In Good Company
Peter Schumann, founder of this company in 1967, believed that "art should be as basic as bread is to life".
What is Bread & Puppet Co?
This existential play is Jean-Paul Sartre's most famous contribution to theatre.
What is No Exit?
This founder of Theatre of Cruelty wrote the famous book, Theatre and Its Double.
Who is Antonin Artaud?
This playwright wrote a 10-Play Cycle which includes Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Two Trains Running.
Who is August Wilson?
This writer, composer, and performer wrote In The Heights, Hamilton, and many songs for recent Disney films.
Who is Lin Manuel Miranda?
Ellen Van Volkenburg and Maurice Brown founded this Little Theatre Company in Illinois as an art theatre in opposition to commercial venues and styles.
What was The Chicago Little Theatre?
This absurdist playwright wrote The Balcony, The Maids, and Deathwatch.
Who is Jean Genet?
Artaud thought this should become an object for observation, thus making it corrupted and unrecognizable under the gaze of the audience.
What is the human body?
This writer wrote the absurdist plays, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and 15-Minute Hamlet, as well as the several films including Shakespeare in Love.
Who is Tom Stoppard?
This playwright is the current Chairperson of the Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama and has an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Moonlight.
Who is Tarell Alvin McCraney?
Judith Molina and Julian Beck were arrested in New Haven for indecent exposure in their work with this company.
What was The Living Theatre?
Best known for his absurdist "pauses", this playwright wrote The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and The Betrayal.
Who is Harold Pinter?
Although not in its purest sense, Artaud's ideology heavily influenced Brecht with his creation of this genre.
What is the Epic Theatre?
This playwright is the only woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice with her plays, Sweat and Ruined.
Who is Lynn Nottage?
This playwright merges mythology with modern lives in plays like Anon(ymous) and Polaroid Stories.
Who is Naomi Iizuka?
These theatre companies emerged outside of NYC in the 1960s as Professional or Semi-Professional companies that produced their own well rounded seasons.
What is a Regional Theatre?
Different from her realist play, topdog/underdog, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, dives into absurdism.
Who is Suzan-Lori Parks?
Artaud believe the audience should experience the performance with an usual perspective by placing them in this location within the space and the performers.
Where is in the middle?
This playwright wrote absurdist plays like, Rhinoceros, The Bald Soprano, and The Chairs.
Who is Eugene Ionesco?
Who is Danai Guirira?
This NYC theatre company still thrives today producing Shakespeare in the Park and has sent many shows to broadway like Hell's Kitchen, Fat Ham, and Hamilton.
What is The Public? (The Public Theatre/Joe Papp's The Public Theatre)
This playwright is most famous for his absurdist plays, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox.
Who is Edward Albee?
Highly influenced by Ubu Roi, Artaud named this theatre company after it's playwright.
What is Theatre Alfred Jarry?
This American playwright wrote A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
This playwright won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical, for his play Strange Loop.
Who is Michael R. Jackson?