Curated category
Modernist theatre
- T. S. EliotThomas Stearns Eliot was born on the 26th of September 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He lived at a house on Locust Street for his first sixteen years before…
- Henrik IbsenHenrik Johan Ibsen was born on the 20th of March 1828 into an affluent merchant family in Skien. His father Knud Plesner Ibsen and mother Marichen Cornelia…
- Bertolt BrechtEugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was born on the 10th of February 1898 in Augsburg, Germany. His father worked for a paper mill and became its managing…
- Anton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on the 29th of January 1860 in Taganrag, a commercial port city on the Sea of Azov. He lived at Politseyskaya street, which…
- Eugene O'NeillEugene Gladstone O'Neill was born on the 16th of October 1888, inside the Barrett House hotel located at Longacre Square in New York City.
- W. H. AudenWystan Hugh Auden was born at 54 Bootham in York, England, on the 21st of February 1907. His father George Augustus Auden worked as a physician while his…
- Karel ČapekKarel Čapek was born on the 9th of January 1890 in the village of Malé Svatoňovice. This small settlement sat within the rugged hills of the Bohemian…
- Jean AnouilhJean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was born on the 23rd of June 1910 in Cérisole, a small village near Bordeaux. His father François worked as a tailor and…
- Luigi PirandelloLuigi Pirandello was born on the 28th of June 1867 in Girgenti, now known as Agrigento. He grew up near the poor suburb of Porto Empedocle within an…
- Vladimir MayakovskyVladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was born in 1893 in Baghdati, Kutais Governorate, Georgia. His father worked as a local forester while his mother managed…
- Sergei EisensteinSergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was born on the 11th of February 1898 in Riga, within the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire.
- Natalia GoncharovaNatalia Sergeevna Goncharova entered the world on the 3rd of July 1881 in the village of Nagaevo. This rural location now sits within the Chernsky District…