Direction of the Marquis de Sade) was first performed in West Berlin in 1964 and in New York City a year later. Tom Stoppard ’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. Arrabal's Le Cimetière des voitures (Automobile Graveyard) was also first performed in 1966. Beckett’s Catastrophe -- which