Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan was born in Dublin in 1923. Behan left school at fourteen but spent two two years in Borstal and a further four (1942-46) in prison for political activities. Out of these experiences came his autobiography, Borstal Boy (1958), and his first stage play, The Quare Fellow (1954). His…
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Brendan Cowell (born 16 August 1976) is an australian actor, screenwriter and director. Cowell was born in Bronulla, Sydney, New South Wales. He was stumbled upon acting by accident while waiting for his sister to come out of a rehearsal, he was then cast in a commercial at age 8.…
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BRENDAN MILBURN (Co-Author – Book, Music and Lyrics) graduated from Pomona College and NYU’s MFA program in Musical Theatre Writing. He does a lot of arranging for GrooveLily, and he’s an accomplished record producer as well. Brendan’s music and lyrics are featured in a growing number of off/on- Broadway shows,…
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The Rebel movement in Fuente Ovejuna assembles in darkness. They wish to rebel against the local commandant who has arrogated the power of the village to himself after a successful war against the neighboring village. One of the girls in the village, Laurentia, just got married without the permission of…
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BRENT LORD (Music) wrote the score for the 2007 NYMF dance commission, PLATFORMS. Film: composed and produced the scores to BLIND SIDE (dir. John Daschbach, Digidance Film Festival) and WAKING DREAMS (starring Ben Shenkman). TV: original music for VH1 Rock Docs documentary LAST DAYS OF LEFT EYE (VH1), Latino Beginnings…
Read moreBrian Clark
Brian Clark (b. 1932) is a British playwright and television writer, best known for his play ‘’Whose Life Is It Anyway?”, which he later adapted into a screenplay. Clark was born in Bristol, United Kingdom, the son of a blacksmith. He was educated at the Central School of Speech and…
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Brian Friel (b. 1929) is an Irish dramatist, theatre director and author. Friel began writing short stories for The New Yorker in 1959 and subsequently published two well-received collections: The Saucer of Larks (1962) and The Gold in the Sea (1966). He has written several plays including: “Philadelphia Here I…
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Brian Francis Way (September 12, 1923 – February 23, 2006), established Theatre Centre in London, England, in 1953. The company originated the modern concept of theatre for children in an educational context. Brian Way was born in Sussex, England, in 1923. He was the prime mover in a group of…
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Brian Yorkey is an American playwright, lyricist and theatre director. He shared the 2009 Tony Award for Best Original Score with composer Tom Kitt and was nominated the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Next to Normal. A native of Issaquah, Washington, Yorkey graduated from Columbia University,…
Read moreBRIDESHEAD REVISITED
A loyal British dramatization of Evelyn Waugh’s undying novel from 1945. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED is a touching story about forbidden love, lost innocence and the fall of the aristocrats in England at the time just before World War 2. The young Oxford student Charles Ryder becomes involved in the aristocratic family…
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John Aubrey (1626-97) has come to be recognised as England’s first serious biographer. Patrick Garland’s adaptation of Aubrey’s writings represents a day in the latter part of Aubrey’s life. ‘It is as if one is paying a visit to the house of an old man, who makes up for the…
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Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, two young American tourists, have lost their way while trekking in the Scottish Highlands. Then suddenly the village Brigadoon arise before them from the fog, as a godsend. Strangely, the inhabitants are all dressed in clothes from the 18th century and among them, Tommy meets…
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BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS is part one of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy (Second Chapter is Biloxi Blues and Third Chapter is Broadway Bound): a portrait of the writer as a Brooklyn teenager in 1937 living with his family in crowded, lower-middle-class circumstances. Eugene (the young Neil Simon) is the narrator and…
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Brighton Beach Scumbags is a comic diatribe about the disintegration of the British Empire. A sketch of four slovenly, careless, small-minded and bigoted Cockney characters who barely move out of their beach chairs.
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The setting is a remote cabin in the wilds of Alaska, and while a blizzard rages outside Henry lies sleeping under a heap of blankets. Suddenly he is awakened by the insistent knocking of an unexpected visitor – who turns out to be Rosannah, a distraught young woman who has…
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The play is set aboard a fishing boat, where the extreme proximity of the characters to one another is weighing them down. The joy, sadness, dreams and songs of the ship’s crew mix together with the bad weather at sea and the rootlessness of existence in this bittersweet human comedy.…
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Picking up where Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues ended. This is part three of Neil Simon’s acclaimed autobiographical trilogy and finds Eugene and his older brother Stanley trying to break into the world of professional comedy writing while coping with the break-up of their family. Their efforts to come…
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Three prisoners abuse their fourth cell mate. The victim, a German professor inHöderlin, is suspected of murdering his wife. He has derided his fellow prisoners for their lack of spirit, but slowly his pride starts cracking as they humiliate him …
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This is the story about the two brothers Jonathan and Karl (Tvebak) and their mutual love, fears and dreams. In the beginning Karl is ill and dying, so the two brothers promise each other to meet in Nangiyala, the fairytale land with the two valleys where Tvebak is both strong…
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THE BROTHERS LIONHEART Music by Joachim Holbek Libretto by Peter Asmussen based on Astrid Lindgren’s novel Opera This is an opera version of one of the greatest classics of children’s literature: The poetic and profound story of the brothers Tvebak and Jonathan Lionheart. Tvebak is ten years of age, ill…
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2007 is the year of Astrid Lindgren. A century has passed since her birth and soon stages will be overflowing with tributes to the great Swedish author. The Göteborgsoperan is early with their version of THE BROTHERS LIONHEART – nearly a Swedish “Lord of the Rings” about two brothers’ experiences…
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The three brothers Lasse, Kalle and Nisse Österman live at a farm. They are thriving at the farm and are privileged enough to enjoy their favourite hobby which is fishing. However, this does not please their sister Helena. She and her husband Jan have six children and a mortgage on…
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A play about a seemingly happy woman, who steers into a crisis. Apparently, her crisis stem from external influences, such as guilt over all the injustice and imbalance in the world. However, eventually it slowly appears to the audience that it is more likely that the real reason for her…
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The sequel to SNÅLVATTEN OCH JÄKELSKAP. A year has passed since Matilda arranged a job in the city for her son Lennart and succeeded in getting her husband Nils-Erik to look after the farm. Everything is fine except for one thing: Matilda wants grandchildren. Lennart and the neighbor’s daughter Inga…
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When 18-year-old Luke discovers the diary of his recently-deceased brother Marius, he and his single mother are forced to relive painful memories of Marius’s illness and avoidable death. In discovering hidden truths revealed about Marius, Luke must come to terms with truths of his own. Based on the novel by…
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“Brothers Karamazov” is the final and physically the longest novel by Dostojevskij. It is customarily considered as his chief work and by many men of letters as the best novel in the history of literature. The American, David Fischelson, has accomplished an outstandingly brilliant dramatization of the novel by leaving…
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Richard Crane has adapted several classics for the stage, and his competent dramatisation of Dostojevskij’s masterpiece is simply exceptional. It is a splendid reproduction of the original’s black, moral but simultaneously cheerful story about a group of brothers and how they plan revenge against the father who neither gave them…
Read moreBruce Gooch
During 1976 Bruce Gooch took an acting course at the University of Michigan and has since taken part in productions on Broadway and off-Broadway. At the same time he teaches and directs at The Delaware Academy in New York.. Apart from DIRT he has written a number of well-produced plays,…
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An unsentimental, rough and humorous encounter with life after terror. “Every night on the news there’s literally always some sort of massively catastrophic end-of-the-world shiz going down: genocide, earthquake, terrorism, school shooting B- it’s endless, you know? And I always wonder how would I cope, if that happened to me?”…
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A rollicking expedition into the dangerously funny and decidedly off-beat terrain of the U.S. male at his madcap best!
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This parody of low-budget 30s detective movies typifies British heroism. Teutonic villain Otto von Brunno and his evil mistress crash their plane in the English countryside and kidnap Professor Fenton who has discovered a formula for making synthetic diamonds. Bullshot, Crummond is called to rescue. Otto paralyzes Crummond with a…
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This is a raw confrontation with the misfit and at the same time a musical and lyrical homage to the outsiders and those who move at borders. The stage is set at a freaky hotel somewhere in the ramified night of the city. It could be in any city, the…
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The couples Simone Signoret / Yves Montand and Marilyn Monroe / Arthur Miller live side by side in bungalows at the famous Beverly Hills Hotel. Monroe and Montand are filming her last film “Let’s Make Love” and an open affair between them is developing. The action alternates between high-tension scenes…
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A comedy written by the author of “Kära Ruth” and “Sunday in New York”. The comedy is about a kind-hearted call-girl who provides her working experience in order to save a young marriage and bring together an old lonely man with his child and grandchild.
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In THE POWDER KEG Dukovski paints a picture of the contemporary Balkan through a cynical and tragic-comic multiplot, where desperation, violence and despair keeps the characters together. The Powder keg is a hyper-realistic allegory of a group of stereotypes, who are desperately looking for hope and love in a post-war…
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The play is based on the difference between the top dog and the underdog. This is illustrated between the assessor and Mr. Schulze. We witness the humiliation of Schulze in the daily life at the office. Our impression is strengthened by the fact that completely “normal” lines are said –…
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A wealthy doctor hosts a party where the guests chit chat about the future of the Welfare State. Then at breakfast the next morning, while the doctor and his wife discuss practicalities in connection with their divorce, the maid announces that their son has committed suicide. And so this play…
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A powerful, electrifying play which probes deeply and with great dramatic and comic effect into the lives of its characters; Anna, a young dancer who is devastated by the sudden death of her gay flatmate and collaborator Robby; her wealthy but shallow boyfriend Burton; and her other flatmate Larry, a…
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The year is 1936. In Soviet, Stalin is doing his Moscow trials which are to crush any opposition in the state apparatus. Simultaneously, the revolutionary hero Kotov, his young wife Maroussia and their 6-year-old daughter Nadia enjoy a summer’s day with the family in the country. A stranger makes his…
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In “The Burrow” (IDI Contest Prize 1990; Maschera Prize with golden laurel for the five actresses and a gold medal for stage direction in 1993; broadcast on Italian radio (RAI 3) in 1995; presented at the Grec festival in Barcelona in 1997; a new production in Italy (Parma) in 2000;…
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American composer. He began his career playing piano with jazz bands in the 1940s and then as a pianist and arranger for nightclub acts, notably with Marlene Dietrich in the 1950s. With the lyricist Hal David, Bacharach produced a number of popular songs from the late 1950s to the early…
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The two friends, Berta and Silvia, live together in a fraternity. Berta is pregnant with her boyfriend, Manel, who she doesn’t trust, wherefore the girls decide to drug him with the truth serum burundanga. The serum makes him confess his infidelity and furthermore let them in on his secret membership…
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This is a warm and sensible little overnight scrap between a couple of stranded, stubborn, appealing people. A bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner in the middle of a howling snowstorm. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travellers are going to…
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God has given Erika an assignment: She has to go on a pilgrimage – the day after she must be in Poland at The Black Madonna. She goes by bus, but the bus has a completely different destination. Erika seeks the help of the others, but they all behave extremely…
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This is a psychological thriller about revenge centres on the interlocking triangular relationship between Dee, a successful television playwright; Hallet, a detective-superintendent; and Stone, a humourless, prissy man. Dee arrives at Stone’s flat, having accepted an invitation to discuss a script by Stone’s wife. She is rather surprised when Hallet,…
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This hilarious play centres on a voluble cleaning woman who keeps telling the cops how to mind their business and who steps forward with the right evidence in every pinch. She lives in the basement of the office building she cleans and one night finds a body. By the time…
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“But for whom Charlie” is a rueful comedy about good, bad and bed manners. The play’s hero, Seymour Rosenthal is busy soul-rinsing the filthy millions he inherited from his philistine movie-magnate father. Seymour has established a foundation to give grants to needy and worthy writers. Painfully diffident, Seymour has all…
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When you’re a young bachelor in your own apartment for the first time, even if it’s a cramped cold-water flat, you know what exhilaration is. If a pretty actress moves into the next apartment, you’ve got an even better beginning. Don has it better yet: the actress has proposed friendship…
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A strong play written in a suggestive form and with a ragged undertone. The story takes place in an American prison cell in which the young Lily – a prisoner of her own mind – is locked up for murdering her mother. The play examines different stages in the young…
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It’s 1990 and Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, is still there. He has his own TV show but the ratings are plummeting. When the show is axed his communication with Earth is severed and he is left utterly alone. How will he cope? Will he ever get…
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3 F / 8 M / Choir Musical in 2 acts 1 Set This musical is the fruition of collaboration between two of England’s leading dramatists: Alan Ayckbourn who is praised for his dashing and often teasing comedies and Andrew Lloyd Webber who is certainly a supreme musical composer. Their…
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This play by the Irish playwright Marina Carr, is both a comic tragedy about life and a tragic comedy about death. The main character is Hester Swane, who is 40 years old and has got gypsy blood in her. As a child she grew up with her mother in a…
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BY THE NUMBERS is a fun, inventive and diverse collection of eight short plays inspired by mathematical theorems. • POINT OF INTERSECTION by James Hindman. (1M, 1W): A watchmaker and a romantic find common ground, but can Sidney and Sydney synchronize their hearts? • HEDY LAMARR MAKES A MOVIE by Arlene Hutton. (2M, 2W):…
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Music by Charles Strouse, dialogue by Michael Stewart and lyrics by Lee Adams. This is the first hit-musical about the Rock & Roll hysteria among teenagers. It is an authentic story of the teenager-idol Conrad Birdie and of the excitement he creates in an ordinary American city, Sweet Appletown, during…
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An author’s struggle with her story. It is her sincere hope in her writing to be able to create a world without evil. But is it at all possible to use a good story to make the world a better place? A tragic accident some years ago in China is…
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Set during the First World War in Northern Queensland, it is a story of a half kanaka islander girl, Roma and a half caste Aboriginal boy, Eddie who are itinerant canecutters. Before going off to war Eddie gets Roma a job in the house of the plantation owner, Mr Harris.…
Read moreC. E. Webber
Cecil Webber was a British television writer and playwright. He is best remembered for his contribution to the creation of the famous science-fiction series DOCTOR WHO while working as a staff writer for the BBC in the early 1960s. His published stage plays included BE GOOD, SWEET MAID (1957), OUT…
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Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly called C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as “Jack”, was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist born in Belfast, Ireland. He held academic positions at both Oxford University…
Read moreC’EST NOËL TANT PIS (IT’S CHRISTMAS SO DEAL WITH IT)
A good old-fashioned Christmas Eve where everything is like it’s always been: the family gets together and the fighting begins, as usual. The Christmas spirit increases when grandma suddenly is missing. Eventually she is found lying (and dying) underneath the dinner table and the festivities move to the hospital where…
Read moreC’EST PAS FACILE D’ÊTRE HEUREUX QUAND ON VA MAL
Nora and Jonathan have been a couple for far too long. And it sucks. As for Maxime, he’s been having orgies in the hope of meeting the man of his life. And that’s rubbish too. Timothée thinks he’s happy, but his life sucks. Jeanne’s life sucks too, but at least…
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In Cabaret, a dingy nightclub in Berlin becomes a metaphor for the decadent pre-Hitler years in Germany; alas, a world in despair. When entering the Kit Kat Club, every one is bid Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome by the bisexual host and the main show is performed by the young British and…
Read moreCADAVERI SI SPEDISCONO E LE DONNE SI SPOGLIANO, I
It is important to emphasise that the play is not based on a particular ideological position, but that the disrespectful contact with bodies is bound to shock people. And that is exactly one of the most powerful effects of the farce, focusing on one of the taboos left in our…
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Highly charged and savage satire on the corruptions that can eat away at families in the 1990s. A young man leaves a mental institution and goes home to his family. They aren’t there immediately, but when they do get together he finds the only way he can get their attention…
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3 F / 7 M / Chorus of 2 F / 10 M / Extras The book is written by Harvey Fierstein and based on the play by Jean Poiret. The music and Lyrics is written by Jerry Herman. This Tony Award winning play adds new dimensions to the boulevard…
Read moreCALEDONIA DREAMING (AN EDINBURGH FANTASY)
It’s a summer night in Edinburgh on the eve of devolution and Sean Connery is reported to be coming to stay at the Caledonian Hotel. Six Edinburgh residents have different reasons to try and find him. Darren, an unemployed boy from Oxgangs dreams of being Connery’s PA and escaping from…
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Tragedy strikes when Annie’s husband John is diagnosed with cancer, and passes away shortly after. Her friend Chris and the other women of the house wife association “Women’s Institute” provide Annie with good support, until Chris comes up with another one of her crazy ideas. The women are to produce…
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