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produced Ibsen's Ghosts, finest playwright since Shakespeare
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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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| sarah bernhardt, Coquelin, Eleanora Rose, Sir Henry Irving, Ellen Terry |
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| Edwin booth, Josef Jefferson, Richard Mansfield, Maude Adams, Mrs. John Drew |
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| preformed in black fa ce, Black songs and jokes, popular |
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| popular variety shows, important to American entertainment |
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developed epic theatre, encouraged audience to think critically and promote social reform, stressed theatrics
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| Tiger at the Gates , Ondine, The Madwomen of Challot |
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| Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba |
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| Six Characters in Search of An Author |
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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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| effects of Irish Rebellion, The Shadow of A Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars |
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| The Cocktail Party and the Murder in the Cathedral |
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| The Ladies not for Burning, Venus Observed |
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| Blithe Spirit, Private Lives |
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| look Back In Anger, became a rallying cry for plawrights known as "angry young men" |
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| Black Comedy, 5 Finger Projects, Equus, Amadeus |
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| Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia |
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| argues that all life is meaningless, no soocial or theatrical rules |
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| Endgame, Happy Days, Waiting for Godot, a |
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| Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Bald Soprano, a |
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| Accidental Death of an Anarchist, We Wont Pay! We Wont Pay!, a |
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| playwrighting course helped US develope own unique theatre |
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| The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, Strange Interlude, A Long Journey Into Night, Mourning Becomes Electra |
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| you can't take it with you, The man who came to dinner |
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| The Little Foxes, Children's Hour |
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| Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
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| Winterset, Elizabeth The Queen |
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| Waiting For Lefty, Goldan Boy |
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| Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, external patterns of human exisitance |
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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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| Death Of a Salesman, All My Sons, Crucible ( salem witch trails to criticize Joe Mcarthy) |
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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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| Buried Child, Fool for Love |
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| Tally's Folly, The 5th of July, 20th |
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| Sister Mary Ignausius Explains It All for You 20th |
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| An American Daughter, 20th |
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| cycle of plays set in different decades, Fences, The Piano Lesson, AA |
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| hub of proffesional theatre, comidies or musicals with mass appeal |
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| NY theatres seating < 299, welcomes new names, some eventually become Broadway |
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| Guthrie Theatre, San Fran, etc. encourage new talents and Playwrights including those representing minorities |
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| David Henry Hwang, Frank Chin, James Yoshimura |
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| JOse Rivera, Migdalia Cruz, Maria Irene Fornes |
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| nonprofessional Community Theatre |
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| attempt to involve townspeople and imagination |
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