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Al- Warsha Theatre Company
Egyptian troupe, founded in 1987 by Hassan El-Geretly (its artistic director). Al-Warsha (Arabic for ‘workshop’) was the first and most financially secure of the non-commercial, independent companies ...
André Breton
(1896–1966)French poet.Breton was born in Tinchebray, Orne. His early involvement with the dadaists revealed itself in such works as Mont de piété (1919); in the same year he co-founded the ...
Anthologie de l'humour noir
First published by Breton in 1940, forbidden by the Vichy regime, and republished in an augmented edition in 1966, this inventively titled collection brings together many of the Surrealists' ...
anti-play
A theatre work in which the creator sets out to subvert and counter the theatrical conventions of the day, e.g. by the use of long silences, inactivity, nonsequential plotting or ...
Antonin Artaud
(1896–1948)French actor, director, and drama theoretician, who originated the theory of the Theatre of Cruelty.Artaud was born in Marseilles and began his career as an actor. He became interested in ...
Aurélien-Marie Lugné-Poe
(1869–1940)French actor and director. His early acting carer was inauspicious, in Antoine's Théâtre Libre and Fort's Théâtre d'*Art; but at the latter he encountered the work of Maeterlinck, with ...
avant-garde
(Fr. ‘vanguard’).Term used in the arts to denote those who make a radical departure from tradition. In 20th‐cent. mus., Stockhausen may be regarded as avant‐garde, but not Shostakovich.
Cacá Rosset
(1954– )Brazilian director, actor, and television personality. With Luiz Roberto Galizia and Alice Vergueiro, Rosset founded Teatro Ornitorrinco (Platypus Theatre) in 1977. He became known for his ...
Czech Republic
A formerly communist country that had a ‘velvet revolution’ and a fairly painless transition to a market economyThe Czech Republic has two main geographical areas. The largest, to the west, is ...
Eugène Ionesco
(1912–94), playwright.The French‐Romanian playwright, an exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd, has been a favorite of Off‐Broadway companies and collegiate and regional theatres since the early ...
Fernando Arrabal
(1932– )Spanish playwright, novelist, and filmmaker. After a traumatic childhood and law studies, he moved to Paris, where he became linked with the theatre of the absurd through French versions ...
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
(1876–1944)Italianauthor best known as the founder of Futurism. He shot to international prominence when his short and provocative text ‘The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’ was published on the ...
Gémier Firmin
(b. Aubervilliers, France, 21 Feb. 1869; d. Paris, 26 Nov. 1933)Actor, director and teacher who made his début with Antoine (Théâtre Libre, then Théâtre de l'œuvre, where he played ...
Guillaume Apollinaire
(1880–1918)French poet, prose writer, and art critic. He was a prominent figure in the avant‐garde in Paris in the years before the First World War, and an ardent supporter ...
International Centre for Theatre Research
Theatre company, founded in 1970 by Peter Brook and administrator Micheline Rozan. The centre is a multicultural theatre research and production group based since 1974 at the Bouffes du Nord ...
Jan Grossman
(1925–93)Czech director and critic, for the greater part of his life ostracized and persecuted by the communist regime. First esteemed for his intelligent criticism (including influential ...
Jarry, Alfred (1873–1907) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
He is chiefly remembered for his avant-garde farce Ubu Roi (1896). His work foreshadowed surrealism.
Jarry, Alfred (1873–1907) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
(1873–1907).
French writer and eccentric, whose life and work anticipated and inspired Dadaism, Surrealism, and much
Jarry, Alfred Reference library
Brian Singleton
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
(1873–1907)
French playwright, most famous for Ubu roi (Théâtre de l'Œuvre, Paris, 1896), performed when Jarry...
Jarry, Alfred Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
(1873–1907),
French poet and dramatist, whose Ubu-roi is now considered the founder-play of the modern avant-garde theatre. Written when Jarry was 15 years old and first ...
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