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| 1950 |
| | | French dramatist Eugène Ionesco's play The Bald Prima Donna launches the Theatre of the Absurd | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot ('En attendant Godot') is first performed in French in Paris | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Arthur Miller's play The Crucible uses the Salem witch trials as a metaphor for the contemporary paranoia of McCarthyism | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Dylan Thomas's 'play for voices', Under Milk Wood, is broadcast on BBC radio, with Richard Burton as narrator | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is performed in New York | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The Visit, by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt, has its premiere in Zürich | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Eugene O'Neill's searing account of tensions within his own family, Long Day's Journey into Night, has its premiere in Stockholm | |
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| 1956 |
| | | John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger features in the first season of London's new English Stage Company | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Laurence Olivier brings the music-hall artist Archie Rice vibrantly to life in John Osborne's The Entertainer | |
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