Significant
Theatre Practitioners (also see the Australian Drama section)
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Abe, Kobo
Albee, Edward
Anouilh, Jean
Arden, John
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Artaud, Antonin
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Antonin
Artaud: a website entirely dedicated to the French genius.
Poet, essayist, playwright, actor and director: Artaud was born exactly
a century ago. This site is meant to be a resource for all those studying
or admiring his life and work's complexity. A chronological biography,
a bibliography and a few links are available on this site.
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Antonin
Artaud Start Page
- some useful information and resources
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Celebrating
a century of Antonin Artaud all over the world
- a collection
of links
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Bohemian
Ink - a collection of resources about Artaud.
Ayckbourn, Alan
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By
Jeeves
- The musical at the Really Useful site
Bacon, Sir Francis
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Sir Francis
Bacon
- known as a playwright by his peers and classmates
while attending Grays Inn Law School. Just has a PR problem with critics
who never knew him and lived in different centuries.The Historical Facts
are on this site to back it up. Includes an interesting
segment on the possibility of Bacon being the author of Shakespeare.
Barba, Eugenio
Barnes, Peter
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The
Ruling Class
- a fairly detailed summary and critique of a production of
this play
Beckett, Samuel
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Endpage
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for fans and scholars of Samuel Beckett.
Behan, Brendan
Behn, Aphra (Mrs)
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The
Aphra Behn Society
- The Aphra Behn Society is dedicated
to encouraging and advancing research that focuses on issues of gender
and/or women's role in the arts of early modern culture, circa 1660-1800.
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Aphra
Behn
- a biography with some links
Berkoff, Stephen
Bernhardt, Sarah
Boal, Augusto
Bogosian, Eric
Brecht, Bertolt
Brook, Peter
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The
Empty Space
- brief mention of a film
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A
biography
- Encarta entry
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Does
Nothing Come from Nothing
- Ernest Jones Lecture given by Peter Brook
on 13th June 1994 at The Edward Lewis Theatre, UCL, London. Published in The
British Psycho-Analytical Society Bulletin, Vol. 34, No 1, London, 1998.
Reproduced here by the permission of the author.
Camus, Albert
Chekhov, Anton
Coward, Noel
Churchill, Caryl
Diderot, Denis
Dumas, Alexandre
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The Alexandre
Dumas père Web Site
- some people may be unaware
that Dumas was also playwright. This site contains information, original
language works and translations by Frank Morlock. Well worth a look.
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES OF THE UTAH SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL 
- The Utah Shakespearean Festival is the place to
turn when you need information about Shakespeare and other theatre people,
places, and events. Thus we have opened our archives from past issues of Insights,
Midsummer Magazine, educational study guides,
souvenir programs, and other publications containing the articles, pictures,
and other teaching aids below. They are a starting point for research and
study, for teaching, and for general information.
This resource page will grow as we put more
information together and provide more aids of various kinds.
All the resources below are fully copyrighted by
the Utah Shakespearean Festival. You may, however, download and print them
for educational purposes, as long as you credit the Utah Shakespearean
Festival on each article or photo.
Fassbinder, Ranier Werner
Feydeau, Georges
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The
Georges Feydeau Theater Comedies Homepage - You are welcome to copy
them and distribute them in writing. "Revenge"
or "Near the Window" (original title in French: "Par la Fenetre"),
and: Rest In Peace (Feu, La Mere de Madame)
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Cuckold
Schmuckold! - a synopsis of the play - this site also offers 3 act
plays by Georges Feydeau, free of charge.
Fo, Dario
Friel, Brian
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Brian
Friel - A
brief biography and bibliography linking to more substantial information.
Fugard, Athol
Genet, Jean
Gielgud, John
Godber, John
Gross,
Alexander
- renowned dramaturg and translator
Grotowski, Jerzy
Handke, Peter
Havel, Vaclav
Ibsen, Henrik
Ionesco, Eugene
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Søren's
Ionesco Home Page
- a fairly extensive site with great
bibliography listings and other information relating to Eugene Ionesco.
The webmaster of this site actually spent time with Ionesco.
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Eugene
Ionesco
- a short entry on the playwright.
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Eugene
Ionesco
- a useful collection of links and other resources.
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Ionesco's
Rhinoceros
- an entire website dedicated to the play
Jarry, Alfred
Johnson, Ben
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Ben
Johnson - A good collection of biographical material
and some links to ther related sites.
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Ben
Jonson
- a page of biographical material
Kafka, Franz
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FranzKafka.com
- a great site with tonnes of resources
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Constructing
Franz Kafka
- This site is a project started by
participants of the spring 1996 Franz-Kafka graduate seminar taught by
Dr. Clark Muenzer at the German department of the University of Pittsburgh.
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Kafka
at Levity
- a decent page with some good links
Mamet, David
Marceau, Marcel
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Christian's
Mime Page -
A great site all about the silent art of
mime, of course Marceau is mentioned
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MARCEL MARCEAU FOUNDATION- This
site will attempt to maintain a listing of Marceau’s upcoming activity
and general information. As it grows, we anticipate the site serving as
an interactive center in the field of mime to assist in linking the global
mime "family."
Marlowe, Christopher
Meyerhold, Vsevolod Yemilyevich
Miller, Arthur
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Why
I Wrote the Crucible
- an article by the man.
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Arthur
Miller
- a dedication at the Kennedy Centre.
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Arthur
Miller's The Crucible
-The best-known contemporary
account of the Salem witchcraft trials is this story (both a play and a
slightly-different screenplay) by Arthur Miller, although it is historically
inaccurate. I have less interest in Miller's fictional characters or their
motivations than I do in the real people and their motivations. If you
consider that Abigail and John never had an affair, and Tituba wasn't practicing
voodoo -- as is claimed in Miller's story -- then how do you explain what
happened in Salem in 1692?
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The
Crucible - A Teacher's Guide
- This unit, designed
to supplement the teaching of The Crucible by Arthur Miller, consists of
three activities
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Teaching
The Crucible
- A Guide to Curriculum Integration
Mishima, Yukio
Moliere, Jean-Baptiste
Nowra, Louis
Odets, Clifford
Olivier, Laurence
O'Neill, Eugene
Pinter, Harold
Pirandello, Luigi
Piscator, Erwin
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DAS
POLITISCHE THEATER
the most comprehensive and up to date resource on
Erwin Piscator - Though it could not yet be translated into English, the dates,
photos and voice recordings nevertheless make it worthwile for English
audiences.
Racine, Jean
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Sellars, Peter
- On Cultural
Activism in the New Century - Peter Sellars is one of the leading
theatre, opera and television directors in the world today. He is Professor
of World Arts and Culture at the University of Southern California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) and Artistic Director of the 2002 Adelaide Festival of Arts.
He brings these worlds together as he advocates changing the performance
arts and their role in contemporary life. Peter Sellars spoke on
cultural activism in the new century. This lecture was first broadcast
on ABC TV, August 19, 1999.
Schumann, Peter
Shaw, George Bernard
Shepard, Sam
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The
Sam Shepard Web Site
- This site will be updated regularly,
so please check back often. As things develop this will be a haven for
all things Shepard: current productions, reviews, texts, and other resources
of interest to both the casual playgoer and the scholar.
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Portrait
of the Artist: Sam Shepard and the Anxiety of Identity
- A masters thesis presented to the faculty of the University of Virginia
on May 1, 1996. by John Blackburn
Simon, Neil
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Neil
Simon
- a biography and some articles at the English Theater, Frankfurt
Sondheim, Stephen
Soyinka, Wole
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Wole
Soyinka Study Guide
- some good background on the author
and the work.
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Conversation
with Wole Soyinka
- Welcome to a Conversation with
History. Our guest is Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. In an extraordinarily
prolific and rich body of work including plays, novels, poems, and essays,
Professor Soyinka draws on both Yoruba and western culture to exquisitely
weave a subtle understanding of the tragedy and comedy of the human condition.
As a human rights activist, he has been a courageous voice for justice,
freedom, and the end of tyranny. He has risked his life again and again
to articulate the moral principles that provide the foundation for human
rights, both in his native Nigeria and around the world.
Stanislavski, Konstantin
Stoppard, Tom
Strindberg, August
Synge, John Millington
Turgenev, Ivan
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An
International Bibliography
- his bibliography has been
encoded in "Unicode" using the "Internet with an Accent Software."
In order to read this material, you can download Accent Multilingual Viewer
Wedekind, Frank
Weill, Kurt
Weiss, Peter
- Peter
Weiss - a brief biography and links at imagi-nation
- Alexander Gross
Dramaturgical Notes - For The Investigation by Peter Weiss
Prepared for the Royal
Shakespeare Company, 1965 The following are the
dramaturgical notes I presented to the Peter Brook, David Jones, and
Jeremy Brooks at the Royal Shakespeare in October of 1965 after I had
completed my translation of The
Investigation by Peter Weiss. Most of the recommendations I
made in these Notes were accepted, and I myself ended up making the cuts
I had recommended.
Wesker, Arnold
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, Tennessee
Williamson, David
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy (Witkacy)
Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville
GeneralArt
and Culture - Theatre Practitioners
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An amazing array of information about
a wide variety of Drama practitioners. This site is one of the best
and really needs some time to explore it. A
must see!!
Books
and Writers
- An impressive gallery of information about a
range of writers - includes a good many playwrights. Well worth
investigating.
Classic
Notes - Gradesavers
- ClassicNotes provides free literature
summaries and analysis. All of the ClassicNotes have been written and
compiled by our Harvard essayists. Find detailed summaries, character
information, and literature references.
The
ELAC Theatrepedia - Famous Theatre People
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A reasonably good collection of links
to resources about specific individuals who made a name for themselves
in connection with theatre. Some very famous, some quite obscure. Well
worth a look.
Elizabethan
E-texts
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A collection of links to e-texts (electronic
texts) available all over the net. From William Adlington to Thomas
Wyatt.
English
Actors at the turn of the Twentieth Century
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A pictorial collection of famous
actors in character costume from the era around 1900. The images were originally
published in a book entitled "Players of the Day", published in London
by George Newnes, circa 1902.
Introduction
to Drama and Theatre
- A comprehensive course description from Furman
University - includes a great range of links to significant practitioners.
Playwrights
on the Web
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Playwrights on the Web -
an international database of playwrights offering easy access to hundreds
of online playwrights & their websites.
The
Celebration of Women Writers
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The Celebration of Women Writers
recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women
have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters,
biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic
and scientific works.
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Mrs.
Fiske and Nellie Bly - American Stars of Theatre and Journalism
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The
Magdalena Project is an international network of women in contemporary
theatre. This web site provides a virtual meeting place for those involved
and a source of information about current activities. If you would like
to find out more about the Magdalena Project, visit!
Who's
Who of Stage Musicals
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A database of information about
stars of stage musicals from now and the near past.
William Shakespeare
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The Bard has a page of links
all to himself.
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