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1943– · American actor and playwright
Also known as: Wallace Michael Shawn, Wally Shawn, Уоллес Шон, والاس شون, 월리스 숀, ウォーレス・ショーン
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Harold Pinter1930–2008ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetMenacing, politically charged drama built on unsettling monologue and dialogue, akin to Shawn's plays like Aunt Dan and Lemon. (AI reason)
Caryl Churchill1938–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetFormally inventive political theater probing complicity and power. (AI reason)
Thomas Bernhard1931–1989ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetRelentless, darkly comic monologues of moral and cultural disgust. (AI reason)
- Andre Gregory1934–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Collaborative philosophical conversation drama, as in My Dinner with Andre. (AI reason)
Samuel Beckett1906–1989ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSpare, existential theater dominated by obsessive voices. (AI reason)
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Edward Albee1928–2016ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetCaustic American drama exposing bourgeois self-deception. (AI reason)
David Mamet1947–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetDialogue-driven American plays dissecting moral rot. (AI reason)
Tom Stoppard1937–2025ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetIntellectually playful drama of ideas and philosophy. (AI reason)
Annie Baker1981–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetTalky, unhurried naturalistic plays attentive to inner life. (AI reason)
- Sarah Kane1971–1999ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Confrontational theater of violence, desire and moral extremity, like Shawn's The Fever and Grasses of a Thousand Colors. (AI reason)
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Get your own suggestionsKnown works
- The fever (1991)
- Evening at the Talk House (TCG Edition)
- Aunt Dan and Lemon (1985)
- Marie and Bruce (1980)
- Grasses of a thousand colors (2009)