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1959
 
    
Harold Pinter's second play in London's West End, The Caretaker, immediately brings him an international reputation       
1960
 
     
Paul Scofield plays Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons        
1962
 
     
US dramatist Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway        
1965
 
    
Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple is produced in New York       
1966
 
    
Austrian author Peter Handke provokes interest with his first play Offending the Audience       
1966
 
    
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard, is produced at the Edinburgh Festival       
1967
 
    
English playwright Alan Ayckbourn has his first success with Relatively Speaking       
1967
 
    
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, by English dramatist Peter Nichols, has its premiere in London       
1970
 
    
Italian playwright Dario Fo's black comedy Accidental Death of an Anarchist has its premiere in Milan       
1972
 
   
English dramatist Caryl Churchill's first play, Owners, is produced in London