Modernist theatre

Modernist theatre was part of twentieth-century theatre relating to the art and philosophy of modernism.

List of modernist plays

List of modernist playwrights

Eugene O'Neill^[1]
Samuel Beckett^[2]
Edward Albee^[2]
Harold Pinter^[3]
Tennessee Williams^[4]
Anton Chekhov^[5]
Bertolt Brecht^[6]
Henrik Ibsen^[7]

Literature	Apollinaire Barnes Beckett Bely Breton Broch Bulgakov Chekhov Conrad Döblin Forster Faulkner Flaubert Ford Gide Hamsun Hašek Hemingway Hesse Joyce Kafka Koestler Lawrence Mann Mansfield Marinetti Musil Dos Passos Platonov Porter Proust Stein Svevo Unamuno Woolf
Poetry	Akhmatova Aldington Auden Cavafy Cendrars Crane H.D. Desnos Eliot Éluard Elytis George Jacob Lorca Lowell (Amy) Lowell (Robert) Mallarmé Moore Owen Pessoa Pound Rilke Seferis Stevens Thomas Tzara Valéry Williams Yeats
Works	In Search of Lost Time (1913–1927) The Metamorphosis (1915) Ulysses (1922) The Waste Land (1922) The Magic Mountain (1924) Mrs Dalloway (1925) The Sun Also Rises (1926) The Master and Margarita (1928–1940) The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Visual arts

Painting	Albers Arp Balthus Bellows Boccioni Bonnard Brâncuși Braque Calder Cassatt Cézanne Chagall Chirico Claudel Dalí Degas Kooning Delaunay Delaunay Demuth Dix Doesburg Duchamp Dufy Ensor Ernst Gauguin Giacometti van Gogh Goncharova Gris Grosz Höch Hopper Kahlo Kandinsky Kirchner Klee Kokoschka Léger Magritte Malevich Manet Marc Matisse Metzinger Miró Modigliani Mondrian Monet Moore Munch Nolde O'Keeffe Picabia Picasso Pissarro Ray Redon Renoir Rodin Rousseau Schiele Seurat Signac Sisley Soutine Steichen Stieglitz Toulouse-Lautrec Vuillard Wood
Film	Akerman Aldrich Antonioni Avery Bergman Bresson Buñuel Carné Cassavetes Chaplin Clair Cocteau Dassin Deren Dovzhenko Dreyer Edwards Eisenstein Epstein Fassbinder Fellini Flaherty Ford Fuller Gance Godard Hitchcock Hubley Jones Keaton Kubrick Kuleshov Kurosawa Lang Losey Lupino Marker Minnelli Murnau Ozu Pabst Pudovkin Ray (Nicholas) Ray (Satyajit) Resnais Renoir Richardson Rossellini Sirk Sjöström Sternberg Tarkovsky Tati Trnka Truffaut Varda Vertov Vigo Welles Wiene Wood
Architecture	Breuer Bunshaft Gaudí Gropius Guimard Horta Hundertwasser Johnson Kahn Le Corbusier Loos Melnikov Mendelsohn Nervi Neutra Niemeyer Rietveld Saarinen Steiner Sullivan Tatlin Mies Wright
Works	A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1886) Mont Sainte-Victoir (1887) The Starry Night (1889) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) The Dance (1909–1910) Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) Black Square (1915) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Ballet Mécanique (1923) Battleship Potemkin (1925) Metropolis (1927) Un Chien Andalou (1929) Villa Savoye (1931) Fallingwater (1936) Citizen Kane (1941) Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Performing
arts

Music	Antheil Bartók Berg Berio Boulanger Boulez Copland Debussy Dutilleux Feldman Górecki Hindemith Honegger Ives Janáček Ligeti Lutosławski Milhaud Nono Partch Russolo Satie Schaeffer Schoenberg Scriabin Stockhausen Strauss Stravinsky Szymanowski Varèse Villa-Lobos Webern Weill
Theatre	Anderson Anouilh Artaud Beckett Brecht Chekhov Ibsen Jarry Kaiser Maeterlinck Mayakovsky O'Casey O'Neill Osborne Pirandello Piscator Strindberg Toller Wedekind Wilder Witkiewicz
Dance	Balanchine Cunningham Diaghilev Duncan Fokine Fuller Graham Holm Massine Nijinsky Shawn Sokolow St. Denis Tamiris Wiesenthal Wigman
Works	Don Juan (1888) Ubu Roi (1896) Verklärte Nacht (1899) Pelléas et Mélisande (1902) Salome (1905) The Firebird (1910) Afternoon of a Faun (1912) The Rite of Spring (1913) Fountain (1917) Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) The Threepenny Opera (1928) Waiting for Godot (1953)

← Romanticism

References

^ ^a ^b "The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill: American Modernism on the World Stage". jadtjournal.org. 9 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d McGuckin, Sheila (January 1, 1996). "The Theater of the Absurd in Europe and America: Sartre, Beckett, Pinter, Albee and drama criticism". Doctoral Dissertations.
^ ^a ^b Begley, Varun (2005). Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism. University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/9781442675629. ISBN 9781442675629. JSTOR 10.3138/9781442675629.
^ ^a ^b "A Modernist Trait in 'A Streetcar Named Desire': Happy Endings are Overrated". the-artifice.com.
^ Anton Chekhov — Modernism Lab
^ Bertolt Brecht — Modernism Lab
^ Modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett: Essays from Modern Drama on JSTOR