AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIA is inspired by a true story. The play is about the pregnant teacher Coco, who’s pregnant and is forced to deliver her child behind bars, since the father of the child is Coco’s 13-year-old student, Billy. Coco asks Billy’s best friend Karl to stay after class in order to…
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Eloi, a young, sexually repressed postal worker, resides in New Orleans with his mother, a practical woman who runs a boarding house. Though he struggles for rationality, Eloi sees the city as an intolerable hotbed of depravity – and he longs for the purification of fire.
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An elderly married couple named Manny and Ceil live a Spartan existence in a cabin in the woods, even though they are financially well-off due to Manny’s canny stock market investments. For over a half century, Ceil has taken care of Manny, indulging his quirks and turning the bucolic cabin…
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The play that raises the question if two individuals eventually can become one. If so, what happens when one party dies? Does the other party die as well? Who can claim that love doesn’t last forever? André and Madeleine has been together for more than 50 years and their daughters,…
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Wendell goes to Italy to pick up his father’s body after an automobile accident. He soon finds that his self-righteous elderly father had actually been having an affair with a woman for the past ten years. They were known as the model romantic couple at the hotel. The conservative Wendell…
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This sparkling Tony Award-winning musical is about Princeton, a lively young man who recently graduated from the university and is coming to New York with big dreams and few cash. He quickly discovers that the only district he can afford to live in is Avenue Q – even though the…
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The play is set in the post-World War 1 period. A priest, suffering from amnesia, turns out to have a double, a ruthless gangster, who kidnaps him in order to have an alibi for his own committed crimes. The two destinies are wrapped up in each other and it becomes…
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Axel Hellstenius (born 1960) is one of Norway’s most prominent writers, whose works span from literary fiction, stage plays as well as film and television titles. Since his debut in 1984 he has worked mainly for the big screen and for television. In 1999 he wrote the libretto for the…
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A warm, black comedy about love, loss, courage, art and war. The two characters, Carmela and Paulino, are a vaudeville comedy duo, who have accidentally wandered across military lines and have fallen into the hands of Franco’s fascists troops during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). They’re forced to put on…
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A man stands by the sea side throwing his written papers into the water as if he wanted to wind up part of his life. A woman aims a gun at him as if she were threatened by him. The chance meeting develops into a passionate exchange in a film-noirish…
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Ayub Khan-Din (b. 1961) is a British playwright and actor, born in Salford, Lancashire, England. His father is British Pakistani and his mother is white British. As an actor, Khan-Din is best-known for the role of Sammy in Hanif Kureishi’s “Sammy and Rosie Get Laid” (1987). He is also an…
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AZ INTERJ (HIS MASTER’S VOICE) is István Eörsis dramatic confrontation with his mentor, Georg Lukács, and his own dreams and misunderstandings. An absurd documentary play full of humour, irony, tenderness but also sharpness and contrasts, when it comes to the big questions in life.
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In the kindergarten, The Apple, everyone is embraced by the nursery leader, Ruth, she arranges gatherings and cosiness. However, after an ‘Apple-parents-party’ goes a little out of hand, the parents start to doubt Ruth’s intentions and education. Slowly The Apple starts to rot and the situation becomes more and more…
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The mythical, cult author B. Traven; is the pivotal point of 5 interacting stories from the 20th century all originating in a conflict of some kind. Frédéric Sonntag takes us on a fast-paced journey from World War I to Mexico in the 1970’s and from the Parisian BZ movement and…
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Written while he was a university student, BAAL was Bertolt Brecht’s first full-length play and remains one of his most audacious and shocking. The story traces the decline of a drunken and dissolute poet who rejects the conventions and trappings of polite society. Baal roams the countryside, womanizing and brawling.…
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In Bambiland, Jelinek already addressed issues of the war against Iraq. Babel goes on to question its premises and after-effects and circles around the links between violence, sexuality and religion in three monologues. It is a journey into the abysses of humankind and into its collective subconscious, which never ceases…
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BABEL is a dark comedy set in the near future. Two couples are having trouble getting pregnant and the lengths they go to in order to have a baby raises the specter of eugenics, explores the societal value of a baby, and asks us what we are willing to risk…
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BABY follows a group of young people on the edge of society: Sonja, Nova, Leni, Eddy, Susi, Ivan, Ric, the married couple, Cadett and Marc and the transvestite Daisy. In a episodical scenes, the characters are presented in a line of fatal situations: murder, suicide and desertion … A hard-hitting…
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A couple of film stars visit their author and expose him to sophistic sarcasm during their merciless 2 hours of conversation. This makes the audience tremble with laughter and shiver because of the play’s hypocritically half world of cynical human view.
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Two parents, Helen and John, who are completely unprepared for parenthood, bring home their newborn baby. To their rescue comes Nanny – who enters their apartment as if by magic. John and Nanny have an affair and Helen takes the baby and leaves. Years later, the baby – now a…
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A mouse caught in a mouse trap sets three flatmates discussing the meaning of life, death, their yuppie lifestyle as well as the brutal fact about their own place in the food-chain.
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Rock fans Janis and Razz are waiting anxiously for a glimpse of their idol, Stax Jackson, although Razz’s brother is more interested in his skateboard. Stax is really gorgeous, or is he? And who is Brian Cronk? Cannon-the-roadie reveals some very interesting information. This comedy focuses warmly on the generation…
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A part of STOP, YOU’RE KILLING ME, three one-act plays by James Leo Herlihy. Bad Bad Jo-Jo is the funniest and the most grotesque of the plays. A successful film writer who gives his audiences what they want-murder and camp – is visited by couple of fans. In the course…
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A pair of brilliantly satirical plays that offer a biting and hilarious study of two very singular sanitariums, one where bad habits are suppressed, the other where they are indulged.
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The scene is a small southern town where Colonel and Christine Penmark live with their daughter, Rhoda. Little Rhoda Penmark is the evil queen of the story. On the surface she is sweet, charming, full of old-fashioned graces, loved by her parents, admired by all her elders. But Rhoda’s mother…
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Somewhere in a thinly habited rural area Baddi´s garage is still operating although the customers are getting fewer and fewer as the years pass. Baddi, a widower, lives there with his daughter and son and Raggi, an apprentice, who is not the cleverest one but has a way with cars.…
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The Big Bad Wolf’s in trouble – he’s been ripped out of his story and thrown in jail for being too good at being bad. Along with fellow offenders Rumpelstiltskin, The Ugly Sisters and Captain Hook, the Big Bad Wolf is determined to find out who’s decided to change the…
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BEHIND THE FENCE plays out on a residential street – a place where prejudice rules from behind the hedges. The unspoken suspicion about this and that grows and eventually becomes reality. The chatter centres around the young couple moving in; it advertises the car, people prefer; it investigates the house…
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This is a short monologue of the life of the Baglady and her ring. Written in 1985 and produced at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin the same year.
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In his first work written directly for the stage, the author of THE KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN created a hilarious and shocking clash of desire and reality. Into the home of a bourgeois family come two strangers on their way to a masquerade ball. The masters of the house…
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An American two-hander that takes place in a California trailorpark, where an umemployed and drunken female bartender lives in a trashed trailor. She believes to be in possession of a real Pollock and calls for a sophicated male art expert from New York to estimate the painting. Two worlds collide.…
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An adaptation of William Butler’s novel A DANISH GAMBIT relating the struggle of a priest trying to convince a man in a death cell that he should live.
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In this play the meaning or perhaps the tendency is a criticism of society similar to the theatre of Bertolt Brecht. A word often reappearing is surplus value, meaning the bottom line of the work done. The workers do not get anything in return. Instead it all ends up in…
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Genet’s horrifying vision has aroused violent controversy; the play has been called “a theatrical experience as startling as anything since Ibsen’s revelation about syphilis”. The setting is a brothel in the midst of a revolution that has wiped out all the real holders of power except the Chief of Police,…
Read moreBALKAN NON E MRTOV (BALKAN IST NICHT TOT)
BALKAN IS NOT DEAD describes the religious and cultural clashes in Southern Europe after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the inter-war period. Osman Bay, a well-to-do Turkish landowner falls in love with the woman, whose man he has cold-bloodedly murdered, which sends him out on an emotional journey.…
Read moreBALLAD OF LOIS RYAN, THE
2 Acts / 1M, 2F and musician(s) Lois is a textile worker in a small country town. Life for Lois revolves around the factory, the supermarket and home. The play is about Lois’ struggle to free herself from the traps that bind working mothers. Lois wins her struggle but not…
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DE BALLADE VAN GARUMA (The ballad of Garuma) is a piece for musical theatre that focuses on the rise and fall of a popular hero. The script is written in the form of a story within a story, with Amaranta as the narrator. She also plays her own role as…
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BALLE, MALLE, HUPE UND ARTUR follows Artur and his friends’ adventures.
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This deeply moving play is a poignant examination of the resistance of ex-ballerina, Fdith, to be parted from her autistic daughter, Malin against strong opposition from family and friends. Fdith has built a language of imagery and ballet-related movement which enables Malin and herself to communicate. Now circumstances force her…
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Show for two female performers about man’s wish to fly: From the Myth of Icarus and Daedalus, the Montgolfier Brothers (the inventors of the hot air balloon,) and the world after the Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. A critically acclaimed play about the power of possibility. The text calls…
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This is a messenger’s report on the media’s coverage of war. Elfriede Jelinek reflects not only on the actual events of the Iraq war, her own attitude to these and television reports, she also reflects on the foundation of Western consciousness. “Literature or literary transformation using the world as a…
Read moreBANALITY OF LOVE, THE
The past knocks at her door, a young man forces his way inside and demands answers to his questions. Why did she use her name to clear of the old Nazi professor? The memories hunt her, she discovers herself as the young Jew and smart student, who, with a beating…
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The play deals with the living conditions of two children that sell bananas in South Africa.
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With this play Peter Ustinov traces a great military family through three generations in reverse order.
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The play tells the story about the effects of a murder in the North East in the community.
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The Botterills are a fertile family. Mum, elder daughter and younger daughter Aurora are all imminently expecting. Aurora announces that her lot is quins. When a newspaper and the TV take her up, bringing in thousands of pounds, dismay turns to rapture. But Aurora must be married. The father is…
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Somewhere in the Middle East, an English variety artist, unwillingly, gets dragged into a plot, to spirit the young King out of his country before the revolutionaries get him. Fast, furious and hilarious.
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BARE is an extraordinary pop-rock musical that tells a seariing, prescient and poverful sexual coming of age story. A Group of high school seniors at a boarding school struggle to come to terms with who they are, and who the world thinks they should be. They seek answers from their…
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After a six-day honeymoon a spanking new lawyer, who has just won his first case (6 cents in damages), and his young bride, who is as pretty and addled as they come, move into the new, high-rent apartment that she has chosen for them. But the difficulty is, in order…
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BARMAIDS tells the story of Nancy and Val who know how to run a pub. But when the Arms is bought by a syndicate, accountants start hatching new schemes. A play full of colourful stories and worrying rumours evoking the loyalty between barmaid and drinker. Published by Currency Press 1991…
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BARNE’S PEOPLE are eight monologues written for some of the great stars of the English stage.
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The main character in this musical is America’s great showman ‘Prince Hambug’ alias P. T. Barnum. Between 1835 and 1880 he travelled every route in America with his itinerant ‘Sensation Show’ purely based on swindle and trickery as his motto was ‘The last fool is yet to be born’. So…
Read moreBARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET, THE
The scene is Elizabeth Barrett’s room. Here she lives with her father, sisters and brothers. Never too healthy, she has been kept prisoner by her domineering father, who rules his family with unbelievable severity. Her brothers and sisters are reconciled to their father’s tyranny, but Elizabeth has in her a…
Read moreBarrie Keeffe
After a brief career as an actor and journalist Barrie Keeffe (b. 1945) turned to full-time writing and directing in the theatre in 1975. His theatre plays include Only a Game, Gotcha, Abide with Me, My Girl, Bastard Angel, Sus, Frozen Assets, A Mad World My Masters, She’s so Modern,…
Read moreBarry Collins
Barry Collins was born in 1941 in Halifax, West Yorkshire – where he still lives. For seven years he worked as a journalist before turning playwright in 1971. The one man play, Judgement, was first presented experimentally at the Theatre Royal, Bristol by Peter O’Toole in 1974. Its world premiere…
Read moreBarry Harman
Barry Michael Harman (b. 14 March 1952; Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer and producer for television, and a Tony nominated book writer and lyricist for the Broadway theater. He wrote and directed the Broadway musical Romance/Romance, which starred Scott Bakula and Alison Fraser, and which received five Tony…
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1942: “Richard III”, the Broadway triumph of 1920, is getting a revival and rehearsals are in full swing. The great American actor John Barrymore plays the leading role and is refreshing not only his lines but also episodes from his life and career. The supporting role, stage manager Frank, is…
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“Bartending is a classic, noble profession. You have to be everyone in one day to all strangers; you have to make everyone feel at home, welcoming and attentive, and knowledgeable and smart and fast.” Dette er bartenderens tunge lod; at lytte til stamgæsternes evige sorger og glæder – vi kender…
Read moreBASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY
Comedic genius Ken Ludwig (LEND ME A TENOR) transforms Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES into a murderously funny adventure. Sherlock Holmes is on the case. The male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatched one by one. To find their ingenious killer, Holmes and Watson must…
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Krister Classon, who is the other half of the Swedish comedy team Stefan & Krister, had great success with this adaptation of Rickard Fuch’s book ”Du ser inte så gammal ut! – Visst är det roligt att åren går…” The monologue is about a man who suffers from age-phobia, and…
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As the curtain opens, in semidarkness, amid shouted directions, noisy stumblings and obvious confusion, a family spills out of the stairway, dropping luggage and household possessions all over the room, and collapsing in relief, fleeing an unbearable Noise. Zénobie is the only one to acknowledge the Noise, which had chased…
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A math professor turns from Jekyll to Hyde while watching her son compete in a little league playoff game.
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A great drama in Southern States environment with all the typical symbolic characters and action patterns of Williams. The story could be home town for the sensational press´ articles about crimes of passion. The play is about Val, the lonely hunter and hunted male wild beast that suddenly enters a…
Read moreBAY AT NICE, THE
The elderly yet energetic Valentina Nrovka is summoned by the Hermitage Art Museum in Leningrad to confirm the authenticity of a painting – The Bay of Nice – attributed to the famous artist (and her old art teacher) Matisse. Her nervous daughter Sophia Yepileva accompanies her to the museum, and…
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A box filled with gold and a fratricide has placed a curse over Avram Tanourkov’s family and through three generations the Tanourkov clan have not found peace. Boyan Papazov lets his characters tell their stories with a linguistic and dramatic brilliance. Stories of blood and revenge, of religion and superstition,…
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They sit there every day. On the bench. Chain-smoking losers, anonymous faces we do not wish to know more about. Throughout his entire life, Kaj has failed everyone and everything, running away from any kind of responsibility. After 19 years of being out of contact with his daughter Liv, she…
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The drama treats the actual problem – children from broken homes – in a sympathetic and reliable way. The play shows the harm a broken home can get and how it can influence an imaginative and sensitive 15-year old girl, who without being bad by nature can be persuaded into…
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The story presented in this exhilarating and praised musical takes place in America in the 1950ies, but is equated with the reality shows of today, in which hopeful people attempt to achieve their 15 minutes of fame. The story about the American rock ‘n’ roll championship, hosted by the slick…
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Examining the nature of seduction and attraction the play brings into explosive confrontation two legends of America’s recent past: the sultry, platinum blonde movie star, Jean Harlow; and the baby faced, quick-tempered outlaw, Billy The Kid. Drawn to each other, but constrained from yielding by their towering egos, the two…
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A play about a young Armenian couple in the United States after Turkey’s Armenian genocide during World War1. Has been produced at major theaters across the United States and in Toronto, London, Buenos Aires and Schweiz.
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