New Drama
- Edward Albee - The Death of Bessie Smith (written)
- Jean Anouilh - Becket
- John Arden - Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
- Samuel Beckett - Embers (first broadcast)
- Bertolt Brecht - Saint Joan of the Stockyards (first performed)
- Albert Camus - The Possessed
- Jean Genet - The Blacks (first performed)
- Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun
- Eugène Ionesco - The Killer
- Judith Malina - The Connection
- Harold Pinter - The Caretaker (first published)
- Jean-Paul Sartre - The Condemned of Altona
- N. F. Simpson - One Way Pendulum
- Arnold Wesker - Roots and The Kitchen
- Tennessee Williams - Sweet Bird of Youth
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