ANGELS
A wry, grotesque and tragic-comical story about three generations of the same family, in which incest, violence and alcoholism have been permanent ingredients. Parents and grannies appear in flashbacks from a traumatized past before the two youngest members of the family and thus create the schizophrenic reality which a visiting…
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The musical Änglagård is based on the film of the same name, and just like in the film, the musical starts with the announcement of a death, which causes the main character Fanny to start her search for her roots. Together with her faithful, extravagant companion Zac, she leaves the…
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This absurd monologue takes place in nowhere, where the prison guard Aron impatiently awaits the prisoner sentenced to death – a girl-like female figure. All he wants is to go home and watch an important football match. Premiered at Teater Normlösa på Backstage, Stockholms Stadsteater 1999.
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A riveting portrayal of the relationship between two societal outsiders, a Moroccan immigrant named Ali and an elderly German cleaning lady named Emmi. This is the story about two lonely people who come together in an odd marriage despite the discrimination of their co-workers and the dissociation of their family.…
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The only connection between the brothers Eirik and Berg is their father, but when he dies they are confronted with their relationship and the need for both of them to change. Stockmann has written a modern chamber play about the dialectic between fear and brutality, slavery and power. The play…
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Based on the book by George Orwell. Adapted by Peter Hall. Lyrics by Adrian Mitchell. Music by Richard Peaslee. This musical begins as a young boy takes the novel Animal Farm from his bookshelf and sits by his toy barnyard to read. While he does so, the barnyard becomes an…
Read moreANIMAL KINGDOM, THE
An awkward love triangle is created when a publisher (Howard) encounters a moral speed bump and engages in an affair with an open-minded artist (Harding) while married to a stodgy suburbanite (Loy). Complicating matters is the tendency of the mistress to play the role of unassuming wife while inelegant and…
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This is a most absurd comedy; two drug dealers on the run, Dantly and Burris, have taken refuge in a deserted motel during a snow storm. Here they await the next order from their boss. Then what happens, is that while Dantly is relieving himself with his trousers down around…
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Howard Barker’s Animals In Paradise is an uncompromising look at violence, authority and passion. Known for his distaste for convention and love of ambiguity, Barker’s work spans the distance between two sovereign nations at war: one that eats with forks, and the other with spoons. The students are rioting, the…
Read moreAnisette Koppel
Annisette Koppel (born 1948) is a Danish singer and co-founder of the band Savage Rose which she started in 1968 with the brothers Thomas Koppel og Anders Koppel.
Read moreAnna Jordan
ANNA JORDAN is an award winning, English playwright, director and acting tutor. After graduating from LAMDA drama school she set up her own company, Without A Paddle, now a multi award-winning theatre company and network. Her work has been presented at Royal Court, Royal Exchange (Manchester) and internationally, with several…
Read moreANNA KARENINA (HELEN EDMUNDSON)
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoy’s masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature…it is a novel of social realism that perfectly bares the Russian…
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This adaptation distils Tolstoy’s great novel into extraordinary and gripping drama. Anna Karenina, a married woman falls passionately in love with the devastatingly handsome Count Vronsky. She deserts her husband and child to live with her lover. But as society shuns her, fear and suspicion of Vronsky’s love and fidelity…
Read moreAnna Nygren
Anna Nygren (b. 1990) is a Swedish playwright and screenwriter. She is educated from the writing academy in Biskops-Arnö and has a master’s degree in literature. Through a number of years she worked with children – and youth’s plays in Norrkoping, but is now working in Goteborg as a writer…
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In this play, Jepsen deals with the type of person, who throws himself into the abyss, hoping to be able to fly. More specifically, the person in this play is the manipulator, Anna, who is interested in art. So without any certifications, she simulates having a doctorate and cheats her…
Read moreAnna Simberg
Anna Simberg is a Finnish playwright and the director of Labbet working with new Swedish language drama in Finland. She is the chairman of a working group dealing with equality issues in Swedish-language theatres in Finland and a board member of the Finnish Dramatists’ Union.
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This is the best play of Abell and our best resistance drama too. At superior level the play deals with the Danish politics at the time before the German occupation. Later it appears to be a premonition of the official politics of Danish cooperation during the German occupation. We are…
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This is a most gripping and original play about the eternal triangle. It focuses on the 30 years old hypnotist, Anna who is in the process of moving. With her is Lynn, who is in her early twenties and is both her tenant and patient. The atmosphere is rather tense…
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Spring has come, at last. The light is returning. The light that everyone in Skagen is dependent on, the light that makes artists make a pilgrimage to the small fishing village in Northern Denmark. Anna Ancher is on the verge on her breakthrough on the Copenhagen art scene. But it…
Read moreANNE EN ZEF ( ANNE UND ZEF)
ANNE EN ZEF portrays the fictitious meeting of Anne Frank and an Albanian boy, Zef in the afterlife. Based partially on Anne Frank’s famous diary, the two main characters share an experience of living in fear whilst in hiding, yet both Anne and Zef refused to give up, despite their…
Read moreANNE MARIE GIFT CARL NIELSEN
Inspired by sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, a portrait of the modern relationship is drawn. Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen believed in love. She was the mother of three and wife of the famous composer, Carl Nielsen. But first and foremost she was an artist. Anne Marie and Carl created a new way…
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15 F / 11 M / Ballet Full-length musical with 2 acts 8 Sets This is the classic tale about the parentless girl Anne Shirley, who rises from outright poverty to happiness in the countryside, purely because of her own vigour, stamina and persona. During the show we share many…
Read moreANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS
Henry VIII’s obsession with siring a male heir endangers all around him: his courtiers, his government servants, and, especially, young Anne Boleyn. What ensues is both more, and less, than a love story; it changes England forever.
Read moreAnnette K. Olesen
Annette K. Olesen (born 1965) is a Danish theatre and film director trained at The National Film School of Denmark (1987 – 1991). She was nominated for The Golden Bear at the Berlin Film festival in 2002 and has since won several awards for her films.
Read moreAnnina Enckell
Annina Enckell (born 1957) is a Finnish author and dramaturge trained at the Theatre School in Helsinki. Between 1985 and 1993 she worked at the literary department at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki. She has written children’s plays, stage adaptations and has been the dramaturge behind several films. Furthermore she…
Read moreANNIVERSARY, THE
Mother keeps a tight hold on all three of her sons with gifts, threats and ruthless exploitation of their weaknesses. But as the family is unwillingly brought together to celebrate Mum’s wedding anniversary (regardless of deceased Dad), revolt is in the air. One son gathers the courage to tell Mum…
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A cross-country pilgrimage on bicycles from Venice, CA to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA. ANOTHER AMERICA is a free-wheeling portrait of the country itself as well as a journey of self discovery for two brothers and their best friend.“A finely crafted life-affirming generously spirited play.”—britishtheatre.com“Vivid writing! Everything…
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Marcus Hubbard is a vicious man living in the Deep South who profited from the Civil War. He is also a mean father and husband. Then one son, Ben, finds out that Marcus was responsible for the death of Confederate troops and threatens to blow the whistle. This play begins…
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The same actor plays two characters: the adult Leonard Lands, a South African pianist, and Ike, Leonard’s father. In Act I, Leonard’s mother is finally able to send him overseas for a proper musical education after Ike dies. Act II takes place thirty-five years later. Leonard is in a London…
Read moreAnthony Burgess
1917-93, His novels are marked by a surreal, darkly comic imagination. Burgess is acknowledged to have been one of the most imaginative and experimental English prose stylists. His best-known work is A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1962), written in an imaginary teen slang and set in a classless, futuristic society, where an…
Read moreAnthony McCarten
Anthony McCarten, is a commercially successful playwright, also writing poetry and fiction. He was born in New Plymouth. His first play was INVITATION TO A SECOND CLASS CARRIAGE (Depot Theatre, Wellington, 1984). His next, YELLOW CANARY MAZURKA, was selected for the 1986 New Zealand Playwrights’ Workshop and premièred the following…
Read moreAnthony Newley
Anthony Newley was born Sep 24, 1931 London, Hackney, England. As a British entertainer Anthony Newley began as a child star, passing for 10 or 11 even as the Artful Dodger in OLIVER TWIST (1948), when in fact he was already of driving and shaving age. As a young leading…
Read moreAnthony Shaffer
The twin brother of equally celebrated playwright, Peter Shaffer, Anthony Shaffer’s name, despite his other achievements, inevitably evokes his famously twisty, two-hander, SLEUTH (1970), triumphant on Broadway as well as in London, and in 1972 turned into a successful film, from his own screenplay.
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”Was Antichrist my ”inferno-crisis”? My kinship with Strindberg?” Lars Von Trier asks himself after finishing the tale about a psychiatrist and his wife who mourn the tragic loss of their son. They retreat to an outlying cabin in the woods, “Eden”, in which she once wrote a thesis about the…
Read moreANTICHRIST (ANNIKA SILKEBERG / LARS VON TRIER)
“Antichrist” tells the story of a couple who, after the death of their child, retreat to a cabin in the woods hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse; the man experiences strange visions and the woman…
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This play takes place among the petite bourgeoisie and is a provoking opposition against the state of the world. With his fantastic imagery, Schwabs manages to touch directly on one’s innermost and deepest emotions, in a very intelligent manner. It is a bitter farce that encourages radical actions and at…
Read moreANTIGONE DER SOPHOKLES, DIE
Antigone, also known as The Antigone of Sophocles, is an adaptation by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of Hölderlin’s translation of Sophocles’ tragedy. Written in 1947, it was first performed at the Chur Stadttheater in Switzerland in 1948 with Helene Weigel in the lead role.
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In ANTIGONES HÄNDE Simon Werle brings the classical antique characters in a new lighting. The pledge is over. Oedipus has blinded himself; Kreon comes to see the day of light and overtakes the city. He occupies the temples and states that it’s the end of the priests and the oracles’…
Read moreAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
French aviator and writer, real life hero who looked at adventure and danger with poet’s eyes – sometimes from the viewpoint of a child. Saint-Exupéry’s most famous work is THE LITTLE PRINCE (1943), which he also illustrated. It has become one of the classics of children’s literature of the 20th…
Read moreAnton Tjekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 –1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.Chekhov…
Read moreAntonio Skármeta
Antonio Skármeta (b. 1940) is a Chilean writer. He is educated in literature and philosophy at Colombia University, New York, where after he settled down in Buenos Aires and then West Berlin. After the end of Pinochet’s military dictatorship in 1989, he returned to Chile in order to fight for…
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Anton’s heart is too big. His mother says it’s because he has so much love inside of him, but Anton knows that it can’t be the reason why he is breathless constantly and has to be hospitalised all the time: he needs a new heart. One night, Anton suddenly finds…
Read moreANY OTHER BUSINESS
The scene of this psychological thriller is the big executive suite of the business concern and of the sly men of industry, who act. In London the play is known for being as exciting as Agatha Christie.
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The president of a large corporation is using the executive suite to house his young mistress, whom he sees once a week. A young man who has sold his factory to the middle-aged romancer is upset to find it about to be closed for tax advantages. Directed to the suite…
Read moreANYONE FOR BREAKFAST
In this merry comedy of marital mishaps the’scene is set for an evening and morning of riotous misunderstandin’s and mistaken identities as the guilty parties in question try desperately to keep their romantic secrets secret! Your audience will be kept on a roar for two hours and at the end…
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The action in this musical takes place on board the luxurious cruise ship “S.S. American” en route to England from New York. On the ship we find the young and beautiful American heiress Hope Harcourt, her dressy fiancé Sir Evelyn Oakland and her Mother. Furthermore there is the Bishop Dobson…
Read moreAPART FROM GEORGE
George Sutton has forged a life tending and clearing the waterlogged Fenlands for a local landowner. When he loses his job, he searches in vain to find a purpose and a sense of self worth. The play is a dark, poetic exploration of the effects of unemployment on a family,…
Read moreAphra Behn
Aphra Behn stars in the canon of English literature as the first known English woman to earn her living by the pen. She is famous for her prose work OROONOKO (1688) and for her comic Restoration dramas such as THE ROVER (1681) and THE LUCKY CHANCE (1686). THE FORC’D MARRIAGE,…
Read moreAPOKALYPTISCHE SHOW VON DEN VIER FLÜSSEN MANHATTANS, DIE
The year is 2030. The poles have melted do to global warming; the water in New York is poised, only Manhattan has clean drinking water. 4 women have drank too much of the rationed water and are hold poisoned. Only a new recycle system can help them, but it’s expensive,…
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This musical goes behind the scene of show business and reveals all the ambitions, excitement, insecurity, loyalty or lack of it that belongs in the theatre world. The main character, Margo Channing befriends the admirer Eve Harrington, who instantly starts to pull wires in order to take over Margo’s position…
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An assorted group of travelers are staying at a Jerusalem hotel: Lady Westholme and her companion, a young English doctor and her French colleague, a debonair American and a pugnacious Lancashireman. Another guest, Mrs. Boynton, is a domineering American invalid with four stepchildren whose facade of devotion masks enough hatred…
Read moreARABIAN NIGHTS –LOVE OF KAMAR AND BUDUR, THE
ALF LAYLAH WA LAYLAH or 1001 NIGHT’S FAIRY TALES is the most heard of oriental work in the west. For centuries the learned looked down their noses at the inelegant style of the play and its mix of elevated and simple language. The first collection of the stories was written…
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It is the wedding night at King Shahrayars palace. Though unlike other newly wedded brides, the new queen Sheherazade is to be killed at dawn just like her many predecessors at the palace. However, Sheherazade is an compelling storyteller, which may just be enough to save her. Because for one…
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This play moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition. As the Arcadian landscape is being transformed into picturesque Gothic gardens, complete with a hermitage, thirteen-year-old Lady Thomasina and her tutor delve…
Read moreARCANGELI NON GIOCANO A FLIPPER, GLI
This fast-moving play is one of Fo’s most accomplished farces and the first to combine political-satirical content in a Brechtian form that relies on paradoxical situations to make its point. Set in the industrial outskirts of Milan, it follows a group of louts and their butt, Lofty, a simple man…
Read moreARCHBISHOP’S CEILING, THE
A powerful and probing work exploring the dilemma of the creative artist in a totalitarian state. The play is set in a former Archbishop’s palace in an Eastern European capital within a room which has probably been bugged by the secret police. It examines the relationship between four writers, friends…
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