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Theatre History Playwrights
Prominent playrights from 1800 to present
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10th Grade
06/02/2010

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Henry Ibsen
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"father of realism" a dolls house, hedda gabler, an enemy of the prople
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Anton Chekov
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the cherry orchard
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Maxim Gory
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Lower Depths
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Konstantin Stanislavski
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primary director of Checkov, acting experimentation
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George Bernard Shaw
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produced Ibsen's Ghosts, finest playwright since Shakespeare
- Androcles and the lion
- Pygmalium
-Major Barbara
- Candida
- Arms and Man
- Doctor's Dilemma
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Oscar Wilde
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Importance of Being Earnest
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Sir Willam Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan
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popular operettas - the mikado
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Edmond Rostand
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Nikolai Gogol
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Inspector General
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Actors
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sarah bernhardt, Coquelin, Eleanora Rose, Sir Henry Irving, Ellen Terry
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American Actors
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Edwin booth, Josef Jefferson, Richard Mansfield, Maude Adams, Mrs. John Drew
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minstrel shows
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preformed in black fa ce, Black songs and jokes, popular
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vaudville
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popular variety shows, important to American entertainment
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Bertolt Brecht
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developed epic theatre, encouraged audience to think critically and promote social reform, stressed theatrics
- mother courage - Caucasian chalk circle
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Jean Giraudoux
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Tiger at the Gates , Ondine, The Madwomen of Challot
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Jean Anouilh
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Antigone, The Lark
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Federico Garcia Lorca
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Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba
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Luigi Pirandello
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Six Characters in Search of An Author
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John M. Synge
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Irish people in conflict for freedom from oppression, The Playboy of the Western World, In the Shadow of the Glen
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Sean O'Casey
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effects of Irish Rebellion, The Shadow of A Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars
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T.S. Elliot
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The Cocktail Party and the Murder in the Cathedral
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Christopher Fry
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The Ladies not for Burning, Venus Observed
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J.B. Priestley
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An Inspector Calls
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James M. Barrie
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peter Pan
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Noel Coward
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Blithe Spirit, Private Lives
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John Osborne
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look Back In Anger, became a rallying cry for plawrights known as "angry young men"
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Peter Shaffer
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Black Comedy, 5 Finger Projects, Equus, Amadeus
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Tom Stoppard
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Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia
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Absurdisim
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argues that all life is meaningless, no soocial or theatrical rules
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Samuel Beckett
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Endgame, Happy Days, Waiting for Godot, a
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Eugene ionesco
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Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Bald Soprano, a
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Jean Genet
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The Balcony, a
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Harold Pinter
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Dumb Waiter , a
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Dario Fo and Franca Rame
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Accidental Death of an Anarchist, We Wont Pay! We Wont Pay!, a
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Edward Albee
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The Sandbox
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Professor George Peirce
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playwrighting course helped US develope own unique theatre
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Eugene O' Neill
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The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, Strange Interlude, A Long Journey Into Night, Mourning Becomes Electra
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George S. Kaufman
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you can't take it with you, The man who came to dinner
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Lillian Hellman
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The Little Foxes, Children's Hour
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Robert Sherwood
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Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois
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Maxwell Anderson
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Winterset, Elizabeth The Queen
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Clifford Odets
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Waiting For Lefty, Goldan Boy
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Thornton Wilder
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Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, external patterns of human exisitance
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Tenessee Williams
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The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, southern characters and universal truths
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Arthur Miller
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Death Of a Salesman, All My Sons, Crucible ( salem witch trails to criticize Joe Mcarthy)
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Neil Simon
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combines wisecracks and barbed wit with family realism and serious themes. The Odd Couple, Lost In yonkers, Biloxi Blues
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Sam Shepard
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Buried Child, Fool for Love
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David Mamet
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American Buffalo, Glengary Glenn Ross
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Marsha Norman
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Night Mother
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Beth Henley
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Crimes of the Heart
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Lanford Wilson
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Tally's Folly, The 5th of July, 20th
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Tony Kushner
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Angels in America 20th
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Christopher Durang
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Sister Mary Ignausius Explains It All for You 20th
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Arthur Kopit
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Wings, Y2K , 20th
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A.R. Gurney, Jr
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The Dining Room 20th
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Wendy Wasserstien
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An American Daughter, 20th
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Rebbecca Gilman
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Spinning into Butter, 20th
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Kia Corthan
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Breath, Boom, 20th
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Julie Jenson
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2 headed, 20th
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Lorraine Hansberry
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A Raisain in the Sun, AA
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August Wilson
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cycle of plays set in different decades, Fences, The Piano Lesson, AA
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Charles Fuller
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A Soilder's Play, AA
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Suzan-Lori Parks
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Topdog/Underdog, AA
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Broadway
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hub of proffesional theatre, comidies or musicals with mass appeal
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off broadway
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NY theatres seating < 299, welcomes new names, some eventually become Broadway
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Regional Theatres
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Guthrie Theatre, San Fran, etc. encourage new talents and Playwrights including those representing minorities
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chinese, RT
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David Henry Hwang, Frank Chin, James Yoshimura
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hispanic issues, RT
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JOse Rivera, Migdalia Cruz, Maria Irene Fornes
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disability issues, RT
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JOhn Belluso
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nonprofessional Community Theatre
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attempt to involve townspeople and imagination
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