Resources:
These sites might be a good
place to find some of the information you
might need:
Theatre of
the Absurd
Overview of
movement:
http://www.theatrehistory.com/misc/theatre_of_the_absurd.html
Play/Playwright
Options:
The
Bald Soprano by
Eugene Ionesco
Play
information:
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-baldsoprano/
The Dumb Waiter by
Harold Pinter
Play information:
http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/dumbwaiter/
The Homecoming by
Harold Pinter
Play
& Playwright information:
http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=580
Expressionism:
Overview of
movement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionist_theater
Overview
of
movement:
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-expressionism/crit.html
Play/Playwright Options:
The Adding Machine by
Elmer Rice
Spring Awakening by
Frank Wedekind
The Hairy Ape by
Eugene O’Neill
The Emperor Jones by
Eugene O’Neill
The Ghost Sonata by
August Strindberg
Surrealism:
Overview
of movement
along with Antonin Artoud: http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/artaud001.html
Artonin
Artaud website: http://www.antoninartaud.org/home.html
Play/Playwright
Options:
Ubu Roi by Alfred
Jarry
The Cenci by Artonin
Artoud (Theatre of Cruelty which came out of this movement)
Top Girls by Caryl
Churchhill
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