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Drama timeline
Chicken Soup with Barley begins a trilogy by English playwright Arnold Wesker
The Fire Raisers, by Swiss dramatist Max Frisch, is performed in Zürich
Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka's play The Swamp Dwellers is produced in London
Harold Pinter's first play in London's West End, The Birthday Party, closes in less than a week
Harold Pinter's second play in London's West End, The Caretaker, immediately brings him an international reputation
William Gibson's play The Miracle Worker dramatizes the extraordinary story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
Paul Scofield plays Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons
US dramatist Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway
President Kennedy, in divided Berlin, makes the dramatic declaration: Ich bin ein Berliner ('I am a Berliner')
Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple is produced in New York
Austrian author Peter Handke provokes interest with his first play Offending the Audience
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard, is produced at the Edinburgh Festival
English playwright Alan Ayckbourn has his first success with Relatively Speaking
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, by English dramatist Peter Nichols, has its premiere in London
Italian playwright Dario Fo's black comedy Accidental Death of an Anarchist has its premiere in Milan
English dramatist Caryl Churchill's first play, Owners, is produced in London
German author Botho Strauss's play Three Acts of Recognition wins him an international audience
Kenneth MacMillan turns a double suicide of 1889 into a ferociously dramatic ballet, Mayerling
Peter Shaffer's play about Mozart, Amadeus, has its premiere in London
US author Sam Shepard's play True West has its premiere in New York
Chariots of Fire, directed by Hugh Hudson, dramatizes the rivalry between two British athletes at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Little Shop of Horrors, by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, opens in New York
Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off opens in London's West end
Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser is partly inspired by the British actor Donald Wolfit
Talking Heads, a series of dramatic monologues by English author Alan Bennett, is broadcast on British TV
