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20th Century

18 plays · ordered by views in May 2026

  1. 1
    Epic Theatre

    Mother Courage and Her Children

    By Bertolt Brecht · First performed in 1941

    A furious, darkly funny anti war play that strips conflict down to money, survival and human compromise with terrifying clarity.

    361 views
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    Tragedy

    Death of a Salesman

    By Arthur Miller · First performed in 1949

    A brutal, compassionate portrait of a man destroyed by the dream he spent his life chasing, and still one of the greatest plays ever written about work, masculinity and failure.

    214 views
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    Theatre of the Absurd

    Six Characters in Search of an Author

    By Luigi Pirandello · First performed in 1921

    A thrillingly strange play that tears theatre apart in front of the audience and asks whether stories can ever capture the truth of a human life.

    102 views
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    Dramatic Comedy

    Marx in Soho: A Play on History

    By Howard Zinn · First performed in 1999

    A furious, funny and unexpectedly human solo play that drags Karl Marx out of history books and drops him directly into the chaos of modern life.

    98 views
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    Tragedy

    Death and the King’s Horseman

    By Wole Soyinka · First performed in 1975

    A thrilling and devastating play about duty, colonial violence and spiritual responsibility that still feels dangerously alive.

    92 views
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    Social Satire

    The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole

    By Kuo Pao Kun · First performed in 1985

    A deceptively simple play that turns one bureaucratic problem into a devastating portrait of grief, authority and the absurdity of modern systems.

    52 views
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    Theatre of the Absurd

    Waiting for Godot

    By Samuel Beckett · First performed in 1953

    A strange, hilarious and deeply human play about time, companionship and the terror of waiting for a life that never quite arrives.

    44 views
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    Tragedy

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    By Tennessee Williams · First performed in 1947

    A feverish, devastating portrait of desire, class and self deception that still feels dangerous every time it is performed.

    43 views
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    Social Realism

    The Seagull

    By Anton Chekhov · First performed in 1896

    A beautiful and painfully funny play about artistic failure, unreturned love and the terrible gap between the lives people dream of and the lives they actually live.

    43 views
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    Tragedy

    The Glass Menagerie

    By Tennessee Williams · First performed in 1944

    A fragile, piercing memory play about love, shame and escape that captures the sadness of family life with almost unbearable precision.

    42 views
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    Epic Theatre

    The Good Person of Szechwan

    By Bertolt Brecht · First performed in 1943

    A brilliant, unsettling play that asks one impossible question with complete clarity: how do you remain good in a society that punishes kindness at every turn?

    42 views
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    Dramatic Comedy

    The Cherry Orchard

    By Anton Chekhov · First performed in 1904

    A quietly heartbreaking masterpiece about people watching their world disappear in real time. Funny, delicate and far more savage than its reputation suggests.

    39 views
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    Tragedy

    Long Day’s Journey into Night

    By Eugene O'Neill · First performed in 1956

    A devastating family drama that strips away every illusion about love, addiction and forgiveness until all that remains is raw human need.

    36 views
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    Social Realism

    Dancing at Lughnasa

    By Brian Friel · First performed in 1990

    A tender and devastating memory play about family, freedom and the brief moments of joy that survive even in lives shaped by sacrifice.

    32 views
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    Dramatic Comedy

    Top Girls

    By Caryl Churchill · First performed in 1982

    A furious, brilliant play about ambition, feminism and the price women pay for success inside systems that were never built for them.

    31 views
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    Political Theatre

    The Crucible

    By Arthur Miller · First performed in 1953

    A furious and frightening play about fear, power and public shame that still feels dangerously close to the modern world.

    23 views
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    Dramatic Comedy

    The Visit

    By Friedrich Dürrenmatt · First performed in 1956

    A viciously funny moral nightmare about money, justice and the terrifying ease with which ordinary people learn to excuse cruelty.

    21 views
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    Dramatic Comedy

    Man and Superman

    By George Bernard Shaw · First performed in 1905

    Shaw's longest, most argumentative and most exhilarating play — a romantic comedy about a man running from a woman, wrapped around a philosophical debate between Don Juan and the Devil.

    18 views
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