BARE
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…
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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…
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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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The story takes place in a small town in the outskirts of Oslo in the mid 1070’s where we follow the 4 main characters who are boys ages 14 and 15. The menu is set on girls and especially the Beatles who are everyone’s big idol. The boys’ dream is…
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Beatrice lives in a run down terrace in Woolloomooloo with her sister, her mum and her mother’s current boyfriend. Thirteen years old, autistic and disconnected from her dysfunctional family, Beatrice takes refuge in her mind. There, she delights in the music and videos of a bygone era: The Thin Man,…
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This is a theatrically thrilling new version of the classic myth. Rather than presenting kids with gaudy, gobsmacking spectacle, this enchanting Beauty and the Beast stimulates the mind. Laurence Boswell’s adaptation of the fairy story is at once beguiling and disconcertingly strange. . . his beautifully written script is so…
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A mother and her daughter, at the ages of 60 and 40, live in a most horrible relationship. One day the daughter meets a man and through that, we follow her attempt to release herself from the mother, in order to fulfil the potential love affair. Her endeavouring liberation is…
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Becky Shaw has no family, no friends, no education, no job and no leading role in this comedy. She does, however, have a remarkable ability to stir up the lives of the main characters when she meets them. Max, a cynical financial advisor is set up with Becky by Becky’s…
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Susan is a vicar’s wife of unspecified age, but probably in her early 40’s. She is married to a trendy, “up-and-coming” cleric by the name of Geoffrey. Their marriage is mediocre as is her life and she turns to the bottle for comfort. On her late-night meanderings into Leeds to…
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Alma is very rich, but she has reached middle age with little else. Twice married, her first and only sexual encounter has left her frigid with the emotional outlook of a spinster. Now she is seeking companionship as avoid the cold embrace og loneliness. She suggests a marriage of convenience…
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The play is set in a French village near the German border on the eve of a local festival. When an English couple, Stanley and Brenda, obtain a room for the night whilst on a motoring trip, they consider themselves lucky – but not for long. In Brenda’s absence less…
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A Father and a Daughter share a small bed. He talks frantically about his extraordinary past in furniture sales; she talks no less compulsively about anything at all, to fill the terrible silence in her head. Everything is frantic and broken and ugly because they can’t stop talking. If only…
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This is a wickedly funny play about the blithe inconsideration of the suffering. Trevor and Susannah are a couple whose marriage is heading towards the rocks – and the play depicts an endless night in which they inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest, three other couples. The play…
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John Jo Mulligan finds himself in a situation with which his pious conscience cannot cope: more or less against his will, he has spent a night with the cunning seductress Angela. Full of remorse, and dreading the ruin of his reputation, he tries to get rid of her, fearing that…
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A lonely, mousey girl – a bookkeeper – has embraced the cultural revolution by becoming a psychodrama actress. One rainy day, she ducks into a Greenwich Village doorway and the boy who offers her shelter turns out to be a perfect match. He’s a department store buyer and to spice…
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BEG YOUR PARDON is the story of Thea, who is afflicted by a great feeling of injustice especially in relation to immigration, as her friend Marwa is a victim. Thea cannot bear her own happiness and decides to emigrate, leaving her husband and son behind to travel with Chica to…
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“The Funeral” is the continuation of the award winning film and play ”The Celebration”. The story takes place in a beach hotel ten years after the tragic events portrayed in “The Celebration”. Helge is dead. His wife Else and their children Christian, Michael and Helene are being reunited for the…
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An early work about a defrocked priest rediscovering Australia after years in Africa. Ripe for re-working.
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In Being Norweigan, Sean, just out of prison, invites Lisa back to his flat for a drink. Lisa says she’s Norwegian. She feels Sean must be Norwegian too. In this dark, funny encounter two outsiders reach out to each other across the deep fjords of the heart. “In Norway we’re…
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The premise of Alan Bowne’s play BEIRUT has the potential of being intriguing and timely. In the near future, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan people are quarantined for being carriers, or fully infected, with a disease that sounds a lot like AIDS. Torch, a former street guy from…
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Belcher’s Luck is a wild tragi-comedy full of symbolism about fertility and impotence.
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Escaping the Irish famine in 1850 five young women seek passage on a ship to Australia. For many of the ‘orphan girls’ on board, the voyage offers a fresh start. But some girls find they cannot escape the memory of the lives they’ve left behind – and the closer they…
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Artie is a lonely middle-aged sacristan in a local church who falls in love with a married woman who comes to change flowers on the altar. Also in his life are a bedridden mother, whom we never see, a simple-minded altar boy called Dominic and a troubled young priest. Artie’s…
Read moreBELL FOR ADANO, A
This is the story of Major Joppolo, who is assigned to administrate the Sicilian town of Adano after World War II and his attempt to return it to its pre-war tranquillity. His initial actions include feeding and clothing the villagers, who have been left starved and destitute by the ravages…
Read moreBella Spewack
Bella (Cohen) Spewack was born on March 25, 1899, in Transylvania, at the time a province of the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, now part of Romania. In 1922, she married Sam Spewack, a foreign correspondent for the New York World. After a four-year stint in Europe, the two began writing some…
Read moreBen Brown
Ben Brown is a British playwright who was nominated for the TMA Best New Play Award with his first production, All Things Considered. He went on to win the award with his hit play, Larkin With Women (2000). He also writes for television and film.
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hen an escaped slave shows up at Fort Monroe demanding sanctuary, General Benjamin Butler is faced with an impossible moral dilemma—follow the letter of the law or make a game-changing move that could alter the course of U.S. history?
Read moreBen Elton
Benjamin Charles “Ben” Elton (b. 1959) is a London-born comedian, author, playwright and television director. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, as a writer on such cult series as The Young Ones and Blackadder and as well as a successful stand-up comedian…
Read moreBen H. Winters
BEN H. WINTERS (Book) wrote book and lyrics for two musicals, both with composer Stephen Sislen: SLUT, which was produced Off Broadway in the fall of 2005 at the American Theater of Actors, following a record-breaking run in the New York International Fringe Festival; and SPREAD THE WORD: THE STORY…
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(1894 – 1964) American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, novelist, “the Shakespeare of Hollywood”, who received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films. As a prolific storyteller, Ben Hecht authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or plays, among…
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They said it was unachievable! They said it couldn’t be done! Against all odds the outstanding Daniel Veil Theatre Collective has succeeded in creating a sensational stage adaptation of General Lew Wallace’s timeless classic BEN HUR for a cast of just four actors, presenting one of the most authentic versions…
Read moreBen Travers
Ben Travers (1886 – 1980) was a British playwright most famous for his farces. Born in the UK, Travers was educated at Charterhouse School (where today there is a theatre named for him), followed by a brief spell in business. Travers’ first play THE DIPPERS was produced in 1922 by…
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This comic drama is about doing good and do-gooding and about the way the world changes around you just when you are trying to change it yourself. An architect who believes that if you give people good environments they will be good people is forced to design a high-rise, characterless…
Read moreBenno Besson
Benno Besson, born René-Benjamin Besson, (1922-2006), was a Swiss actor and director. He had great success as director at Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Theater and Berliner Ensemble in East-Berlin, where he went by an invitation of Bertolt Brecht in 1949. Some of his acquainted stagings were “The Dragon” by Jewgenij Schwarz,…
Read moreBenoit Solès
Benoit Solès is a graduate of the Classe Supérieure d’Art Dramatique de Paris. He first appeared in Roger Louret’s Molière-winning musicals La Java des Mémoires and Les Années Twist, then at the Maison de la Culture de Loire-Atlantique (La Folle de Chaillot and Le Marchand de Venise, with Michel Blanc.…
Read moreBent Fabricius-Bjerre
Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (born 1924) is a Danish composer and musician. He has written the score for a large number of musicals, movies and television series; including ”Olsenbanden” / “The Olsen Gang” and “Matador” / “Monopoly” to name a few. He won an American Grammy for his song “Alley Cat” in…
Read moreBent Hamer
Bent Hamer (born 1954) is award winning Norwegian scriptwriter, director and producer. He studied film theory and literature at the University of Stockholm and directing at the Stockholm Film School. In addition to his feature films, he has written and directed a number of short films and documentaries. Hamer is…
Read moreBergljót Arnadóttir
Bergljót Árnadóttir (born December 29, 1949 in Reykjavik, Iceland) is an Icelandic-Swedish playwright and actress trained at The National Theatre Academy in Stockholm. She has worked at many Swedish top theatres and has appeared in several television series and films.
Read moreBergljot Hobæk Haff
Bergljot Hobæk Haff (born 1 May 1925) is a Norwegian novel writer. Upon completing her education, she traveled to Denmark, and taught there for 24 years before returning to Oslo. She made her debut with the novel Raset in 1956. Her books are translated into languages as English, French, Dutch,…
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A reflection on Germany’s reestablished capital city after the fall of the wall – dealing with both what it represents in European history as well as what it meant in David Hare’s own life. Published with the monologue WALL about the Israeli West Bank Barrier.
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How to escape from East Berlin ? Easy, dig a tunnel in a senile old lady’s home ! It was all going smoothly for them until the arrival of a Stasi agent and his wife came on the scene … A hilarious thriller / comedy.
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A play about collapse in the ’90s. The downing of the Berlin Wall unites two sisters from East Berlin and their native London.
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The monologue A STORY FROM BERLIN is about the Berlin waiter, Wiebke Puls, who lives in a fantasy world, where he is the world’s biggest actor. As a self promoted victim Wiebke Puls dreams about being a maniac, who can shake up his surroundings, which his shy personality can’t keep…
Read moreBernard Kops
Bernard Kops is a British Dramatist, poet and novelist, born in the East End of London in 1926. His first play, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, was produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 1957. It is considered to be one of the keystones of the “New Wave” in British Kitchen…
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