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Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You In the Closet And I'm Feelin' So Sad.
by Kopit, Arthur L
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- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
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Kopit, Arthur L: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You In the Closet And I'm Feelin' So Sad. Subtitled A Pseudoclassical Tragifarce in a Bastard French Tradition. Hill And Wang, NY, 1960 FIRST EDITION. USED. GOOD/ GOOD ORIGINAL PRICE-CLIPPED DUST JACKET. DJ is in nice shape, protected in mylar wrap. Arthur Kopit's first play - an absurdist farce set in a posh hotel - took the theatre world by storm, winning the Drama Desk's Vernon Rice award and inspiring a hit film. HERMIONE GINGOLD FRONTIS. 89 pages. 5 3/4 X 8 1/2. Produced on Broadway by Roger L. Stevens. Directed by Jose Ferrer. Also produced as a film starring Rosaline Russell and Howard Morse. Plot Summary: "Described by Kopit 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."
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- Mary Riversong Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014KopitDad
- Title
- Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You In the Closet And I'm Feelin' So Sad.
- Author
- Kopit, Arthur L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hill And Wang
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 89
- Size
- 5 3/4 X 8 1/2
- Weight
- 0.00
- Keywords
- Theater, Play, Farce, Bastard French, Traditional, Performing Arts, Arthur L. Kopit, Black Comedy, Hermione Gingold, Death, Family, Coming Of Age, Decadence, Dissolution, Fashion & Costume, Americana, 20th Century, Face, Absurdist, Theater of the Absurd,
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- For Sale; Performing Arts; Americana; Fantasy; Social Sciences; Travel; Parenting; Family; Horror; Humor; Photography; Fiction; Dust Jacket; Tragedy; momentos; Fashion and Costume;
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Salem, Oregon
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