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The close interaction and historical interdependence of modernist drama, theatre and performance renders their treatment together necessary. The rise of the director. The notion of "performance" as an independent aesthetic activity is formed. Training and studios (Theatre anthropology).

Dada, Surrealism, and the Theatre of the absurd
Dada performance began in Zurich in 1916 and came to an end in Paris in 1924. Its techniques and those of the Italian Futurists bear a striking resemblance to one another.


 * The Gas Heart (1921) and Handkerchief of Clouds (1924).


 * Antonin Artaud
 * Roger Vitrac
 * Federico García Lorca

To be incorporated

 * August Strindberg - Anton Chekhov - Federico García Lorca - Samuel Beckett


 * Frank Wedekind
 * Alfred Jarry
 * Arthur Schnitzler
 * John Galsworthy
 * Gerhart Hauptmann
 * Maurice Maeterlinck, William Butler Yeats
 * Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, Joe Orton
 * Gertrude Stein
 * Eugene O'Neill
 * Luigi Pirandello
 * George Bernard Shaw
 * Ernst Toller
 * Vladimir Mayakovsky
 * Jean-Paul Sartre
 * Albert Camus
 * Arthur Miller
 * Tennessee Williams
 * Jean Genet
 * Harold Pinter
 * Friedrich Dürrenmatt
 * Dario Fo
 * Heiner Müller
 * Caryl Churchill