Eugène Ionesco – The absurd made human
Eugène Ionesco found the absurdity of life not in grand philosophical statements but in the petty routines of everyday people. A man and woman sit in armchairs, trading banal phrases about the weather and…
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Jean Genet – Ritual & transgression
Jean Genet strolls into the theatre carrying a lifetime of defiance. Here is a man who spent his youth as a thief, vagrant, and outcast, a gay man and ex-convict who inverted society’s judgments…
Samuel Beckett – Absurdism
A pair of tramps on a country road, waiting by a bare tree for a man who never comes – this is Samuel Beckett’s contribution to theatre, and it changed the course of drama.…
Tennessee Williams – Desire & violence
Tennessee Williams brings us into the steamy, gothic heart of American life, especially life in the old South, and he does it with a poet’s touch and a truth-teller’s grit. His plays are lush…
Caryl Churchill – Form experimentation
The audience is dazzled—this is funny, moving, and unlike any play structure they’ve seen. At intermission, they buzz: “All women on stage, and not a dull moment!” “Who wrote this?” The answer: Caryl Churchill,…
Ariane Mnouchkine – Collective creation
Paris, 1973. The dim, cavernous interior of La Cartoucherie—a former munitions factory on the outskirts of the city—has been transformed into a bustling revolutionary fairground. It is here that 1789, a theatrical reenactment of…