Jules Feiffer's LITTLE MURDERS

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Feiffer's black comedy about people coping in a world full of random shootings opened on Broadway in 1967. And closed the first week.

Grotesque! Monstrous! (It probably seemed like "Springtime for Hitler&quot

But after the assassinations of MLK and RFK and another summer of riots it was re-staged off-Broadway and was a hit.

It was made into a movie in 1971, directed by Alan Arkin, who also appeared in it. The film starred Eliot Gould and Donald Sutherland had a role. It was to dark and bizarre for a national audience. But by 1980 it seemed a little obvious... a world of random shootings? Meh.

So take heart, artists... if your dystopic vision is too outre for today it may work five years from now. (And seem like a documentary in ten years, and be camp after fifteen.)

[flamingdem]

1. Worth checking that out! n/t