Critical Essay by Howard Taubman
There is no difficulty of judgment where [a] lack of talent is transparent. Trouble arises when a piece reveals some flair yet settles for facile, complacent strokes o...
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Critical Essay by Edith Oliver
"The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis" … is a farce about the invasion of a Jewish country club by eighteen of the tennis players. (p. 146)
Th...
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Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
What I respect in the Kopit double bill of one-acters [Sing to Me Through Open Windows and The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis] is that these "absurd�...
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Critical Essay by Robert Brustein
After the opening of his two new plays, Arthur Kopit was savaged by the press, a development which should surprise nobody familiar with the fickleness of American cul...
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Critical Essay by Anne C. Murch
[Man] is a misfit in the present and this condition is reflected in the drama he creates….
One recurrent element in that drama is ritual action. We shall conside...
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Critical Essay by David L. Rinear
Kopit's play [The Day The Whores Came Out To Play Tennis] is one act long, as opposed to the four acts of [Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard]. He utilizes on...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
The language of the mind losing hold of words as it drifts off to sleep was first explored by Joyce in Ulysses at the end of the Ithaca episode. But it was Beckett who, in...
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