ARCHITECT, THE
This is a play about an architect, Leo Black, who used to be a great builder everyone spoke about. Now he designs parking places. His family is falling apart and his buildings are falling down. This leaves Leo in an existential struggle as he faces the gruesome reality of his…
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In this drama the author walks whole hog and lets two people strand on an island. Two diametrically opposite character’s, they comment on each other as well as they complement the statements of one another on hidden conceptions about how you should settle the estate of the one who dies…
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Mario Jimenes is a young dreamer who delivers mail for the poet Pablo Neruda while Allende becomes the president of Chile. Mario falls head over heels in love with Beatriz, but she doesn’t notice the shy mailman until he pairs with Neruda and finds the words to win Beatriz’ heart.…
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3 F / 11 M Elvis, who created songs which inspired millions of teenagers, remains the key figure on the memories of those who found a sense of purpose, hope and future then. His songs and the way he sang them stays with a generation – a reminder of the…
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Gender and total number of actors can be changeable. “Sexy, sultry Sydney is a gold-medal city that glitters with sun-drenched attitude and seduces with beaches and bodies beautiful. Her Olympic-sized heart charmed the socks off the world during the 2000 Games and continues to beat with passion and pride. She…
Read moreARHETIP: MEDEJA ARCHETYP MEDEA (ARCHETYP: MEDEA)
The Archetype monologues Medea/Woman-Bomb/Europe function as three stories connected to contemporary Europe and neo-colonialism. All of them are written from a woman’s point of view. Medea is a well-known myth of woman who kills her children as revenge on her husband. In Medea, Ivana Sajko adds political implications – the…
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Chilensk forfatter, journalist og dramaturg. I sine analyser af massekulturen tog han ikke kun litterære metoder i brug, men også politisk analyse og sociologi. Dorfman var kulturel rådgiver for Salvador Allende regeringen i Chile. Han flygtede efter militærkuppet i 1973 og gik i eksil i Frankrig. Efterfølgende flyttede han til…
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Arild Brakstad was born in Bergen, Norway in 1972. He still lives there. Currently he is touring Norway with his one man show. Arild Brakstad has a BSC of cultural science and has also studied theatre and philosophy. As a playwright he made headlines when creating the first black metal…
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In Brian Friel’s powerful drama, set in Ballybeg Hall the decaying home of retired District Justice O’Donnell, the O’Donnell children gather to celebrate a wedding but stay to attend a funeral. Suffused with loving humour, delicate irony and exquisite sadness, Friel’s story of three sisters and their eccentric brother explores…
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Armelle and Emmanuel Patron form a duo, sister and brother, both script writers, Emmanuel is also an actor and Armelle a youth fiction writer. Their style is witty and their favourite subject is « families ». After several years of writing short series for television (Et toc, Scènes de ménage…
Read moreArne Skouen
Arne Skouen (1913 – 2003) was a Norwegian best known for his work as a film director and as a journalist. He was internationally famed for his 1957 film Ni Liv (Nine Lives). His first film was released in 1949, titled Gategutter (Street Boys). His 1959 film The Master and…
Read moreArnfinn Hagen
Arnfinn Hagen was born in Oslo in 1958. Since 1992-93, he has worked in Norsk Amatørteaterråd, later Norsk teaterråd and from 2019 Teateralliansen as a scriptconsultant/advisor at dramas.no. He translates into Norwegian from American, English, Swedish and Danish.
Read moreAROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Well-constructed and often performed American stage adaptation of Jules Verne’s remarkable classic about the daring Phileas Fogg, who puts his entire fortune on the line in a bet that it is possible to travel around the world in 80 days. Together with his faithful servant Passepartout, he embarks on a…
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Reza’s neighbour once bought a new painting, 1,60m x 1,20m, and paid 200.000 Francs for it. The canvas was completely white. And that is the starting point of this comedy about what art is or rather, can be, as well as about the three men inhabiting the stage; three city…
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Russian-born French dramatist, one of the most prominent exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd. Adamov was born into a wealthy Armenian family in Kislovodsk; at the age of four he moved with his family to Germany. Having completed his education in Paris, he settled there in 1924 and became…
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Arthur Miller (1915-2005), two times Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. Considered to be one of the most important American playwrights of recent times. Recipient of countless awards and honors. During his studies at the University of Michigan, his interest in the Greek tragedy and Henrik Ibsen was…
Read moreArthur Whitelaw
Arthur Whitelaw began his career in show business fifty years ago. His first producing venture in the New York Theatre was the hit revival of BEST FOOT FORWARD which introduced Liza Minnelli and Christopher Walken to the stage. Whitelaw co-wrote the books for and directed SNOOPY and THE TAFFETAS. In…
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Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 – 1934) was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director. In 1874 he joined R. H. Wyndham’s company at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh. After also acting in Liverpool, Pinero joined Henry Irving’s Lyceum Theatre company in London in 1876, where…
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This play exists both as radio play and a comic drama. In 1972 an elderly avant-garde artist is murdered, leaving his two friends suspecting each other. To reveal why, successive scenes flashback toward the 1920s and then progress back to 1972. Each of three was infatuated with Sophie. Before she…
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NATURE AND NURTURE depicts a classic inheritance dispute using two cottages on a Norwegian island as a starting point. The dispute triggers strong forces, as dark secrets and memories of a torn childhood dominated by assault and neglect forces one daughter, Bergljot, to start a heartbreaking battle for the right…
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Christoffer was born into the Danish upper class as the fourth generation in a family which owns the biggest steel plant in the country. He lives in Stockholm and is happily married to Maria when his father suddenly commits suicide. Against Maria’s will, Christoffer succumbs to his mother’s pressure and…
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Two doctors, a mother and daughter. The mother is a respected, experienced medic at a pharmaceutical firm. She loses her position one day when she refuses to continue covering up an obvious deficiency in a medicament on behalf of the firm. Her daughter works in a hospital and specializes in…
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AS IS focuses on the effect AIDS, then a fairly new pandemic, has on a group of friends living in New York City.
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The play concerns a group of young women who, in order to survive in the big city, abide to violence, whilst carrying a most unrealistic dream of ‘getting’ enough money, to be able to go to Bali.
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Devlin and Rebecca, a couple in their forties, are having a rather tense conversation because he demands her to answer his questions about one of her former lovers and their sadomasochistic relationship, where one of their rituals meant that she had to kiss his fists and then ask him to…
Read moreASKELADDEN OG DE GODE HJELPERNE
Askeladden is the most known character in Norwegian fairytales, and is featured in many tales. He is the son of poor smallholders, has two arrogant older brothers and is always set to manage the fire and dig in the ashes, thus the name Askeladden. (Aske = Ashes) However, he is…
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”Once upon a time, there were three princesses who were never allowed to go outside because it had been foretold that if they went out before the youngest turned 15, the troll would come get them …”. This is how the fairy tale about the three beautiful princesses who were…
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This is a real Cinderella tale about the girl Mille who dreams of becoming a rock star, and her good friend Topper the rock’n’roll fairy, who comes to her rescue in the struggle against the evil family members. A musical in a GREASE-like environment, loaded with young love, rock music…
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Disney took away the ashes from Cinderella’s cheek and made the fairytale romantic and pink. In the brothers Grimm and Astrid Nielsen’s fairytale Cinderella’s way to the prince and half the kingdom is far more evil. This is the story about the young girl, who has to fight for love…
Read moreASKING STRANGERS THE MEANING OF LIFE
In the opening scene of this comedy, a writer meets the ghost of Franz Kafka, which sets off an existential chain of events forcing the cast to confront the meaning of life. Through a series of hilarious random encounters, the play questions whether we can understand our existence or is…
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This is the incredible story of Antonio. Suffering from a very serious disease Antonio is unable to recognise people’s faces – even the faces of his nearest and dearest. One day, after an operation which seems to have healed his body, but certainly not his soul, he takes shelter from…
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4 F / 15 M / Choir 24 sets This is yet another English hit musical by the same people who wrote Phantom of The Opera and it has achieved great success, for several seasons in London’s West End. The action takes place in France during the years following the…
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With her dramatization of the Brothers Grimm’s CINDERELLA Heleen Verburg manages to move the story to an everyday context without spoiling the fairytale. The songs in the play makes this theatrical version a small musical.
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An absurd commentary on the whole question of terrorism and an exhaustive study of politics and wallpaper: A pensioner is going to have his council flat repapered and for this job he has hired two self-employed workmen of a humanistic disposition. However the elder of the two men turns out…
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Set in an empty theatre in Nazi Germany in 1936, Vivian Nielsen explores Asta Nielsen, the world’s first silent movie star. Asta and her sister Johanne are escaping Hitler’s Berlin. Johanne is dying and Asta is fighting to keep her alive. Through Johanne, we experience the extraordinary destiny of her…
Read moreAstrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren – Famous Swedish writer of children’s books, who renewed children’s literature. Astrid Lindgren’s best-known characters are independent, energetic, and unconventional, such as the untidy Pippi Longstocking, the noisy children of Troublemaker street, and Emil, the master of mischief. Appealing to the little anarchist living inside every small child,…
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Astrid Trotzig, Swedish author and playwright born 1970, had her debut in 1996 with the sensational autobiographical work ‘Blod är tjockare än vatten’. In 2001 she came out with the novel ‘Ibland undrar jag om jag minns rätt’, which together with ‘Främmande i detta land’ (2003) loosely form a trilogy.…
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Ata is small and brave, but not sure whether she wants to be a boy or a girl. Carrying nothing else than her bearskin she sets out on a journey from childhood to adulthood. The play is inspired by the mythological figure Atlanta and the legendary young runner Lilly Axster.…
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Athol Fugard (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi. He is an adjunct professor of playwriting,…
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By combining myth and fairytale, ATLANTIS the musical conveys the story about a society on the pinnacle of power – about a nation of people who have forgotten where they come from – and a world where deceit and lust for power dominates all the good qualities of man. Jabbadoor…
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Lanoye builds this story about war victims on the Trojan War. Contains elements from Aeschylus’ and Euripides’ tragedies, but also speeches about the Iraqi war held by George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld are included. The abuse of absolute power is personified by Agamemnon. His war rhetoric leaves no space for…
Read moreATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE
This is an unconventional play. The play introduces Anne who is described in 17 different ways throughout the play: Like an advertisement; a car that has it all; a media flip; a porn show; a terrorist; a suicide candidate; a nice and polite girl who rebels and uses an awful…
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With AU BORD, the French writer Claudine Galea investigates the conditions between victim and executioner and looks at the American soldier Lynndie England, who became world famous in the torture scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison. The text investigates who Lynndie is, how she could use torture and what it…
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After uncle’s funeral the father announces to his son and wife that he has news, bad and bad. The first one, he will leave his wife, the second that his son is actually adopted. In comes a distant cousin with his wife, to whom said father says he has some…
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Ferdinand Vanek is a playwright and on the blacklist. Instead of the pen, he lifts heavy beer barrels at a brewery. One day he obtains an audience of the master brewer and is offered a job as chairman. But what are the advantages and what are the circumstances? And who…
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The author of a musical tries, with the help of a singer, to arouse the impresario’s interest in his work. They struggle desperately to inform the impresario of their colossal ambitious ideas – unfortunately without luck.
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The story takes place at a 5-star wellness hotel. Dieter is a successful washing powder manufacturer and self-made-man who wants to give his mistress, Mary, a very special gift that requires little persuasion. The doctor and the private hospital owner, Lothar, and his right hand, Emilie, want something from Dieter…
Read moreAUFHALTSAME AUFSTIEG DES ARTURO UI, DER
Brecht wrote DER AUFHALTSAME AUFSTIEG DES ARTURO UI within three weeks during exile in Finland in 1941. The play is set in Chicago. In this comic parable Hitler is presented in the figure of Arturo Ui, a small time gangster who tries to take over Chicago’s green groceries trade. Arturo’s…
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In the middle of Germany, in the city of Mustacheberg, live Small Mouth, Large Mouth and Tongue Shock. Small Mouth and Large Mouth get married, but after the wedding Big Mouth shows out to be a tyrant. With the help of Toungue Shock Small Mouth is liberated from Large Mouth.
Read moreAUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
One of the most dramatic and critically acclaimed plays on Broadway in 2007, and a vital portrait of the good and worst sides of a dysfunctional American family. When the Weston’s patriarch passes away on a warm summer night, the family gathers at the family home in Oklahoma, where hidden…
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A dynamic intern messes up the routines at the National Cultural Archives, and an older colleague finds herself unimportant. The competition between these two women evolves into the absurd until the initial positions are reversed. An entertaining and complex tragicomedy about gender roles, working life, loneliness, conflicts between generations and…
Read moreAUNT DAN AND LEMON
Lemon, a reclusive young woman with an unspecified chronic illness, sits in her apartment reading books about Nazism and reliving her life story. But as she tells the audience, that life story consists mostly of stories she herself was told in childhood by “Aunt Dan,” a family friend. In flashback…
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The story of Mame Dennis, a well-to-do woman who lives in New York at the peak of the 1920s. She become the guardian of her nephew, Patrick. The ten-year-old needs his aunt, and this is something new for Mame — to be needed. It changes her life and brings her…
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How would it be, if a woman, let’s say a 60-year-old woman, who calls herself Edith Bauklamm, all of a suddan becomes an audience to her own life, which she hasn’t been able to live? Her life becomes a game and the helper is called Alfred, who shows up in…
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The colored Danish footballer Darcy is to bring a football club up from the depths and contribute to them start winning again. But in the city there is a group are working on a foreigners-free zone. The conflict with Darcy is inevitable. In the group are Ado, Pampel, Udo and…
Read moreAUSNAHME UND DIE REGEL, DIE
A ruthless entrepreneur drives his guide and a coolie across the desert with wares in an effort to beat the competition. When the coolie is murdered, there is a semblance of justice in the tribunal scene when the judge rules in favour of the entrepreneur in defiance of evidence to…
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