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Jean Genet's 1957 masterpiece The Balcony dramatises simulacra as mimetic enactments of fantasy in a brothel, aligned with acting, roleplaying, and, by means of (premature) burial ritual, power, Death and eternity in the form of an undead ideological image.

Priorities for Theatre articles in need of attention


 * Oscar Wilde	199,668
 * Waiting for Godot	98,308
 * Actor 	89,058
 * Jean-Paul Sartre	85,334
 * Albert Camus	72,896
 * Drama	69,835
 * George Bernard Shaw 	68,666
 * Arthur Miller	67,160
 * Anton Chekhov	66,178
 * William Butler Yeats	63,196
 * Bertolt Brecht	61,126
 * Samuel Beckett	60,984
 * Tragedy	59,817
 * Tennessee Williams	59,668
 * Oedipus the King	48,174
 * Federico García Lorca	45,588
 * Commedia dell'arte	44,849
 * A Doll's House	42,431
 * Gertrude Stein	38,631
 * Method acting	38,612
 * Tragic hero	38,030
 * Theatre of ancient Greece	36,740
 * Henrik Ibsen	36,286
 * Harold Pinter	33,940
 * Eugene O'Neill	32,520


 * Nikolai Gogol	29,776
 * Peer Gynt	27,857
 * Theatre of the Absurd	27,161
 * Theatre	25,813
 * Émile Zola	24,998
 * Constantin Stanislavski	24,699
 * Hedda Gabler	22,699
 * Naturalism	21,247
 * The Seagull	19,016
 * Lee Strasberg	18,416
 * Antonin Artaud	17,127
 * The Threepenny Opera	17,029
 * Dramatic structure	16,806
 * Mimesis	16,804
 * The Cherry Orchard	16,783
 * English Renaissance theatre	16,385
 * Three Sisters	13,783
 * August Strindberg	13,400
 * History of theatre	12,528
 * Epic theatre	11,642
 * Play	11,492
 * Jean Genet	11,283
 * Vladimir Mayakovsky	10,214
 * Endgame	9,755
 * Mother Courage and Her Children	9,526


 * Caryl Churchill	9,310
 * Audience	9,174
 * Luigi Pirandello	9,070
 * Noël_Coward 	9,001
 * Peter Brook	8,944
 * Dario Fo	8,022
 * Tony Kushner	7,878
 * Augusto Boal	7,846
 * Morality play	7,796
 * Uncle Vanya	7,486
 * Miss Julie	7,481
 * Jerzy Grotowski	7,175
 * Joe Orton	6,985
 * Theatre of Cruelty	6,420
 * Mystery play	6,394
 * Restoration comedy	6,378
 * Medieval theatre	6,007
 * Realism	5,938
 * An Enemy of the People	5,675
 * Theatre of ancient Rome	5,650
 * John Galsworthy	5,631
 * The Caucasian Chalk Circle	5,531
 * Ghosts	4,952
 * Ancient Greek comedy	4,886
 * Arthur Schnitzler	4,670


 * Alfred Jarry	4,619
 * Life of Galileo	4,566
 * Maurice Maeterlinck	4,532
 * Friedrich Dürrenmatt	4,498
 * Frank Wedekind	4,021
 * Vsevolod Meyerhold	3,907
 * The Wild Duck	3,581
 * Comedy	2,932
 * Satyr play	2,836
 * Stanislavski's system	2,719
 * Experimental theatre	2,545
 * Heiner Müller	2,225
 * Gerhart Hauptmann	2,181
 * Anne Bogart	2,063
 * Political theatre 	2,004
 * Erwin Piscator	1,879
 * Ernst Toller	1,340
 * Alexandr Ostrovsky	1,218
 * Dramatic theory	942
 * Brand	877
 * Eugenio Barba	766
 * Political drama	740
 * Nineteenth-century theatre	681
 * Twentieth-century theatre	586
 * Theatre language	359

Henrik Ibsen's plays
Wikipedia hits in November 2008
 * Catiline_(play) - 529
 * The_Burial_Mound - 319
 * St._John's_Eve_(play) - 215
 * Lady_Inger_of_Oestraat - 291
 * The_Feast_at_Solhaug - 359
 * Olaf_Liljekrans - 196
 * The_Vikings_at_Helgeland - 529
 * Love's_Comedy - 358
 * The_Pretenders_(play) - 389
 * Brand_(play) - 1,003
 * Peer_Gynt - 18,567
 * The_League_of_Youth - 287
 * Emperor_and_Galilean - 639
 * The_Pillars_of_Society - 660
 * A_Doll's_House - 30,071
 * Ghosts_(play) - 3,461
 * An_Enemy_of_the_People - 5,505
 * The_Wild_Duck - 2,370
 * Rosmersholm - 702
 * The_Lady_from_the_Sea - 857
 * Hedda_Gabler - 13,974
 * The_Master_Builder - 2,226
 * Little_Eyolf - 414
 * John_Gabriel_Borkman - 673
 * When_We_Dead_Awaken - 1,030