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Anton Chekhov
Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
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Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian playwright and theatre director (1828–1906)
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T. S. Eliot
US-British poet (1888–1965)
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Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
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William Butler Yeats
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
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Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
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Federico García Lorca
Spanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898–1936)
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Luigi Pirandello
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian playwright and essayist (1862–1949)
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)
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Q7724
Swedish writer and painter (1849–1912)
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Karel Čapek
Czech writer (1890–1938)
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Eugene O'Neill
American playwright (1888–1953)
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Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet (1880–1918)
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W. H. Auden
British-American poet (1907–1973)
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Tristan Tzara
Romanian-French poet (1896–1963)
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Gertrude Stein
American author (1874–1946)
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Jean Anouilh
French playwright (1910–1987)
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Antonin Artaud
French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director (1896-1948)
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Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian dramatic, painter and writer (1886–1980)
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Alfred Jarry
French writer (1873–1907)
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theatre of the absurd
theatrical genre
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Frank Wedekind
German playwright (1864-1918)
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Daniil Kharms
Russian writer (1905–1942)
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Natalia Goncharova
Russian-French artist (1881–1962)
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Vsevolod Meyerhold
Russian theatre director (1874–1940)
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Ernst Barlach
German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer (1870–1938)
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Kurt Schwitters
German artist (1887–1948)
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Hugo Ball
German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists (1886–1927)
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Ernst Toller
German writer, politician and leader of the Munich Soviet Republic (1893-1939)
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Fyodor Sologub
Russian writer (1863–1927)
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Aleksandra Ekster
Ukrainian and French painter and designer (1882–1949)
epic theatre
theatrical genre
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Erwin Piscator
German theatre director (1893–1966)
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Georg Kaiser
German dramatist (1878-1945)
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Saadat Hasan Manto
Indo-Pakistani novelist, playwright and writer (1912-1955)
Evgeny Vakhtangov
Russian actor and theatre director (1883-1922)
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Mikhail Larionov
Russian artist (1881–1964)
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Tadeusz Kantor
Polish artist (1915–1990)
Edward Gordon Craig
Modernist stage designer and theatre director (1872-1966)
Cabaret Voltaire
Club and cultural space in Zurich, Switzerland; birthplace of the Dada art movement
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Marcel Janco
Romanian-born Israel painter and architect (1895-1984)
Christopher Fry
English poet and playwright (1907–2005)
Elmer Rice
American playwright (1892–1967)
Carl Sternheim
German writer and art collector (1878-1942)
Igor Ilyinsky
Soviet film and stage actor, director (1901–1987)
Varvara Stepanova
Russian artist (1894-1958)
Adolphe Appia
Swiss architect, stage director and scenographer (1862–1928)
Nathan Altman
Russian artist of Jewish origin (1889–1970)
Roger Vitrac
French writer (1899-1952)
Paul Green
American playwright (1894–1981)
Theatre of Cruelty
surrealist form of theatre
Emmy Hennings
German poet, editor (1885–1948)
Vadym Meller
painter (1884-1962)
Russian symbolism
activities and events of the Symbolist movement in 19th-century Russia
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John Howard Lawson
American dramatist (1894–1977)
experimental theatre
theatrical genre
Grigorios Xenopoulos
Greek writer (1867-1951)
Sergei Tretyakov
Russian writer-artist
Parsa Pirouzfar
Iranian actor