PHOTOS OF
AVANT-GARDE
PLAYWRIGHTS
(plus a few directors & performers important to
the history of avant-garde theatre)
Left to
right: Bertolt Brecht, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz and Alfred
Jarry. 
Left to
right: Raymond Roussel, Oscar Panizza and Vadimir
Mayakovsky.
Left to right:
Vsevolod Meyerhold, Guillaume Apollinaire & Anonin
Artaud.
Left to right: Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller &
Erwin Piscator.
Left to right: Federico Garcia
Lorca, Michel de Ghelderode & Luigi Pirandello.
Left to right: Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco
and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Left to right: Jean Genet,
Tadeusz Kantor and Heiner Muller.
Left to
right: Richard Foreman, Kazuo Ohno and
Pina Bausch.
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RECOMMENDED READING
"Bash is one of the few contemporary playwrights who captures the
spirit of surrealism. In fact, surrealist figures from the past, such as
Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali and Paul Eluard, appear as characters in a
couple of his plays. Dream-like, funny, and sometimes disturbing,
SANCTUS FUMIGACI (which, in English, loosely translates to "Holy
Smoke") is recommended for fans of avant garde literature and experimental
theater."