Bernard-Marie Koltès
Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948 – 1989) was a French playwright and director. Koltès’s work, based in real-life problems, expresses the tragedy of being alone and of death. His writing style accents the dramatic tension and the lyricism of his plays. Koltes is most famous for his plays The Night Just Before…
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After committing an unforgivable crime, Leroy is granted one final wish: a chance to make amends with his long-lost lover, Berta. Their reunion swells from a quarrelsome conjuring of the past to an impassioned plot to escape their impending fate.
Read moreBertolt Brecht
A poet first and foremost, Bertolt Brecht’s genius was for language. However, because this language is built upon a certain bold and direct simplicity, his plays often lose something in the translation from his native German. Nevertheless, they contain a rare poetic vision, a voice that has rarely been paralleled…
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The authors Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson have written 16 books about Bert Ljung – a series of stories that are highly entertaining, but also contain serious parts about becoming an adult; about girls, diaries, summertime adventures and rock ‘n’ roll. This play is based on 6 books of a…
Read moreBESSEREN WÄLDER, DIE
The wolf Ferdinand has grown up among the sheep, and has become one of them. When one of the sheep is found dead, the suspicion is immediately directed at him and he flees to the other wolves. A goose claims to be a fox, and a bear to be a…
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Music and lyrics by Carol Hall Dialogue by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson This musical is based on the true story of a legendary Texas brothel known as the Chicken Ranch which operated from the 1840s to 1973 when it was finally shut down by the efforts of a…
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Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962), the influential curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University, was an inveterate diarist and correspondent whose intimates included Ruskin, Hardy and T. E. Lawrence. Whitemore has adapted ”The Best of Friends” from several decades’ worth of letters exchanged by Cockerell, George Bernard Shaw and Laurentia…
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A mythical love story between Asan and Alina, who meet and are instantly drawn to each other. However, their mutual fear of being abandoned, places them in a power-relation, trying to hold on to each other… A symbolic and grotesque depiction on love, lust and power relations…
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After a terribly ‘wet’ party, a successful authoress is locked up in a room at a publishing house together with her editor, a literary critic as well as a young office assistant. Consequently, the play develops into a wonderful comedy about revelations, alcohol, sexual relationships, friendly turns and last but…
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An American comedy in verse. La ‘Bete’ is a play about the tuff being of the theatre and entertainment business. A baroque comedy and a fight on words, opinions and speech between the elitist and fine cultural theatre manager Élomire and the popular street entertainer Valére. The fight begins when…
Read moreBeth Henley
Elizabeth Becker Henley was born on May 8, 1952, in Jackson, Mississippi. Growing up, Henley always dreamed of becoming an actress. After graduating from highschool, she attended Southern Methodist University where she wrote her first play, a one-act entitled Am I Blue which was produced at SMU’s Margo Jones Theatre…
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This is a ‘backward’ comedy, in nine scenes, based on the eternal triangle theme. Effectively, the play starts in present time, in this case 1977 where an adulterous affair comes to an end. The people involved are the publisher Robert, his wife Emma and lastly his best friend Jerry, a…
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Outside the city’s gate the Emperor confronts a blind beggar who has recently lost his dog. The beggar has nothing more to lose, so he tells the Emperor the truth about himself.
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The team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, 1991 recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, and the longest running creative partnership in theatre history, began writing and performing their own satirical comic material in a group called The Revuers, which included the late Judy Holliday. They went on to collaborate…
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BETTY NANSEN is a tribute to the famous woman, actress and theatre manager. The play depicts the artist and the theatre’s reponsibility in hard times.
Read moreBeverley Cross
Playwright and screenwriter Beverley Cross is best remembered for launching the illustrious career of actress Dame Maggie Smith. The son of an actress and a theater manager, Cross wrote his first play in the late ’50s. His second play, STRIP THE WILLOW (1960), starred a young Maggie Smith, and while…
Read moreBEWITCHED, THE
The play tells the story of one of Europe’s greatest and bloodiest wars, the War of the Spanish Succession, which opened the eighteenth century and shaped the course of history for generations. This great and bloody war could have been avoided if King Carlos II of Spain had had an…
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The neurotic Bruce is a manic bi-sexual who meets the unstable writer Prudence through a personal advert. The date is a total disaster! A week later, they meet again by chance at the very same restaurant. Prudence has reacted to a new and exiting advert – and the author is…
Read moreBIBLE: THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD (ABRIDGED), THE
“See this show or go to hell!” This is how The Reduced Shakespeare Company launched their concentrated examination of the bible from figs leaves to doomsday. We gallop from Eva to Exodus, whilst going through the gospels, the epistles and the apostles. Avoid condemnation and receive this hilarious tribute to…
Read moreBIEDERMANN UND DIE BRANDSTIFTER
BIEDERMANN UND DIE BRANDSTIFTER depicts the human incapability to learn, wherefore we often tend to be guilty in our own unhappiness. Why do we let arsonists into our homes? Are we that naive that we even tend to give the arsonist the matches? A dark comedy with food for thought.
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In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky took this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the…
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BIG FISH 12-Chair is the new, small-cast version (for 12-actors) of the Broadway musical. Based on the celebrated novel by Daniel Wallace and the acclaimed film directed by Tim Burton, BIG FISH centers on Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman who lives life to its fullest… and then some! Edward’s incredible,…
Read moreBIG GAME, THE (ONE ACTS BY TENN)
The play takes place in a hospital room. Tony (20), a baseball player, has an infection in his leg and insists on joining today’s big game even though the doctors won’t let him. Dave (20) has a lung infection, sleeps poorly at night and spends the majority of his time…
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Clifford Odets´ THE BIG KNIFE is a showdown with Hollywood, where he for eight years where stuck in the movie industry and wrote scripts. The growing lack of human compassion and the artistic world and the so called “business ethics” that is often confused with American film business, have seldom…
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A journalistic thriller about mass manipulation in the age of big data! While a scandal splashes the President of the United States and agitates the editorial staff of New York Investigation, journalist Julia Robinson sees her life wavering in a courtroom when she thinks she recognizes her companion, who died…
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The play is a meeting between Selma Lagerlöf and Tora Teje, a young actress who was to star in Julius Jaensons film based on Lagerlöf’s book “The coachman” but who lost her part when she lost her place as Juliu’s mistress. She is looking for an explanation and brings chaos…
Read moreBill Russell
BILL RUSSELL (Book co-author and Lyrics) wrote the book and lyrics for the critically acclaimed Broadway musical SIDE SHOW, receiving a Tony nomination for book and sharing a nomination with composer Henry Krieger for score. He co-wrote the book and lyrics for Off-Broadway’s long-running musical PAGEANT (with collaborators Frank Kelly,…
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BILL RUSSELL (Book co-author and Lyrics) wrote the book and lyrics for the critically acclaimed Broadway musical SIDE SHOW, receiving a Tony nomination for book and sharing a nomination with composer Henry Krieger for score. He co-wrote the book and lyrics for Off-Broadway’s long-running musical PAGEANT (with collaborators Frank Kelly,…
Read moreBILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR
Billy Bishop Goes to War is a Canadian musical and one of the most famous and widely-produced plays in Canadian theatre, it dramatizes the life of Canadian World War I fighter pilot Billy Bishop. The actor plays 18 different characters, accompanied on piano and vocals.
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A teenager in a North Country town, Billy Fisher weaves a world of his own out of his day dreams. He is an incurable liar, idle and dishonest, and to escape from his dull job as an undertaker’s clerk and his dreary domestic background he imagines himself in so many…
Read moreBilly Roche
Billy Roche (b. 1949) is an Irish playwright and actor. He was born and still lives in Wexford and most of his writings are based there. Originally a singer with The Roach Band, he turned to writing in the 1980s. As Michael Billington has noted, the 1980s were not a…
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Winner of a Tony award for Best Play. This is Chapter Two in the trilogy of Eugene Morris Jerome, alter ego of the youthful Neil Simon (First Chapter is Brighton Beach Memories and Third Chapter is Broadway Bound). When we last met Eugene, he was coping with adolescence in the…
Read moreBina’s Six Apples
Bina’s family grows the finest apples in all of Korea. But when war forces her to flee her home, Bina is alone in the world with just six precious apples to her name. Can these meager possessions help her find her family? Join Bina on her spirited journey that ranges…
Read moreBINDING, THE
Set in the Midwest, The Binding tells the story of Isaac, a deeply closeted, religious teen whose childhood imaginary friend, Poppy, returns on the eve of his sixteenth birthday. As Poppy begins to unravel Isaac’s tightly wound secrets, both must learn to escape the smothering identities they have chosen. The…
Read moreBIPERSONEN / A MINOR CHARACTER
Ophelia’s mother, who was she? In Hamlet, we meet not only the gloomy prince and his problematic family. Also, Polonius, the courtier, and his two children, Ophelia and Laertes play prominent parts ? and somebody must have been given birth to those children! In the monologue BIPERSONEN/A MINOR CHARACTER we…
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When Sylvia returns only twenty-four hours after walking out, her husband Max isn’t exactly overjoyed. Nor is three times divorced Harry who has set the wheels in motion to recapture the romantic successes of their youthful days of bachelorhood and it’s too late to stop the young ladies arriving! Sylvia…
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Based on Daphne du Maurier’s short story, “The Birds” (1952), which inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film of the same title, Conor McPherson’s play is set in an isolated lakeside house, sometime, somewhere in the present. Relative strangers Nat and Diane have taken refuge in the abandoned dwelling, seeking sanctuary from…
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When it becomes intolerable for Maryann Norris to hear her neighbors bird quacking all day, a confrontation is coming.
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BIRTHDAY CANDLES takes the audience on a journey through the life of Ernestine Ashworth by dropping in on her birthdays. Starting at her 17th birthday and winding up when she’s over 100, we witness her ups and downs and how life tends to repeat itself from one generation to the…
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In this full-length play, we follow the rather neurotic Stanley, who is the only guest at a decaying beach boarding house, run by the naïve Meg and her wimpy husband Petey. Then one day two dubious strangers, Goldberg and McCann arrive searching for Stanley. Meg informs them that it is…
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Geoff Tippet has arranged a special birthday treat for his old friend, Bob. The treat is a hotel room for the night, a double-bed which folds up into the wall and an attractive girl called Mimi. Add a shy Kate who anxiously awaits her computer agency date – Dick, who…
Read moreBISHOP’S BONEFIRE, THE
The Bishop’s bonfire is a comedy with a melodramatic conclusion centering on a bishop’s visit to his hometown, where evil literature is burned on a bonfire.
Read moreBÍTLAÁVARPIÐ (THE BEATLE MANIFESTO)
Stage adaptation rights available “A spectre is haunting the streets of the world, the spectre of the Beatles. “ This is the opening line to Einar Mar Gudmundsson´s novel, which shows how embedded the Beatles were to become in the minds of Icelandic school children in the seventies – and…
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Far out comedy about a man’s greatness and fall. Barney Fein is a powerful and depraved Hollywood film producer who devours young female talents just because he can. As the attempt to bring down his next victim fails, his collapse begins without him ever knowing it. A delirious comedy on…
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A contemporary classic about female dilemmas in a modern world. The famous designer Petra von Kant leads a lonely life of beauty. After two failed marriages, her only company is the mute, suppressed assistant Marlene. Seeing that Petra no longer has a husband, she finds it convenient to fall in…
Read moreBjarne Reuter
Bjarne Reuter was born in Brønshøj/Copenhagen in 1950. He is a trained teacher, but has worked full time as a writer since 1980. His books span widely; from magical worlds to the uncensored view on reality; catering for children, teenagers and grown-ups. Because of his sublime use of language, Reuter…
Read moreBjørn Birch
Bjørn Birch is a trained actor and dancer. He was employed at the theater Riksteatret for 8 years until 1982. He has appeared in over 40 plays, musicals and television and radio productions. Bjørn Birch was head of the Berliner Ensemble Krans which specializes in theater for social institutions from…
Read moreBjørn Olaf Johannessen
Bjørn Olaf Johannessen holds a degree in marine technology engineering and has worked as a researcher and environmental adviser in Trondheim and Oslo. He is active in the group of artists ‘The Chosen’, which have specialized in film and theatre. You can also find him at Screenwriters in Oslo. Apart…
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Blabbermouth is the adaptation of another popular Morris Gleitzman novel and is about a young girl, Rowena, who moves to a new country town, and school, with her widowed father who has a penchant for satin cowboy shirts and embarrassing his daughter in public. Rowena hears, but cannot speak and…
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This little known mystery will surprise and delight Christie fans. Written in 1934, the story concerns a physicist named Sir Claude Amory who has come up with a formula for an atom bomb. In the first act, Sir Claude is poisoned and Hercule Poirot is called in to solve the…
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A young sculptor “borrows” his grandmother’s fine antique furniture in order to make an impression on two expected visitors: a painter and a future father-in-law who is very temperamental. A fuse blows and the house falls into darkness. The guests arrive and suddenly the late mistress of the sculptor arrives…
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A young urban couple is stranded on a remote train station in a Russian province. As hustlers, they are on a promotional tour offering free toasters; with the only drawback of sky-high shipping expenses. Soon, however, a group of local antagonistic farmers make life somewhat difficult for the two metropolitan…
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The author has taken his motif for this drama from the dramatic events in Little Rock. It was the day that coloured children for the first time were admitted to enter the schools of the white children.
Read moreBLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA
Sabrina Jackson cannot cope with the death of herson by a White cop. Rather than herald the BlackLives Matter movement, Sabrina retreats inward,living out a comic book superhero fantasy. WillSabrina stay in this dream world or return to realityand mourn her loss?
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The story takes place in a flat on the top floor. The daughter’s birthday is to be celebrated. The parents have invited the boyfriend of the daughter. Unfortunately both have invited a different boyfriend and the daughter has invited a third boyfriend. Although, this is nothing compared to the confusion…
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This is one of the more unusual love stories, as it revolves around the incontinent, alcoholic Baylis and the 19 years old ex-stripper and drug addict, Froggy. They are both without family and emotionally twisted from life in a brutal world of abuse and violence. Then one day, after three…
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One night on Blackrock Beach, an unspeakable act is perpetrated. This powerful play raises disturbing but potent questions about the way we live our lives in the 90s. What impact does the media have on our perceptions and behaviour? What effect does peer group pressure and the decay of family…
Read moreBlake Edwards
Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump, July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Edwards’ career began in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures. He used his writing skills to begin producing and…
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A dream play about the deepest riddles of love. P.O.Enquist’s play is based on the real story about Marie Curie and her intimate friend Blanche Wittman. The story takes place in the end of the 1800s. Blanche has been committed for hysteria and has among other things, been a guinea…
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This shocking play is a futuristic vision of an England ravaged by civil war, narrated from a hotel room in Leeds. A cornucopia of violence and sexual abuse that can only be taken as a warning. A warning about the consequences of our current situation and the direction in which…
Read moreBLAUBART – HOFFNUNG DER FRAUEN
In BLUEBEARD – THE WOMEN’S HOPE Bluebeard kills all the women, he loves, but the question is, are the women an accessory to their own death, since there all searching for a lover worth dying for?
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The action takes place in a deserted residential area on the outskirts of town, where Darko, a resigned alcoholic, meets the drug whore, Motte. They begin to long after something more – something real – the blue blue sea. With an unconventional and anarchistic way of writing Stockmann tells a…
Read moreBLECHTROMMEL, DIE
A well made dramatization of Günter Grass’ masterpiece “Die Blechtrommel” from 1959. On his three-years-birthday Oskar throws himself down the basement stairs determined on never to grow again – and so it goes. Oskar bare a witness to the rise of Nazism in the 1930’s Danzig, which doesn’t captivate him.…
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