BLESSINGS FROM THE PANDEMIC
BLESSINGS FROM THE PANDEMIC, a theater piece in five movements, is a mosaic of poetic reflections exploring our journeys in response to the events of the pandemic: the big, the small, the humorous, the challenging, and even the inspiring.
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This is the tale of Jonah, Sophie, and a fox called Scruffilitis. It’s a love story. A dysfunctional, voyeuristic and darkly funny love story, but a love story all the same. This play is by the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner Phil Porter.
Read moreBLINKENDE LYGTER
One of the most successful Danish films from the year 2000 has now been adapted for the stage: Thorkild and his gang owe a great deal of money. To pay off the dept they are to pick up a suitcase in a villa. During the break-in, they discover that the…
Read moreBLODSTÆNKET MÅNE
Nathan is admitted to the psychiatric department at a hospital, and he has great thoughts about life, death and love. The heavily smoking and eternally quoting Nathan meets the other patients Cordelia, Qurban, Hamid and Michael during his hospitalisation and they all have their very own special view on life…
Read moreBLOOD BROTHERS
Blood Brothers takes place in Liverpool during the 1960’ies and 70’ies. It is a story about two twins, Eddie and Mickey who are born into poverty, separated shortly after birth and therefore grow up in different lifestyles. Throughout childhood they regularly come across each other, ignorant of their true connection.…
Read moreBLOOD KNOT, THE
The plot is simple: in South Africa lives a White and a Negro brother, born of the same woman. They live in a hovel, the White man as the Black brother’s servant. The White man cooks and the Black man brings home the money. They are saving to buy a…
Read moreBLOODY POETRY
This fascinating drama is about radicalism – artistic, political and more. Taking place in Italy, it concerns the characters’ various ideas about radical politics and free love. Along the way, a number of serious questions are raised, not the least of which is why fervent radicals seem so often to…
Read moreBLOOMSDAY
Robert returns to Dublin to reunite with Cait, the woman who captured his heart during a James Joyce literary tour thirty-five years ago. Dancing backwards through time, the older couple retrace their steps to discover their younger selves. Through young Robbie and Caithleen, they relive the unlikely, inevitable events that…
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A lyrically poetic play about the reckless lives of three young men from a small town by the sea. Dramaturgically, it neighbours the latter works by writers such as Abi Morgan and David Greig. However, Sarma has her own, very distinct and sparkling voice that is hard to ignore.
Read moreBLUE DENIM
This moving and compassionate play concerning the problem of communications between the younger and older generations was saluted by the critics as a work of stature and uncommon insight. The juveniles are not delinquent and the parents are not heartless or uncaring; the trouble stems from the fact that they…
Read moreBLUE KETTLE
Derek seeks out his biological mother, hoping to find out why she gave him up when he was a child. Besides her, he also manages to convince three women that he is their son, and eventually he also convinces his girlfriend to participate in the scam. Once in a while…
Read moreBLUE REMEMBERED HILLS
This apparently simple tale relates the activities of seven-year-olds on a summer afternoon during World War II. The children (all played by adult actors) and their world become a microcosm of adult interaction. Willie tags along as burly Peter bullies Raymond and is challenged by fairminded John. Audrey is over-shadowed…
Read moreBLUE RIDGE
At a church-sponsored halfway house in Western North Carolina, the arrival of a charismatic high-school English teacher shakes up the household dynamic, leading to new friendships, routines, and intrigues. As romantic rivalries and racial tensions escalate, the house’s residents and two founders—a taciturn, broad-minded minister and an idealistic social worker—must…
Read moreBLUE SURGE
The play opens with a somewhat unsuccessful arrest of two prostitutes in a small American town and ends with a police officer risking not only his job, but also his best friend and his own wedding, for a case that turns out not to be what he expected. A hilarious…
Read moreBLUE/ORANGE (MALE VERSION)
This play takes place at a psychiatric hospital ward, where two doctors need deciding whether a patient is ready to be discharged. The one doctor, who has followed the patient’s progress, thinks it irresponsible, whereas his more career focused colleague, believes that there is no reason for the patient to…
Read moreBLUEBERRY TOAST
An absurd American satire on suburban life portraying an ordinary, perfect family that one Sunday morning experiences the idyll developing into a bloody nightmare for mother, father and children. All parts are played by adults.
Read moreBLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE
In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. In the aftermath of Richard Henry’s murder, the trial of store owner Lyle Britten gives way to a reflection upon racism in America. The play is loosely based on the Emmett…
Read moreBLUIE WEST ONE
This is a black comedy about the war that lives secretly and emerges in both the man and the woman. The play is to be acted out as a comedy from the beginning to the end. The background is a very “realistic”, enormous hospital set, hidden near a military base…
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If the walls could talk … Based on the Danish interior magazine, Bo Bedre (Better Living) which was first published in March 1961, this play gives a sneak peek into the everyday life as lived within the four walls. Everything has changed since 1961: Family structures, gender roles, consumption patterns…
Read moreBo hr. Hansen
Bo hr. Hansen is born in Copenhagen in 1961. In the 1980s he wrote poems and played in the punk band Cinema Noir. From 1980-86 he studied at the The Danish School of Journalism and also finished the script writing course at The National Film School of Denmark. Hansen has…
Read moreBo Sigvard Nilsson
Bo Sigvard Nilsson was born in 1942 in Gothenburg. He has published several books of which most of them are for adults. Nilsson has produced many hours of television drama – most of these being series for television. Some of Bo Sigvard Nilsson’s novels have also been produced for television.…
Read moreBob Crewe
Stanley Robert “Bob” Crewe (1930 – 2014) was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager and record producer. He was known for producing, and co-writing with Bob Gaudio, a string of Top 10 singles for the Four Seasons. As a songwriter, his most successful songs included “Silhouettes” (co-written with Frank Slay);…
Read moreBob Gaudio
Robert John “Bob” Gaudio (b. 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer, and the keyboardist/backing vocalist for the Four Seasons.
Read moreBob Merrill
One of popular music’s most prolific and popular songwriters, Bob Merrill was best known for a string of hits ranging from novelty smashes like HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW? to more serious fare including Barbra Streisand’s PEOPLE. Born in Philadelphia in 1923, Merrill hitchhiked to New York…
Read moreBOBBIN UP
Based on the novel by Dorothy Hewett published 1959 It is the late 1950s and the Russians launch the first Sputnik. A group of women sweat in the Jumbuck Woollen Mills in Sydney for breadline wages. The whistle blows – grime is washed from faces, hair combed, lipstick appliedand the…
Read moreBOBBY GOULD IN HELL
BOBBY GOULD IN HELL is a 1989 one-act play by American playwright David Mamet. The play concerns the character Bobby Gould from Mamet’s 1988 play SPEED-THE-PLOW and his time in Hell. Gould is subjected to questions from a devilish, perverse, erratic and bullying personage referred to in the cast list…
Read moreBOBLERNE I BÆKKEN
This is a very beautiful and tragicomic play about dying and different ways of dying: in each of the five brown hospital beds on stage, five dying men are sleeping. One after the other, they wake up and discuss women, victories, losses and the sorrow from having to leave early.…
Read moreBOCA
Are you ready for some laughs? Soak up the good life in Boca Raton, a city that offers the fountain of youth. In this Garden of Eden, the sun always shines, the lawns are always manicured, and the weather holds steady at a perfect 75, just like Boca’s well-maintained seniors.…
Read moreBODIES
As the play begins, Anne and Mervyn, a seemingly well-seated middle-aged couple, are awaiting the arrival of Helen and David, a younger couple who were formerly their neighbours and close friends. Their reunion begins on a light and humorous note, but as the after-dinner talk grows more serious we become…
Read moreBoel Schenlaer
Boel Schenlaer (born 1963) is a Swedish writer of poetry, radio and stage plays. She is not only an imaginative innovator of the Scandinavian family themes on the stage these years. Also she knows how to handle a play with many characters and to create dramatic confrontations which are both…
Read moreBOESMAN AND LENA
Two Black scavengers emerge from the underbrush loaded with their total possessions – the makings of a shack and a battery of pots and pans but nothing to cook in them. They are the dregs of society, the stepped upon, the spat upon. The play is carefully structured as a…
Read moreBOHEEMIELÄMÄÄ (LA VIE DE BOHÈME / DAS LEBEN DER BOHÈME)
The storyline of this delightful, melancholic and cheerful story is based on Henri Murger’s novel ¨Scènes de la vie de Bohème” (1846). It takes place in the present Paris. In a picturesque, but dilapidated flat, three artists reside under poor conditions: Rudolfo is an Albanian refuge and painter; Marvel is…
Read moreBOLD GIRLS, THE
The drama of everyday life in Belfast – burning buses, ravaged blocks, gunfire – are but off-stage events in this stirring play about three women whose men have been killed or imprisoned for their political activities. Bread is bought between explosions and it is risky to visit a nightclub, but…
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Mary is sexually starved, since her husband Peter lost his genitals while serving in Northern Ireland. Lisa is longing for a mature relation and a child, which her long-time boyfriend Ian won’t supply. The tension between the friends mounts as Peter is unable to tell what is really wrong with…
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A polyphonic text that raises questions about what responsibility art has when it comes to war. At the Venice Biennale an audience is watching a performance. Three narrative strings come out of this: 1. A fighter pilot is to drop a bomb on a school. 2. A boy films the…
Read moreBOMBING PEOPLE
“”A bright light filled the plane,”” wrote Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets. “”We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud…boiling up, mushrooming.”” For a moment, no one spoke. Then everyone was talking. “”Look at that! Look at that! Look at that!”” exclaimed the co-pilot,…
Read moreBOMBSHELLS
They are all here – the stereotypes of the modern woman. And one single actress performs them all: Meryl Davenport; The eternally stressed mother. Tiggy Entwhistle; A woman who attempts to get back on her feet after an ended relationship. Mary O’Donnell; An optimistic teenage girl who participates in a…
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Thea Dorn unfolds, as a monodrama, the psychogram of a female suicide bomber. Repelled by the luxury in which she grows up, disgusted by the untroubled, pampered life she leads in her parent’s house, yearning for a meaningful and heroic life, a germ of resistance takes root within a woman…
Read moreBON BONS AND ROSES FOR DOLLY
The tawdry dreams of three generations – set in a rundown cinema, 1890s to 1970s. Published by Currency Methuen Drama 1976 Awgie Award, Best Play -(1974)
Read moreBONHEUR DES MECHANTS, LE
The famous French playwritter has created a powerful dramatic and well constructed drama with a dominant female role.
Read moreBONNE SOUPE, LA
The technical skills in Marceau’s drama are as less academic in its theatrical form as it was in “The egg”. The theme is near related – a study in desperation – but it is worked out with a – if possible – greater wildness and comical effectiveness in situations and…
Read moreBONNES, LES
The play conveys something very essential in a striking way. It illustrates how we are both ourselves and our contradiction. How humiliation and submission can cause disastrous explosions and that sexuality has something to do with friction between two poles, not necessarily female and male, and how it is considerably…
Read moreBOOH!
The musical Booh! is a comic story of a movie making that takes place in a German castle in the 30s. The German horror film director Otto Fritz von Lang is in the process of making the first audio horror, but the footage does not go as planned, not least…
Read moreBOOK OF THE MONTH
A young girl disgraces her family by writing a daring novel which is the beginning of many entertaining confusions.
Read moreBOOK OF WILL, THE
Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that…
Read moreBOOKPINK
Caren Jeß was chosen the up-and-coming writer of the year in the 2020 Theater Heute year book for BOOKPINK (a German word for the bird chaffinch) which is a collection of miniature plays (the author calls the material a dramatic compendium) about human and social constellations seen through birds. A fine…
Read moreBOOMERANG
An elder actress informs her industrious, yet untalented younger male student and admirer that he is worthless when it comes to the art of acting. Reality comes crashing down on him, and as he threatens to jump out of the window, she takes him with her home to her flat.…
Read moreBoris Vian
Boris Vian (1920 – 1959) was a French author, playwright, poet, singer, and musician, who also wrote under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan. He was born in Ville-d’Avray, near Paris, and educated at the École Centrale Paris. His works were often highly controversial, but his writing and performance of jazz songs…
Read moreBörje Nyberg
Börje Nyberg, born Nils Börje Emanuel Nyberg, (1920-2005), was a Swedish actor, director and playwright. In 1943 he entered the National School of Theatre in Göteborg, where after he started his carrier as a director at Åbo Svenska Teater, then at Wasa Svenska Teater og finally at Helsingborg Theatre. In…
Read moreBORN IN THE GARDENS
In a mock-Tudor manor gone to seed lives 70-year-old Maud and her younger son, forty-five-year-old Mo. She speaks more to soundless television than to him and he plays New Orleans jazz on his drums. An attempt to destroy this happy way of life is made on the occasion of the…
Read moreBORN WITH TEETH
An aging ruler, an oppressive police state, a restless polarized people seething with paranoia: it’s a dangerous time for poets. Two of them—the great Kit Marlowe and up-and-comer Will Shakespeare—meet in the back room of a pub to collaborate on a history play cycle, navigate the perils of art under…
Read moreBORN YESTERDAY
The vulgar, egotistic junkman Harry Brock has come to a swanky hotel in Washington to make crooked deals with government big-wigs. He has brought with him the charming but dumb ex-chorus girl Billie, whose lack of social graces embarrasses even Harry. Billie must be taught some of the amenities, and…
Read moreBORTOM GRYNINGEN
Cassandra Clarke’s heart is broken, when her lover leaves her behind. She needs change of air and goes to Australia to work with the flying doctors. There she meets the farmers, who have never met a female doctor before. She is challenged by the doubt of the patients and colleagues,…
Read moreBOSS OF THE POOL
Adapted from Robin Klein’s best-selling novel. Shelley is embarrassed when her mother starts working at the retard farm. Why can’t she get a decent job? Petra’s mother gets cheap cassettes from hers. At the pool, Ben is afraid of the water but hangs around the edge and Tania in the…
Read moreBOSTON MARRIAGE
This melodramatic comedy takes place some one hundred years ago, in a slightly depraved upper class society in America. The title refers to an old Victorian saying for a long-term lesbian relationship. One is introduced to Anna and Claire, two elegant and arrogant upper-class ladies, who are both embarking on…
Read moreBOTTOM OF THE PILE, THE
An extremely amusing and eccentric variant of the idea of a drama in the drama: The milieu – the big house of the actress, besieged of theatre people – is cleverly caught and the roles are unusual merrily painted and gratefully playable.
Read moreBOY FRIEND, THE
The Boyfriend is a witty and clever caricature of the Charleston era. It takes place in ca. 1926 at Madame Dubonnet’s posh girls’ school that is happily situated on the French Riviera. A millionaire’s daughter, Polly falls in love with the messenger boy Tony who, as it turns out, is…
Read moreBOY OVERBOARD
Adapted for the stage by Patricia Cornelius from Morris Gleitzman’s best-selling novel and commissioned by the Australian Theatre for Young People, Boy Overboard depicts a deeply human side of the ‘asylum seekers’ issue by following the journey of Jamal and Bibi from Afghanistan to Australia. Their dream is to play…
Read moreBoyan Papazov
Boyan Papazov was born in Sophia in 1943. From 1965 until 1971 he attended the Moscow Film Academy. He followed the scriptwriting and direction courses and subsequently he has made several films as well as documentaries. Papazov is politically active in the UDF and was a member of the Bulgarian…
Read moreBOYBAND
The musical follows the rise and fall of a fictional Boyband, told with dynamic energy, great humour, and the songs of Westlife, the Backstreet Boys, Take That, Boyzone, etc!
Read moreBOYS IN THE BAND, THE
This dramatization of a gay birthday party with its bitterness, corrosive humor and vicious party games opened in New York in 1968 and changed the way the theatre portrays homosexuals and homosexuality. When it was recently revived at New York’s WPA Theatre, critics reaffirmed its status as a powerful and…
Read moreBørge Müller
Børge Müller (1909 – 1963) was a Danish script writer and writer of revues. He’s famous for his contributions to films such as Meet Me At Cassiopeia and Mrs. Nitouche.
Read moreBørge Wagner
Børge Wagner was a solo hornist in the Danish Radiosymphony orchestra from 1956-68. He made his debut as a professional conductor in 1964. He was the permanent conductor at the Danish Odense Symphony Orchestra from 1968-86. He guest conducted at every Danish symphony orchestra, The Royal Life Guard’s band and…
Read moreBRANDES
BRANDES is a play concerning the fact when women are fascinated by powerful men. This is a play about Georg Brandes, who is the main character of the modern break trough and the Father of the Cultural Radicalism. He is a dangerous seducer too, who takes the women’s liberation –…
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Karla is missing. Vlado, Sophia, and Sophia’s sister – the play’s narrator – leave the safety of their apartment to search for their missing friend. As their story slowly unravels, it becomes clear that the narrator isn’t as reliable as she seems and Vlado has been keeping a secret. Brandung…
Read moreBREADWINNER, THE
THE BREADWINNER (1930) was William Somerset Maugham’s third last play and is a comedy written in one continuous act. “I don’t want to be cruel. I merely said that in a well-regulated state, when people have outlived their utility, say at forty, they ought to be put out of their…
Read moreBREAKING LEGS
The action occurs in an Italian restaurant owned by a successful mobster and managed by his beautiful unmarried daughter. When the daughter’s former college professor arrives to ask for financial backing for a play he has written about a murder, the fun begins. The three main Mafiosi are intrigued with…
Read moreBREAKING THE CODE
Breaking the Code is about British mathematician Alan Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II. The play thematically links Turing’s cryptographic activities with his attempts to grapple with his homosexuality.
Read moreBREAKING THE WAVES
Dramatized by Vivian Nielsen 3 F / 6 M Drama This play is based on Lars Von Trier’s Grand Prix Du Jury (Cannes) winning film. The story takes place in the early 70s in a condensed and religious society on a distant coast in Northern Scotland. It is the story…
Read moreBREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
The story is set in 1960 during a weekend at the Catskills holiday resort, and it describes the two friends Louis and Marge’s quest for fun, trouble and romance. The musical contains 18 classic songs by Neil Sedaka, among these are ”Where The Boys Are”, ”Sweet Sixteen”, ”Calender Girl” and…
Read moreBREATH OF LIFE
Madeleine Parker is a retired curator, who lives alone on the Isle of Wight. One day she has an unexpected visitor, the popular author Angela Beale whom she has met once before. The two women, it turns out, have shared the same man and have also both been rejected by…
Read moreBREATH OF SPRING
When Dame Beatrice is given a mink stole by her maid, she is reminded of the maid’s shady past and immediately suspects that it was stolen from the next flat. A former army officer and other lodgers endeavour to return the stole. The plan is devised with care and all…
Read moreBREEZEBLOCK PARK
”Superior” council-house dwellers Betty, Reeny, Vera and their men regard themselves as a close-knit family team despite their concealed jealousies and occasional recriminations. When Betty’s daughter Sandra announces she is pregnant and intends to live unmarried with her student lover, the news explodes like an atom bomb.
Read moreBREMER FREIHEIT
The play is about a woman who systematically poisons all the people in her life who are trying to control and oppress her, mostly men. The story is based on actual events which occurred in the 1830s, when a woman named Geesche Gottfried killed fifteen people and was beheaded in…
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