AMERICA’S GREATEST PLAYWRIGHTS

Sonya Burkalyova11 B FORM

Williams Tennessee(1911-1983)

Major plays

•The Glass Menagerie•A Streetcar Named Desire •The Rose Tattoo •Baby Doll •Cat on a Hot Tin Roof•Suddenly, Last Summer •The Fugitive Kind (1959)•Ten Blocks on the Camino Real •Boom! (1968)•The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

QUOTES"All good art is an

indiscretion."– Tennessee Williams

Arthur Miller(1915-2005)

Major plays

•All My Sons•The Hook •Let's Make Love•The Misfits•Everybody Wins•Death of a Salesman•The Crucible

QUOTES"The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came

home to roost."– Arthur Miller

Edward Albee (1928)

Major plays

•The Zoo Story•The Death of Bessie Smith•The Sandbox•Fam and Yam •The American Dream•Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?•Tiny Alice•The Goat or Who is Sylvia?•Knock! Knock! Who's There!? •Me Myself and I•At Home At The Zoo

 QUOTES

“Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come

back a short distance correctly.”

David Mamet(1947)

Major plays

•Lakeboat•The Duck Variations•Sexual Perversity in Chicago•Squirrels•American Buffalo•A Life in the Theatre•Bobby Gould In Hell•The Cryptogram•Boston Marriage•November•The Anarchist

QUOTES

“There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard

enough.”