completion of Ionesco’s Rhinocéros. Beckett’s Happy Days was first performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York on the 17th of September 1961. Albee’s Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? also premiered in New York the following year, on October 13th. Pinter’s The Homecoming premiered in London in 1964. Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade (The Persecution and