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1920
 
     
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart work together as Columbia University students, creating the musical Fly With Me        
1921
 
     
Within a five-week period the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello writes two masterpieces, Six Characters in Search of an Author immediately followed by Henry IV        
1921
 
    
The Czech playwright Karel Capek gives the world the term 'robot', in the title of his play Rossum's Universal Robots       
1921
 
    
Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie is performed in New York       
1922
 
    
The Broadway show Ziegfeld Follies features an exciting new dance, the Charleston       
1923
 
     
Sean O'Casey's first play The Shadow of a Gunman is performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin        
1923
 
    
US dramatist Elmer Rice establishes his reputation with The Adding Machine, an expressionistic drama about the machine age       
1923
 
    
Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York       
1924
 
     
Sean O'Casey's second play Juno and the Paycock is performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin        
1924
 
    
Gracie Fields makes her name when she appears in London as Sally Perkins in the musical Mr Tower of London