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| 1900 | 1907 Laurence Olivier born | |||
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| 1911 |
Ronald
Reagan born Tennessee Williams born |
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| 1912 | Eugene Ionesco born, Romania | |||
| 1913 | Albert Camus born, Algeria | |||
 Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw |
1914 | First World War | ||
| 1915 | Metamorphosis Franz Kafka, short story | |||
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| 1917 | John F. Kennedy born USA | |||
| 1918 | First World War ends | |||
| 1919 | In The Penal Colony Franz Kafka, short story | |||
| 1920 | ||||
 Six Characters in Search of an Author| Luigi Pirandello |
1921 | Jacques Lecoq born | ||
| 1922 |
 Ulysses by James Joyce, novel |
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| 1923 | ||||
| Juno and the Paycock Sean O“Casey | 1924 |
 Franz Kafka dies |
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| 1925 |
Margaret
Roberts (Thatcher) born The Trial Franz Kafka, novel |
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| 1927 | ||||
 The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht |
1928 | |||
| 1929 | The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner, novel | |||
| Private Lives Noėl Coward | 1930 | Harold Pinter born | ||
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| 1932 | ||||
| 1933 |
The Kray
twins born, East End, London Luca Ronconi born, Italy |
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| 1934 | ||||
| Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot | 1935 | |||
| 1936 | Luigi Pirandello dies | |||
| 1937 | Berkoff born, 3 August, East End, London | |||
| Out Town Thornton Wilder | 1938 | Brighton Rock Graham Greene, novel | ||
 A Long Day's Journey into the Night Eugene O'Neill |
1939 | Second World War starts | ||
| 1940 | Vsevolod Meyerhold dies, Russia | |||
| 1941 | ||||
| 1942 | Berkoff
evacuated to Luton to avoid bombing The Stranger by Albert Camus, novel |
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| 1943 | ||||
| 1944 | ||||
| 1945 | Second World War in Europe over | |||
| 1946 |
Second
World War in Asia over |
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Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams |
1947 | |||
| 1948 |
 Antonin Artaud dies |
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| Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller | 1949 | Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell, novel | ||
| 1950 | ||||
| 1951 | ||||
| 1952 | Berkoff steals a bicycle and is sent to a remand home for two weeks | |||
| Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett | 1953 | Eugene O'Neill dies | ||
 Deathwatch Jean Genet |
1954 | |||
| 1955 | Richard III film by Laurence Olivier | |||
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Long Day's Journey into the Night Eugene O'Neill Look Back in Anger John Osborne |
1956 | Bertolt Brecht dies Germany | ||
| 1957 | Studies at the City Literary Institute | |||
| 1958 | The
Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, film (extra) I Was Monty's Double, film (extra) Studies at the Webber Douglas Academy |
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Rhinoceros
Eugene Ionesco Berkoff plays the longshoreman in A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller Berkoff acts in Team and Sympathy Berkoff acts in Hot Summer Night Berkoff acts in The Unexpected Guest |
1959 | Graduates from Webber
Douglas Academy The Captain's Table, film (extra) The Devil's Disciple, film (extra) The Third Man, television The Flesh and the Fiends, film (extra) Crime and Punishment, television |
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Caretaker Harold Pinter Berkoff acts in The Seventh Veil Berkoff acts in Gilt and Gingerbread Berkoff acts in Murder at Midnight Berkoff acts in The French Mistress Berkoff acts in The Stepmother Berkoff acts in Not in the Book Berkoff acts in How Say You? Berkoff acts in Murder on Arrival |
1960 |
 John F. Kennedy elected President USA Albert Camus dies, Algeria |
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 Berkoff plays Raymundo in The Kitchen by Arnold Wesker at the Royal Court Theatre. Directed by John Dexter. Other actors were Glenda Jackson and Edward Fox
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1961 |
The
Avengers, television LaMama experimental theatre founded by Ellen Stewart, USA |
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 Berkoff plays Henry VIII in A Man for all Seasons, Robert Bolt (photo from Free Association) Berkoff acts in Frederick Knott's Write me a Murder Berkoff plays Taffy Evans in Terence Rattigan's Ross |
1962 |
The Saint,
television Corrigan Blake, television |
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Berkoff
acts in Semi-Detached Berkoff acts in As You Like It, Shakespeare |
1963 | John F.
Kennedy assassinated USA Hamlet at Elsinore, William Shakespeare, television
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 Berkoff acts in Sir Thomas More playing Sherwin as well as the Second Player. A young Ian McKellen is in the title role. |
1964 | Murder in the Cathedral, television | ||
Loot Joe
Orton Berkoff plays Bamforth in The Long and the Short and the Tall Willis Hall (photo from Free Association)  Berkoff plays Jerry in Zoo Story Edward Albee (photo from Theatre World Mar 1965) Berkoff plays Colin in George Dandin Moliere (a double bill with Zoo Story) Berkoff plays Larry Kogen in Seidman and Son Elick Moll |
1965 | First part
of novel sequence Sea of Fertility Yukio Mishima Berkoff writes Ritual in Blood (then called Hep, Hep, Hep) The Pistol, television The Wednesday Play, television An Enemy of the State, television |
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Berkoff
writes Lunch Berkoff acts in Shaw's Misalliance Berkoff acts in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Berkoff acts in Strindberg's Creditors Berkoff acts in Doris Lessing's Play with a Tiger Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard |
1966 | |||
| Berkoff writes In the Penal Colony | 1967 | Prehistoric
Women, film Dixon of Dock Green, television |
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| In The Penal Colony staged | 1968 | Berkoff
forms London Theatre Group The Champions, television |
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| Metamorphosis | 1969 |
 Kray twins jailed for life Vendetta for the Saint, film |
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The Trial Macbeth |
1970 | UFO, television | ||
| 1971 | A
Clockwork Orange, film Nicholas and Alexandra, film |
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| Knock at the Manor Gate | 1972 | Berkoff writes Agamemnon | ||
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The Island
Athol Fugard Equus Peter Shaffer Miss Julie versus Expressionism Agamemnon Zoo Story |
1973 | Three Theatre Manifestos | ||
| The Fall of the House of Usher | 1974 | |||
| East | 1975 | Pol Pot
regime and the killing Fields in Cambodia Berkoff writes East  Barry Lyndon, film Reporter, film |
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| 1976 | Berkoff marries Shelley Lee, his second wife | |||
| 1977 | Steve Biko dies The Professionals, television Joseph Andrews, film |
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| Berkoff writes West | 1978 | |||
| Berkoff writes Greek | 1979 | Margaret
Thatcher elected prime minister, Great Britain Gross Intrusion and other stories, book |
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Greek
staged Hamlet |
1980 |
 Death of Polly Berkoff, mother (photo from Free Association) McVicar, film |
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| Decadence | 1981 | Ronald
Reagan elected President, USA Beloved Enemy, television Berkoff writes Decadence Outland, film |
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 Top Girls Caryl Churchill |
1982 | Falklands
War Belgrano sunk Coming out of the Ice, television |
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West Lunch |
1983 |
 Tennessee Williams dies Octopussy, film |
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| Actor | 1984 | Beverly Hills Cop, film | ||
| Harry“s Christmas | 1985 | Rambo,
film Underworld, film Revolution, film Berkoff moves to Limehouse, London |
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Kvetch Sink the Belgrano! |
1986 | Absolute Beginners, film Sins, mini-series Under the Cherry Moon, film |
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| 1987 | Metamorphosis, TV | |||
| Salome | 1988 | The
Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, novel America, essays and poetry |
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| 1989 |
 Laurence Olivier dies Prisoner in Rio, film A Prisoner in Rio, book War and Remembrance, mini-series I am Hamlet, book |
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| Acapulco | 1990 |
 Nelson Mandela released from prison The Krays, film |
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| Brighton Beach Scumbags | 1991 | A Season of Giants, film | ||
| 1992 | Intruders,
film Coriolanus in Deutschland, book The Theatre of Steven Berkoff, book |
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| Dog | 1993 | Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, television | ||
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Storm und
Drang Dahling you were Marvellous |
1994 | Eugene
Ionesco dies Space Precinct, television Decadence, film (actor and director) Overview, book |
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 Blasted by Sarah Kane |
1995 | Ronnie
Kray dies Fair Game, film Meditations on Metamorphosis, book |
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| 1996 | Flynn,
film Free Association, book |
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| Massage | 1997 | Princess
Diana dies Another 9 1/2 Weeks, film Brasseye, television |
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| Shakespeare's Villains | 1998 | Legionnaire,
film Graft, Tales of an Actor, book La Femme Nikita, television War and Remembrance, television |
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| 1999 |
 Jacques Lecoq dies Beginner's Luck, film |
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| The Messiah | 2000 | Reggie
Kray dies In the Beginning, mini-series Rancid Aluminium, film Changing Stages, documentary Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), television Shopping in the Santa Monica Mall, book |
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The Bow of
Ulysses Ritual in Blood The Secret Love Life of Ophelia |
2001 | 911 attack on
America Attila mini-series Stanley Kubrick A Life in Pictures (documentary) Reggie Kray- The Final Word, television Jonathan Creek, television Beginner's Luck, film Requiem for Ground Zero (poem) Hans Christian Andersen, television |
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Requiem for Ground
Zero (one-man performance) |
2002 | NCS Crime
Doubles, television The Wickedest Man in the World, television Riders, film Nine Dead Gay Guys, film Bokshu, the Myth, film |
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Performs a reading of "Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess- The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde" with Corin Redgrave |
2003 | Children of Dune, television | ||
| Sit and Shiver | 2004 | Seven Wonders of the
Industrial World, television Charlie, film Head in the Clouds, film Brides, film |
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| Richard II | 2005 | Arthur Miller dies Naked in London, film The Headsman, film It's a Boy, film voiceover Forest of the Gods, film |
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| Plays Mathias in Leopold Lewis' play The Bells | 2006 | PU-239, film By the Pricking of my Thumbs, television Hotel Babylon, television New Tricks, television The Flying Scotsman, film The Half Life of Timofey Berezin, film The Tenth Man, film |
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| 2007 | My Life in Food, book Say it in Russian, film |
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Oedipus On the Waterfront |
2008 |
The
Dot Man, film Richard II in New York, book |
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| 2009 | 44 Inch Chest, film You Remind me of Maryln Monroe, book |
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| Biblical Stories | 2010 | Perfect Life The Big I Am, film Diary of a Juvenile Delinquent, book Drop Dead Gorgeous, film Just for the Record, film Dead Cert, film The Tourist, film Corrie: The Road to Coronation Street, television |
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| Six Actors in Search of a Director | 2011 | Big Fat Gypsy Gangster, film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
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