AJAX
In Fassbinder’s version of AJAX the hero isn’t ridiculous but rather tragically. A strong musical version of Sophocle’s tragedy.
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Ensemble: Captain of soldiers, soldiers, attendants, young artists, tributaries, first stonemason, second stonemason, peasants.
Read moreAki Kaurismäki
Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (b. 1957) is a Finish film director. He had his debut in 1981 and attracted a lot of attention with his disrespectful screen version of the Dostoyevsky novel “Crime and Punishment “(1983). In the following years he has directed a number of films and is known for…
Read moreAksel Erhardsen
Aksel Erhardsen (born 1927) en a popular Danish actor and director trained at Odense Theatre School 1953 – 1955. He has worked at all major Danish theatres as well playing in several films and television productions.
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Ellen is the executive psychiatrist at a hospital, a well educated middle-aged woman with a father fixation and a little experience of love. Jim is a nurse, recently divorced and obsessed with music. Irene has been in hospital because of a depression. Tage is also hospitalized but with signs of…
Read moreAl Dubin
In tandem with composer Harry Warren, lyricist Al Dubin enjoyed a remarkable run of hits throughout the 1930s, authoring standards like “We’re in the Money,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” and “Lullaby of Broadway.” Alexander Dubin was born June 10, 1891, in Zurich, Switzerland, but raised primarily in Philadelphia,…
Read moreALADDIN
Sebastian’s musicalversion of the famous story about Aladdins adventures, where he meets the spirit of the lamp, who can bring him to whereever he wants and give him all the treasures of the world. But the good things do not always come without problems. Additional music by Morten Kærså, better…
Read moreAlan Ayckbourn
English playwright and artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, England, from 1970. His abundant output, characterized by comic dialogue and teasing experiments in dramatic structure, includes RELATIVELY SPEAKING (1967), ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR (1973), THE NORMAN CONQUESTS (1974; a trilogy), JOKING APART (1979), INTIMATE EXCHANGES (1982), A WOMAN IN…
Read moreAlan Ball
Alan Ball grew up in Marietta, Georgia. He studied theatre at Florida State University focusing mostly on acting and scriptwriting. After his graduation, he moved to New York where he began working as art director on several trade magazines. In addition, his play FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS was…
Read moreAlan Bennett
English dramatist and screenwriter. His works treat, with macabre, gruesome comedy, such subjects as class, senility, illness, and death. They include the series of monologues for television TALKING HEADS (1987) and TALKING HEADS II (1998), and the play THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III (1991), made into the critically acclaimed film…
Read moreAlan Bleasdale
Alan Bleasdale (b. 1946) is an English television dramatist, best known for writing several social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people.
Read moreAlan Bowne
Alan Bowne (1945-1989) was an American playwright and author. He was a member of the New Dramatists. He wrote a number of plays including Beirut, Forty-Deuce, Sharon and Billy, and The Beany and Cecil Show, many of which are available from Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
Read moreAlan Harris
Alan Harris is a Welsh playwright. His work has been staged across the globe from London to Washington and Tokyo. In 2011 he set up Liveartshow, a company specialising in new theatre with music. The company staged MANGA SISTER, a contemporary dance opera, at The Yard, London and the same…
Read moreAlan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (1918 – 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world’s most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.…
Read moreAlan Menken
Alan Menken (b. 1949) is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist.Menken is best known for his numerous scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, most notably, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas, all of which won him at least one Academy…
Read moreAlan Price
Alan Price (b. 1942) is a British musician, best known as the original keyboardist for the English band The Animals. He is also known for his solo work. Price is a self-taught musician and was a founding member of the Tyneside group The Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo, which…
Read moreAlan Shearman
Alan Shearman is an American actor, writer, director and playwright. His plays include Footlight Frenzy, Bullshot Crummond, El Grande Coca-Cola and The Scandalous Adventures of Sir Toby Trollope.
Read moreALARMS & EXCURSIONS
This play consists of 8 one acts, two longer ones and 6 short sketches. They are played by four actors – as characters in their 30’ies and 40’ies – forming two couples, at least most of the time. In ALARMS, a married couple visits another couple and slowly they are…
Read moreALASKA ROULETTE
Tora has been diagnosed with an incurable disease and so every one around her is preparing for the worst. However, after one year medical science has come up with a cure which means that people have to adapt to the fact that Tora will survive. A most gripping two-hander for…
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Albert has a degree in philosophy and with a job as bridge painter has a new perspective on life up high. Through CPA’s and programmed efficiency, he replaces four painters and the bridge is all his. He also has to get married – but that’s another story. He’s bothered by…
Read moreAlbert Camus
Albert Camus was born by French parents in Algeria in 1913, but moved to France in 1940, where he became active in the French resistance. It was here that he met the philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre. Camus and Sartre became two of the most prominent writers developing modern existential philosophy and…
Read moreAlbert Hackett
Albert Maurice Hackett (1900 – 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter most noted for his collaborations with his partner and wife Frances Goodrich. Not long after marrying Frances Goodrich, the couple went to Hollywood in the late 1920s to write the screenplay for their stage success Up Pops the…
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A radio version is also available An early play about an amnesiac holed up in the fantasy world of Mickey Spillane. The play explores the relationship between speech and thought in the shaping of perceptions. Published by Currency Press 1983
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It is both logical and surprising that the same man, who adapted Dickens’ ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ with great success, brings this impressive and grand stage production to life. Albert Speer (1905 –1981) was Hitler’s favourite architect, master builder and later on, his War Minister. During the Nürnberg Trials, he succeeded in…
Read moreAlbert Wichmann
Albert Wichmann is a director, actor, producer and manager as well as sponsor and fund-raiser in cultural and business matters. Albert Wichmann is educated at the Aarhus Teater’s school, Denmark 1970/71 and Statens Teaterskole 1972/73. From 1971 – 72 he worked as an actor at Det Danske Teater. He has…
Read moreALBERTINE, EN CINQ TEMPS
Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine. Albertine at 30 is recuperating in the country after viciously beating her 11-year-old daughter; Albertine at 40 is a virago at war with the world; at 50 she has…
Read moreAldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 – 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels…
Read moreAleksa Okanovic
ALEKSA OKANOVIC (b. 1973) was born in Belgrade, but grew up in Denmark, where he graduated from The Danish National School of Playwriting in 2003. In the following years, he studied philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and subsequent studied at the film school in Prague. Already at the age…
Read moreAleksandr Ostrovskij
Aleksandr Nikolaevitj Ostrovskij (1823-1886) was a Russian playwright. He is considered to be a pioneer within Russian theatre and wrote more than 40 plays between 1850-1885.
Read moreAleksej Arbuzov
Born in Moscow in May 26, 1908. His father was Russian and his mother Greek. His first contact with theatre was in 1922, when he was hired as an extra at the Marinski Theatre of St. Petersburg. He developed his skills in a theatre studio (1924) and the following year…
Read moreAlexander Dinelaris
ALEXANDER DINELARIS (Additional Book and Lyrics) was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards in 2003 for his work on the book and lyrics for the Off-Brodway hit, ZANNA, DON’T! His critically acclaimed play THE CHAOS THEORIES played to sold out audiences, and was a top pick of the 2004 New…
Read moreAlfred Grünwald
Alfred Grünwald (1884-1951) was an Austrian author, librettist, and lyricist. Some of his better-known works were written in conjunction with the composers Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kalman, Oscar Straus, Paul Abraham, and Robert Stolz. Alfred Grünwald worked for a theatrical agency before turning to libretto writing. A number of Grünwald’s librettos…
Read moreAlfred Uhry
Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright best known for the play and screenplay of DRIVING MISS DAISY. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Uhry graduated from Brown University. Uhry’s early work for the stage was as a lyricist and librettist for a number of musicals, including AMERICA’S…
Read moreALICE
Taking a starting point in Lewis Carroll’s story, Laura Wade has turned the Victorian Alice into a modern 12-year-old girl, who is gifted with a lively imagination and a very strange family. Her 17-year-old brother, Jow, is dead and everyone is gathered at his funeral. Slowly Alice disappears into the…
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Alice falls and falls and falls through a rabbit hole and finds herself in a room with many doors. The smallest door leads to a secret garden, but Alice is to big to get through the door. With help from a talking rabbit, Alice makes her way through and all…
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USA’s great author Henry James and his brother the well-known psychologist and philosopher William James had a sister, Alice James, who sank into depression at an early age and built up the courage to commit suicide her whole life…She died from cancer age 43. This play is about the woman,…
Read moreALICE IN WONDERLAND (Magnus Lindman)
On a glorious summer’s afternoon, young Alice happens upon a smartly dressed white rabbit looking at his watch and muttering ‘I’m too late!’ This not being an everyday occurrence, she follows him down a nearby rabbit hole – and fails into Wonderland. On her weird and wonderful journey to find…
Read moreALICE NEL PAESE SENZA MERAVIGLIE
The monologue is a surreal stream-of-consciousness and a fantasy about all the things that aren’t told in Lewis Caroll’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND. An orgy takes place at the tea-party and ends up with Alice being split between society’s female ideal and her own after her ‘ride’ (sexual debut) with a…
Read moreALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND
On a glorious summer’s afternoon, young Alice happens upon a smartly dressed white rabbit looking at his watch and muttering ‘I’m too late!’ This not being an everyday occurrence, she follows him down a nearby rabbit hole – and fails into Wonderland. On her weird and wonderful journey to find…
Read moreALIGATOR MOUTH, TADPOLE ASS
ALLIGATOR MOUTH, TADPOLE ASS is a twistedly queer memory play about a troubled man in 1986 looking for answers at Miss Chelley’s Fortune Shop in NYC. Instead of the answers he craves, he connects with a young man working there whose memory is constantly triggered by their incredibly intense connection.…
Read moreAlistair Beaton
Alistair Beaton (b. 1947) is a Scottish left wing political satirist, journalist, radio presenter, novelist and television writer. At one point in his career he was also a speechwriter for Gordon Brown. Born in Glasgow, Beaton was educated at the Universities of Edinburgh, Moscow and Bochum.
Read moreALIVE IN DINNER SUITS
This stage play is set in a radio drama studio in 1950 and deals with the activities of the staff of a radio drama department. Initially we seem to be watching these executives acting in a radio play, the play of their own office lives in front of us. In…
Read moreALL IN THE TIMING
SURE THING. Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the way to falling in love. (1 man, 1 woman.) WORDS, WORDS, WORDS recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing…
Read moreALL MY DREAMS COME TRUE – ET DISNEYDRAMA
Two people are depressed. They are tired of everyday life, of Disney’s stereotypical ideals, of the financial crises and of the fact that growth is the only answer which politicians know of. They long for real adventures about life and death, for barricades to defend and last but not least:…
Read moreALL MY SONS
The play was written in 1947 – and the first great success of Arthur Miller’s supremely influential career – is a compelling story of love, guilt and the corrupting power of greed. Joe Keller is alleged to have supplied World War II fighter planes with defective engines, leading to the…
Read moreALL OF US
Jess has a great life: A job she loves, a sharp sense of humour and a close group of friends. When austerity threatens the world she has worked hard to build, Jess makes a stand to protect those she holds most dear. Inspired by real-life experiences of disabled people in…
Read moreALL SHOOK UP
Inspired by, and contains Elvis Presley songs. In a small square town in a small square state comes a guitar playing casual labourer who changes everything and everyone on his way. This is a vital musical fantasy, making you want to dance in your “Blue Suede Shoes” to classics such…
Read moreALL THAT FALL
The old and fat Mrs. Rooney is headed for the little Irish railway station to collect her blind husband. On the way she meets several men of her own age and has a little conversation with them. One of them gives her a ride, despite the difficulties of getting her…
Read moreALL THE GREAT BOOKS (ABRIDGED)
The Reduced Shakespeare Company has compressed Shakespeare in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Abridged), cut the Bible to the bone with THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD (Abridged). In addition, they have now collected 83 of the world’s great classics in a pocket book format – naturally done so in…
Read moreALL THINGS CONSIDERED
On his fiftieth birthday, a professor has decided to commit suicide because he believes that he has got nothing left to live for. Nevertheless, he is constantly disturbed in his deed by friends and colleagues all seeking his advice and support during their own hardship. Certainly a very witty comedy,…
Read moreAllan Katz
Allan Katz, born in Chicago, is a writer, producer, actor, and director. He began his writing career as an advertising copywriter. In 1970 he created the original award-winning campaign for the popcorn snack Screaming Yellow Zonkers which was the first major product to be packaged in a predominantly black box.…
Read moreAllan Miller
Allan Miller has produced 32 productions, including A WOMAN OF INDEPENDENT MEANS, FOUND A PEANUTS, A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, THE VOICE OF THE PRAIRIE. He has directed 16 productions including ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN, THE FOX, IN THE SWEET BYE EN BUY, JACQUES BREL…
Read moreALLE HANS GERNINGER
This is a grim and mysterious “comedy” about the essence of love and life. Iben has left Frans. Now Iben is with Mikael, who is also with Tine sometimes; Tine who is now with Frans. Nobody is any happier, but what else can they do? The old people have not…
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A monologue about an old comedian, who used to be met by packed arenas, but now he only fills class rooms, when teaching adult students in comedy, which often tend to be anything but funny…
Read moreALLERGY
This long one-act play tells the story of three young leftist intellectuals who get together in both an eccentric and comical situation.
Read moreALLES GUTE
On their daughter’s 40-years birthday, an elderly couple realize that they have finally let her go. Now they sit alone and don’t know what to do with themselves. Furthermore, the TV just broke! A good play for an elderly cast.
Read moreALLES KLAR
Even with the title Urs Widmer places the audience on thin ice with his farce, where murder and robbery is part of the action. Here we follow the Schmitt family, where everyone tries to understand each other, but ends up with a number of misunderstandings…
Read moreALLES ÜBER LIEBE
Anna and Carlos have entered therapy as a final attempt to save their relationship. This becomes the basis of a string of entertaining scenes between a very troubled married couple and a therapist with a challenging task. A hilarious comedy where the sparks fly to all sides.
Read moreALLES WILL HET VUUR (ALLES FÜR DAS FEUER)
King Mark and his knight Tristan have sworn on eternal friendship on their way to queen Isolde, but everything changes, when Mark decides to marry Isolde…
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There’s hammering rains and floods across the country, and rivers threaten to overflow their banks, but the poet, Kraus, doesn’t take any notice. He is consumed by his writer’s block, only disturbed by his young attractive maid, Asra. Asra, however, is worried about her brother, who she keeps hidden in…
Read moreALLRAKÄRASTE SYSTER
This is an amiable little one-act play about Barbro who feels lonely and is jealous of her new baby brother. For comfort she creates two imaginary friends with whom she has many great and formidable adventures. However, when Barbro’s highest wish comes true in shape of a puppy, she no…
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