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  2. Theatre of the absurd - Wikipedia

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    Waiting for Godot, a herald for the Theatre of the Absurd. Festival d'Avignon, dir. Otomar Krejča, 1978.. The theatre of the absurd (French: théâtre de l'absurde [teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.

  3. Sarah Ruhl - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, poet, professor, and essayist. Among her most popular plays are Eurydice (2003), The Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009).

  4. Thesmophoriazusae - Wikipedia

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    Today the women at the festival Are going to kill me for insulting them! [5]This bold statement by Euripides is the absurd premise upon which the whole play depends. The women are incensed by his plays' portrayal of the female sex as mad, murderous, and sexually depraved, and they are using the festival of the Thesmophoria (an annual fertility celebration dedicated to Demeter) as an ...

  5. List of playwrights - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable playwrights. See also Literature; Drama; List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth ; Lists of authors . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

  6. Category:Women dramatists and playwrights - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Dramatists and playwrights. It includes dramatists and playwrights that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.

  7. María Irene Fornés - Wikipedia

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    The play considered her first as a playwright was There! You Died , first produced by San Francisco's Actor's Workshop in 1963. An absurdist two-character play, it was later renamed Tango Palace and produced in 1964 at New York City's Actors Studio . [ 3 ]

  8. Category : American women dramatists and playwrights

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American dramatists and playwrights. It includes dramatists and playwrights that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.

  9. Chamber Music (play) - Wikipedia

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    Chamber Music is a 1962 one-act play by absurdist playwright Arthur Kopit. [1] The story is set in 1938 and concerns eight famous women from different historical periods who all are interned in the same insane asylum .