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| 1900 | 1907 Laurence Olivier born | |||
| 1910 | ||||
| 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 | |||
| 1916 | ||||
| 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 | |||
| 1925 | Margaret Roberts (Thatcher) born | |||
| 1926 | ||||
| 1927 | ||||
![]() The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht |
1928 | |||
| 1929 | The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner, novel | |||
| Private Lives Noël Coward | 1930 | Harold Pinter born | ||
| 1931 | ||||
| 1932 | ||||
| 1933 | ||||
| 1934 | ||||
| Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot | 1935 | |||
| 1936 | Luigi Pirandello dies | |||
| 1937 | ||||
| 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 |
![]() 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 1958 | ||||
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Rhinoceros
Eugene Ionesco |
1959 | |||
| The Caretaker | 1960 |
![]() John F. Kennedy elected President USA Albert Camus dies, Algeria |
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| 1961 | LaMama
experimental theatre founded by Ellen Stewart, USA |
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| 1962 | ||||
| 1963 | John F. Kennedy assassinated USA | |||
| 1964 | ||||
| Loot Joe Orton | 1965 | First part
of novel sequence Sea of Fertility Yukio Mishima |
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Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard |
1966 | |||
| 1967 | ||||
| 1968 | ||||
| 1969 | ||||
| 1970 | ||||
| 1971 | ||||
| 1972 | ||||
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The Island
Athol Fugard Equus Peter Shaffer |
1973 | |||
| 1974 | ||||
| 1975 | Pol Pot regime and the killing Fields in Cambodia | |||
| 1976 | ||||
| 1977 | Steve Biko dies | |||
| 1978 | ||||
| 1979 | Margaret
Thatcher elected prime minister, Great Britain |
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| 1980 | ||||
| 1981 | Ronald Reagan elected President, USA | |||
![]() Top Girls Caryl Churchill |
1982 | Falklands War | ||
| 1983 |
![]() Tennessee Williams dies |
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| 1984 | ||||
| 1985 | ||||
| 1986 | ||||
| 1987 | ||||
| 1988 | The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie, novel | |||
| 1989 |
![]() Laurence Olivier dies |
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| 1990 |
![]() Nelson Mandela released from prison |
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| 1991 | ||||
| 1992 | ||||
| 1993 | ||||
| 1994 | Eugene Ionesco dies | |||
![]() Blasted by Sarah Kane |
1995 | |||
| 1996 | ||||
| 1997 | Princess Diana dies | |||
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| 2000 | ||||
| 2001 | 911 attack on America | |||
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| 2005 | Arthur Miller dies | |||
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