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123 Cards in this Set
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Anouilh, Jean
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French playwright discovered by Jouvet: "Thieves Carnival"
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Baker, George Pierce
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First Known dramatics Professor in the US at Radcliffe and Harvard
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Bauhaus
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Weimar workshop for the arts and crafts founded by Walter Gropius
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Camberidge Festival Theater
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Terence Grey's University theater dedicated to non-realism
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Chekhov, Micheal
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Director of MAT's Studio II then taught in the US: "To the Actor"
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Cocteau, Jean
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French director of the surrealist ballet and film: "Parade"
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Coward, Noel
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English modern comedies of manners: "private lives"
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De Ghelderode, Michel
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Belgian Playwright: "Chronicles of Hell"
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Eliot, T.S.
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English proponent of verse drama: Murder in the Cathedral
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Dullin, Charles
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Director at the L'Atlier known for excellence with classics
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Garcia-Lorca, Frederico
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Spanish poetic playwright and vitalist: "Blood Wedding"
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Giradoux, Jean
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French Playwright aided by Jouvet: "Madwoman of Chaillot"
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Hopkins, Arthur
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Broadway Director of the classics, O'Niell; Discovered Barrymores
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Jouvet, Louis
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Director at the Athenee; eclectic proponent of new plays
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La Barraca
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Garcia-Lorca's University-based theater company
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Lunacharsky, Anatole
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First Soviet Commissar of Education who aided theater.
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Mayakovsky, Vladimir
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Soviet playwright who got away with non-realism: The Bedbug
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O’Casey, Sean
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Irish political playwright: The Shadow of a Gunman
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Oxford Repertyory Theatre
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J. B. Fagan’s University theatre dedicated to classics
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Pirandello, Luigi
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Italian non-realist: Six Characters in Search of an Author
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Provincetown Players
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– Cape Cod theatre company that O’Niell’s plays
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Royal Victoria Theatre
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American director Ben Greet made this theatre a house of classics
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Schlemmer, Oskar
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The Bauhaus proponent of actors as “ambulant architecture”
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Theatre Guild
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New York little theatre; short-lived but important to US repertory
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Washington Square Players
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New York ensemble theatre gave Group Theatre its start
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Apollinaire, Guillaume
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“Drame Surrealiste”; The Breasts of Tiresias
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Artaud, Antonin
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Theatre of Cruelty; The Theatre & Its Double
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Brecht, Bertolt
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Epic Theatre; The Three-Penny Opera
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Del Valle-Inclan, Ramon
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Esperpento; Divine Worlds
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Jones, Robert Edmond
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New Stagecraft; The Dramatic Imagination
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Marinetti, Filippo
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Futurism; Bruitisme
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Tristan, Tzara
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Dadaism; “Upset the Ceremony”
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Anderson, Maxwell
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American playwright: What Price Glory?
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Bay, Howard
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The principal designer of the Federal Theatre Project
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Blake, Eubie
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Black American musical theatre creator: Chocolate Dandies
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Civic Repertory Theatre
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Eva La Gallen’s New York theatre for workers
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Federal Theatre Project
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Established by an Act of Congress to put theatre to work
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Flanagan Davis, Hallie
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Founder and Director of the Federal Theatre Project
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Gilpin, Charles
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First Balck American to star on Broadway (in The Emperor Jones)
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Group Theatre
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Clurman, Strassberg, & Crawford’s Stanislavski-based company
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Hellman, Lillian
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“First Lady” of American Renaissance playwrights: Little Foxes
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Howard, Sydney
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Broke the realistic ice in US with The Silver Cord
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Hughes, Langston
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Great Black American playwright: Mulatto
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Mercury Theatre
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Established by Houseman and Welles for excellent theatre in NY
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Rice, Elmer
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American expressionist: Street Scene, The Adding Machine 18
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Wilder, Thornton
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American epic theatre playwright: Our Town
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Barrault, Jean-Louis
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French director of “nearly impossible plays”
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Beckett, Samuel
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Irish absurdist: Waiting for Godot
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Betti, Ugo
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Italian Judge and Playwright: Corruption in the Palace of Justice
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Camus, Albert
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French existentialist playwright: Caligula
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Caspar Neher
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European Designer who established “Brechtian” staging
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Genet, Jean
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French Playwright who believed in “deviation”: The Balcony
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Grotowski, Jerzy
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Polish acting theorist and author of 'Towards a Poor Theatre'
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Havel, Vaclav
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Czech playwright-turned-statesman: The Memorandum
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Ionesco, Eugene
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Romanian absurdist: Rhinoceros
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Mrozek, Slawomir
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One of the most popular Slavic playwrights: Tango
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Rosewiscz, Tadeusz
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Strongest Polish playwright of the 50’s & 60’s: The Card Index
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Sartre, Jean-Paul
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Spanish existentialist playwright: The Flies
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Strehler, Giorgio
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“Brechtian” Italian director; founded of Piccolo Teatro
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Svoboda, Josef
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The “king” of modern stenographers from 1956-2002
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Swinarski, Konard
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Polish director who was the most in-demand in Europe, 1960-1980
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Vallejo, Antonio Buero
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Spanish playwright of international acclaim: "The Story of a Stairway"
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Witkiewicz, Stanislaw
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Polish surrealist: The Madman and the Nun
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Actor’s Studio
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Kazan’s & Crawford’s post-Group Theatre NY training center
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Actor’s Theatre of Louisville
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Jon Jory’s regional Theatre; the Humana Festival of New Plays
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American Repertory Theatre
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Robert Brustein’s resident theatre company at Harvard
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Arena Stage, The
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Zelda Fischandler’s Washington, DC experimental venue
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Bergman, Ingmar
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Swedish director of stage and film; known for symbolism
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Brooke, Peter
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Superb director of the 60’s/70’s RSC; The Empty Space
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Bury, John
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English designer for the RSC
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Circle in the Square
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Jose Quintero’s 1950’s off-Broadway venue
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English Stage Company
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The little London theater that broke the censorship deadlock
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Goodman Theatre, The
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Chicago’s Major regional theatre and school
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Hall, Peter
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Founding manger of the RSC’; later managed the National
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Kazan, Elia
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America’s greatest stage/film director through 1950’s
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La Mama Theatre Club
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Ellen Stewart’s off-off Broadway theatre venue
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Littlewood, Joan
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English Brechtian director: also clown techniques, etc.
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Living Theatre, The
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Alternative Theatre of Beck and Malina
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Mabou Mines
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Off-off Broadway experimental Theatre of Lee Breuer
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Mark Taper Forum, The
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L.A.’s regional theatre dedicated to new works
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Meilziner, Jo
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The most Prominent “New Stagecraft” designer 1945-60
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Molander, Olaf
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Swedish director of stage and film; eclectic
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National Theatre
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London’s Premiere theatre venue for the classics
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New Stages
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Joseph Heilweil’s early experimental off-Broadway venue
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Royal Shakespeare Company
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England’s expansion of the Stratford Festival Theatre
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St. Denis, Michel
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Global teacher of acting movement and style
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Steppenwolf Theatre
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One of the most successful theatre of the Chicago Renaissance
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Theatre Workshop, The
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Joan Littlewood’s post-war workers’ theater
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Yale Repertory Theatre
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Robert Brustein’s first resident theatre company
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Albee, Edward
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Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?
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Anderson, Robert
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Tea and Sympathy; You know I can’t hear you when the water is running
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Behan, Brendan
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The Quare Fellow; Theatre Workshop
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Bolt, Robert
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A Man of All Seasons; Dr. Zhivago; Laurence of Arabia; English Dramatist
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Bond, Edward
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Top Girls; English Socialist; Objection to Sex & Violence
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Delaney, Shelagh
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Taste of Honey; Theatre Workshop
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Durrenmatt, Friederich
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The Visit; Dark Comedy; Absurdist playwright
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Fassbinder, Rainer W.
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The Third Generation; Work in film industry
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Friel, Brian
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Dance at Lughuasa; War Several
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Fugard, Athol
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Master Harold & the Boys; Bloodknot; From South Africa
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Grass, Gunter
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The Wicked Looks; Absurdist Playwright
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Hare, David
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My Zire Bed; English Playwright
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Inge, William
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Picnic; Compared to Tennessee Williams
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Kroetz, Franz X
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Rutting Time; Documentary Drama
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McCullers, Carson
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A Member of the Wedding; Post War Dramatist
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Miller, Arthur
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Death Of the Salesman; Socialist/ Realism
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Muller, Heiner
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Hamlet Machine; Socialist/ Absurdist; Brechtian Theatre
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Noren, Lars
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Night is the mother of Day; Best since Strindberg
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Osborne, John
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Look Back Anger, English Playwright
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Pinter, Harold
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Betrayal; “Pause” Realism
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Poliakoff, Stephen
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Perfect Strangers; Wrote for TV
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Simon, Neil
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers; Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Dinner Party;
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Soyinka, Wole
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Nigerian Playwright?
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Walcott, Derek
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Omerus, Cuban Playwright;
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Weiss, Peter
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Discourse; Theatre of Fact
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Williams, Tennessee
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Street Car Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie; Strangest Kind of Romance; Dead by choking on a bottle cap.
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Bergman, Ingmar
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Symbolism based, Swedish
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Chaikin, Peter
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“The Empty Space”, worked For RSC
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Guthrie, Tyrone
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Guthrie Theatre
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Hall, Peter
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Founded the English Stage Company
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Kazan, Elia
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America’s most successful director
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Littlewood, Joan
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Founded the Theatre workshop, clown work
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Meilziner, Jo
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formed new idea’s on the area of stage craft
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Quintero, Jose
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Circle in the Square
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