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Beggar on Horseback
- Beggar on Horseback (written with Marc Connelly), the only commercially successful American expressionist play, satirized the American obsession with success, as if Kaufman were trying to exorcise the ghosts of failure from his own childhood.
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George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 – June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theater director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals for the Marx Brothers and others.
Throughout his life he contributed short sketches, prose humor, and light verse to such magazines as Saturday Review, The Nation, Life, Theatre magazine, Playbill, and The New Yorker (founded...
George S. Kaufman was the most successful playwright in the American theater during Broadway's golden years between the two World Wars. His particular brand of sharp comedy and satire produced forty-five Broadway plays, the majority of which were successes; all but one of which were written in collaboration with other authors.
May 23, 2018 · His musical satire, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Of Thee I Sing (1931), written with Morrie Ryskind, hilariously indicts the chicanery of politicians. He collaborated with Ryskind again on the musical Let 'Em Eat Cake (1933). In First Lady (1935) he again derided politicians.
He was known for his wit and satire, and his work helped shape the American theater in the early 20th century. Kaufman began his career as a journalist, writing for newspapers and magazines.
Inspired by the rise of the talkies—movies with sound—and the excess of Hollywood, the play is a wisecracking satire, though not particularly mean or bitter. Hart had originally written the play in 1929. Kaufman, a more established comic playwright, collaborated with Hart on several rewrites in late 1929 and early 1930.
Oct 24, 2004 · Did Kaufman have his flops and are the plays dated? To work in the theater is to strike out as often as not. A much-quoted line of his is "Satire is what closes on Saturday night."
