but hasn’t aged well imo
April 9, 2008
For University of Wisconsin Marinette's Theater on the Bay, I played the part of Osa Johnson in this interesting black comedy about women in an institution. What fun we had!
March 14, 2013
یک نمایشنامه کمدی. تا اواسط کتاب منو به خودش جذب کرده بودو کتاب به نظرم کمدی میومد. ولی از اون به بعد طنز کتاب منو جذب نکرد و فقط خوندم تا تموم شه.
January 14, 2016
Collection of plays that are amusing, dark, and very expressive. Would like to see some acted out.
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