A POUND ON DEMAND
Two gentlemen, who are, as they say in Ireland, “footless”, wander into a Dublin post office in search of funds to continue their celebration.
Read moreA PRAYER
God doesn’t exist. M knows that. Everyone knows that. M lives in a world of reason and science and facts and probability and cause and consequence. He always did. So why is he suddenly praying? What does God respond to that? And is God a nice guy?
Read moreA PRAYER FOR WINGS
A study of hopelessness and depression, as a mother crippled with multiple sclerosis and her plain, dumpy daughter tell us about their wretched lives. It’s a gripping story about a mother who hates men and a daughter who so desperately wants to love them.
Read moreA PRÉSENT / RIGHT NOW
Alice and Ben have just moved into their beautiful new apartment and discover that the family next door wishes to be more than just good neighbours. Soon Juliette, Gilles, and their son Francois are almost synonymous with drinks, hors d’oeuvres and dancing. When the innocent invitations lead to passionate meetings…
Read moreA PROPERTY OF THE CLAN
1 Act / 2F, 2M / Possible doubling / Theatre In Education piece “I never even knew her! More than to say hello to. What do you want me to do? Bawl my eyes out like all the girls? What do you want me to say? I’m sorry? Course I’m…
Read moreA SENTIMENT
Lucretia Mott arrives home late one night in 1848 to find her husband John waiting by the fire. An astonishingly frank conversation ensues as the 55-year-old wife and mother boldly and lovingly explains her co-creation of the Declaration of Sentiments, and her work to create a new future of possibilities…
Read moreA SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS
A Servant of Two Masters, written by Carlo Goldoni in 1743 was an attempt at reviving Commedia dell’arte by scripting the dialogue and still leaving room for improvisation. The play focuses on a simpleminded character named Truffaldino who brings himself into trouble when he attempts to care for two masters…
Read moreA SKULL IN CONNEMARA
This is an adult-only, gothic black comedy. Martin McDonagh’s blood-splattered script, part thriller, part farce, is set mostly in an Irish village graveyard, where Mick disinters human remains every autumn to make way for new arrivals. To help him, he has the local tearaway Mairtin and village gossip Maryjohnny occasionally…
Read moreA SLICE OF SATURDAY NIGHT
It is Saturday night in the provincial club A-GO-GO and three boys and four girls are out trying to catch a date. Desperately the girls try to look like Twiggy, Sandy Shaw or Dusty Springfield while the boys -wearing their suits – want to look like Donovan or one of…
Read moreA SLIGHT ACCIDENT
2 F / 1 M 1 Set The play was written in the spring of 1961 for the Nottingham Playhouse company who wanted something to present in a double bill with ALAS POOR FRED. Penelope shoots her husband – by accident, of course. She buries him under the carpet and…
Read moreA SLIGHT DISCOMFORT
Award-winning playwright Jeff Metcalf has written a remarkably honest – and outrageously funny – monologue about his experience with prostate cancer. This one-man-play, based on his journals, follows Jeff’s journey from diagnosis through his life surviving the disease. It explores the shared experience of being human and dealing with a…
Read moreA SPORTING CHANCE
A play for young people, the action takes place in the course of an under 15’s AFL game. Michelle is worried that her footy days are over and Ferret, playing opposite her, wants more than anything to please his father who has finally come to watch him play. Nancy hates…
Read moreA TENTSHOW PAGLIACCI
A troupe of travelling comics/clowns perform their version of Leoncavallo’s opera “I Pagliacci” – about the Clown who must perform despite a tragic heart – in a tent at a seedy seaside holiday resort. Each member of the troupe has a comic style based on a famous movie comedian/comedienne, from…
Read moreA TOUCH OF COLOR
A TOUCH OF COLOR is a touching, heartwarming and humorous one-man/one-woman musical about being born in the ‘wrong’ body. The musical takes its starting point on the day before the operation when Klaus will become Helena. The story is well-written containing beautiful, melodic and relevant songs that takes us on…
Read moreA WALRUS IN THE BODY OF A CROCODILE
A support group for things inside of things. A class for women writers. A raucous frat party. An absurd exploration of language and gender.
Read moreA. R. Gurney
A. R. Gurney (Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr.) (b. 1930) is an American playwright and novelist. The playwright is known for works including Love Letters, The Cocktail Hour, and The Dining Room. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and as a graduate of St. Paul’s School (Concord, New Hampshire), he…
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This play is based on actual events. A young couple, Luc de Winne and Maggie Strobbe checks in at a hotel with their two little children – a 7-year-old and a 3 month old daughter. A week passes, and the police discover something ghastly. In 1999, in the Belgian town…
Read moreAAN DE OVERKANT (BRÜCKE UND FLUSS)
Mostar became a symbol for the Bosnian war and Roel Adam here looks at the separated town. What happens when you’re no longer allowed to love your friend and later are not able to? What happens when a bridge disguises itself as a blonde and what are the stones thinking?…
Read moreAAN ZEE (STRAND)
A light and at the same time melancholic comedy that follows six youngsters during one summer. An emerging film director wants to shoot a film with his sisters and some friends. It’s going to be a film about “small harassments and one big love”. And for that the participants must…
Read moreABBIAMO TUTTE LA STESSA STORIA
“We all have the same story” is about a woman, who’s unable to afford an abortion, and tells her female infant a wild fairy tale about a little girl and her foul-mouthed dolly who eventually frees her (the grown up little girl) from an empty bourgeois marriage.
Read moreAbe Burrows
Songwriter, composer, writer, panelist, director, singer and pianist. He began his writing career as a script writer for “Duffy’s Taven” on radio, and later, the Rudy Vallee programme. He wrote the Broadway librettos for “GUYS AND DOLLS”, received a Tony award and a New York Drama Critics award in 1951,…
Read moreAbelone Koppel
ABELONE KOPPEL (b. 1963) is a Danish actress, author and playwright with degrees from The Danish National School of Performing Arts and The National Film School of Denmark. As an actress she has performed at Betty Nansen Teatret, Det Ny Teater, Taastrup Teater og Rialto Teatret, to name a few.…
Read moreABER SICHER
Jelinek’s critical sequel to finance play “Die Kontrakte des Kaufmanns” from 2009. Here the absurdities of the financial crisis are seen from the private investors’ view with the involvement of the Oedipus myth and the politician Rosa Luxemburg. It is a text stream without dialogue, characters or action, but rich…
Read moreAbi Morgan
Abi Morgan (1968) is a BAFTA and EMMA award-winning Welsh playwright and TV / film writer studying drama and literature at Exeter University and later taking a postgraduate writing course at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Her work has been performed at some of the most important British theaters and…
Read moreABIDE WITH ME
With unhistrionic force this play captures a sense of life down in Lewisham where unemployment is running rife and demoralisingly among the bored young. It is not a grim play though the final implications are chilling. There is a raw and crude humour in the situation and language of these…
Read moreABIGAIL’S PARTY
A brilliant satire about middle-class English consumerism and appearances, with Alison Steadman’s frightening performance as a frantic woman trying to orchestrate an important dinner party, which is interrupted by her husband’s untimely heart attack.
Read moreABRAHAMS BARN
Judaism, Christianity and Islam all claim Abraham as their ancestor, but is it not really the same story told in three different ways? Coexistence between the children of Abraham has been contentious, but the history of Jews, Christians and Muslims in Europe is much more than a conflict. It is…
Read moreABSENCE OF WAR, THE
After a long period of turmoil, the Leader’s office has imposed an uneasy period of calm on the Labour Party. But the leader, George Jones, knows he has only one chance of power. The third part of a trilogy of plays about British institutions, The Absence of War offers an…
Read moreABSENT FRIENDS
Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancée so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him. Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and Evelyn, and…
Read moreABSOLUTE HELL
Rodney Ackland stopped writing for several years after The Pink Room in 1951, which was the first version of Absolute Hell. It opened to such cruelly damning press notices that it closed after a handful of performances and Ackland’s confidence as a writer was shattered. He dared to suggest that…
Read moreABSOLUTELY TIME
3 F / 3 M Musical for kids 2 Sets This is a musical for kids, about the princess that would not laugh.
Read moreABSURD PERSON SINGULAR
Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. The “lower-class” but very much up-and-coming Hopcrofts are in their bright new, gadget-filled kitchen anxiously giving a little party for their bank manager and his wife and an architect neighbor. Next there are the architect…
Read moreAC/DC
A rebellious play, staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1970, with psyched-out language revolving around sex, drugs, media and technology. Very 60s!
Read moreACCADDE DOMANI
“ACCADDE DOMANI” (part of the collection “Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo” which helped rendering Dario Fo the 1997 Nobel Prize in literature) portrays Irmgard Moeller, a German terrorist and member of the RAF (Red Army Faction) who was sentenced to 22 years in jail for bombing and killing three…
Read moreACCENT ON YOUTH
This play focuses on a romance from May to December. Herbert Marshall (46 years old at the time) is a successful middle-aged playwright; Constance Cummings is his young secretary, who prefers the company of mature men. She sets her cap on marrying the playwright, while he fends off her attentions.…
Read moreACCORDING TO THE CHORUS
Life is full of angst in the basement quick change room of a long-running Broadway show that may be on its last legs, and the women of the chorus are at war with the wardrobe department. Will the new dresser, with her own sad past and uncertain future, be able…
Read moreACE
In St. Louis in 1952, a troubled 10-year-old boy named Danny Lucas, whose mother Elizabeth has been hospitalized for a nervous condition, is placed in foster care in the home of Edward and Louise Milligan. As a boy who grew up knowing nothing of his father, who according to Elizabeth…
Read moreACTE SANS PAROLES (ACT WITHOUT WORDS) II
In the first, a man enters a bare stage soon populated with inanimate objects that begin to tantalize him. In the second act, prodded into “life” two men emerge from sacks. The sacks are transposed at the end- each man having gone through his daily routine in the interim.
Read moreACTE SANS PAROLES (ACT WITHOUT WORDS) I
Act Without Words I is a short symbolic mime play by Samuel Beckett. The action takes place in a desert illuminated by a dazzling light, where a man is flung backwards on stage and presented for different objects…
Read moreACTS OF LIFE
The Acts of Life is a multi-generational story about love and life. Presented in a series of metaphors, we watch as members of a family are born and grow; each experiencing the familiar moments in life that seem to be universal.
Read moreAd de Bont
Ad de Bont was born on 9 May 1949. In 1972 he graduated as a drama teacher and went on to study at the Cabaret Academy in Amsterdam. In 1975, after spending a few years in the classroom, he began working as an actor, director and writer for young people’s…
Read moreADAM AND EVE ON A FERRY
The text is about an unhappy woman who goes to see the great author D.H. Lawrence (one of William’s favourites) in the French Alps. She wants his help in order to overcome a passionate meeting which has become an obsession. Wildly ecstatic, the lovesick woman decides to return to San…
Read moreADAM GEIST
ADAM GEIST is a tale of suffering about a simple young man, who tries to do good, but looses everything in his procession. After the death of his mother Adam seeks comfort and advice from junkies, foreign legionnaires and mercenary soldiers, but when his only friend dies, he answers back…
Read moreAdam Price
Adam Price (born 1967) is a Danish scriptwriter, playwright and food critic. He studied law at The University of Copenhagen between 1986-1990. He has written several satire and drama series for the television and was editor in chief at TV 2’s drama department between 2001-2005. He has written a number…
Read moreAdam Rapp
Adam Rapp is a novelist, filmmaker, playwright and director. In 2006, he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his play Red Light Winter. His other plays include Bingo with the Indians, Kindness, American Sligo, Nocturne, Blackbird, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Finer Noble Gases, Essential Self Defense, Trueblinka,…
Read moreADIEU MONSIEUR HAFFMANN
Molière 2018 Meilleur Spectacle de Théâtre privé & Molière 2018 Auteur francophone vivant Paris, 1942. The Jews are ordered to wear a yellow star. Joseph Haffmann proposes a deal to Pierre Vigneau his employee : he’ll entrust his jewelry shop to him if Pierre accepts hiding him until the situation…
Read moreADMISSIONS
Sherri is Head of Admissions at a private school, a liberal who is fighting to diversify the student intake and a mother who wants the best for her son. When her son is deferred from his university of choice, and his best friend – who ‘ticks more boxes’ – is…
Read moreAdolph Green
Adolph Green (1914 – 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals: ”Singin’ in the Rain”, Say, Darling”, ”The Will Rogers Follies”, ”Applause”, ”Do Re Mi” and many more.
Read moreADRENALIN…HEART
Georgia Fitch’s debut play ADRENALIN…HEART is a fascinating story about love, dependence and abuse. In a series of short scenes we follow the beginning and the end of a fateful relationship between a single mother, Leigh, and a dealer, Angel. The play masterly shows an obsessing love with the same…
Read moreAdrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell was born in London and studied at Oxford University where he passed most of his time learning to write poems. After leaving University, Adrian spent several years as a journalist and his great claim to fame is that he was the first reporter on a national paper to…
Read moreADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO, THE
Carlo Collodi’s classic story has enchanted readers of all ages since it was first published in 1881/83. It is the story about Geppetto the puppeteer who wants a son so badly. One night, as he is sleeping, the good fairy appears and awakens his beloved wooden doll Pinocchio, and he…
Read moreADVICE TO IRAQI WOMEN
A noticeable and satirical text, published in The Guardian march 20th 2003, and produced at The Royal Court. As the title says, this is a series of advice to Iraqi women, to warn them of the danger their children are in. These instructions are delivered in a manner which resembles…
Read moreAESOP’S FABLES
The captive Aesop must go to almighty Zeus to gain his liberty, learning from the animals as he goes. Aesop sets out on his long journey and finds that, as he observes the creatures he meets and learns from their example, the links in his chains gradually drop off. Once…
Read moreAFFE DES STRANDFOTOGRAFEN, DER
Once upon a time there was a beach photographer, who bought himself a monkey to make people laugh on the pictures, because they always bought the pictures with smiles on them. One day the monkey couldn’t make people laugh anymore, so the photographer gave the monkey alcohol and some white…
Read moreAFFENMÖRDER, DER
A man is thrown out of civilization. He sees red, but he doesn’t hit back…
Read moreAFORE NIGHT COME
The harvest is ripe in a Black Country pear orchard, seasoned hands settle to familiar tasks and the ritual education of newcomers. But corrupted land yields a bitter crop. The weather turns, friction mounts and pesticide begins to fall. First produced by the RSC in 1962, Afore Night Come is…
Read moreAFRICAN COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III, THE
Earning their bread with satires of white high society, the African Company came to be known for debunking the sacred status of the English classics (which many politically and racially motivated critics said were beyond the scope of black actors). Inside the Company’s ranks, similar debates raged about whether to…
Read moreAFTER DINNER
2 Acts / 2M, 3F / late 20s or early 30s A black comedy about being single and eating in restaurants. Five people converge on a suburban nightspot to enjoy their meal and the after dinner entertainment. A bitter sweet farce about human vulnerability. Published Currency Press 1988
Read moreAFTER HAGGERTY
Soon after moving into the flat he has rented from Haggerty, Bernard is faced with the arrival of Claire. For Claire, Bernard’s unexpected presence is part of the aftermath of Haggerty, like her baby son and her bitter memories. For Bernard (with two failed marriages behind him), Claire’s presence mirrors…
Read moreAFTER MAGRITTE
Harris, his mother and his wife are a kooky trio. Enter the forceful inspector from Scotland Yard with his constable – which is strange, notes the wife, for she had ordered an ambulance. The officers proceed to place the three under arrest. It is not clear why; something about a…
Read moreAFTER MISS JULIE
The story in Marber’s version of Strindberg’s ”Fröken Julie” takes place in a country house in England, July 1945. The British Labour won the election, and the celebration has commenced. Tipsy upper class daughter Miss Julie enters the servants’ kitchen to look for the father’s chauffer John. A passionate midsummer…
Read moreAFTER THE DANCE
Set in the Mayfair flat of a high-living, hard-drinking, successful writer, David, the play turns on his involvement with two women, his wife Joan and an earnest minded younger woman, Helen. Joan commits suicide. David considers following her but instead returns to a life of parties and drinking. A magnificent…
Read moreAFTER THE FALL
Miller returned to stage in 1964 after a nine-year absence with the play AFTER THE FALL, a strongly autobiographical work, which dealt with the questions of guilt and innocence. Many critics consider that Maggie, the self-destructive central character in the play, was modelled on Monroe, though Miller denied this. This…
Read moreAFTER THE LIONS
Set in France during the First World War, After the Lions takes as its subject the legendary Sarah Bernhardt, portrayed here towards the end of her illustrious career. “She wants to go on acting “ remonstrates her secretary Pitou, “Why? Hasn’t she had enough applause, fame, lovers? She wants to…
Read moreAFTERMATH, THE
The story of workers who have undergone a long and successful strike. A friendship is formed on the picket line but is put under pressure when it becomes clear that their struggle is far from over.
Read moreAFTERPLAY
In this play, Friel has put together two of Tjekov’s suffering characters; Andrei, the mediocre brother from THREE SISTERS and Vanja’s niece, Sonya from UNCLE VANJA. 20 years after the endings of the original works, the two are placed in the same café somewhere in Moskow and that is the…
Read moreAgatha Christie
Born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay, England, Agatha Christie published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, and went on to become one of the most famous writers in history. She sold billions of copies of her work, and was also a noted playwright and romance author.…
Read moreAGE DE MONSIEUR EST AVANCÉ, LE
An author, an actress and a stage manager star in this plotless story about the preparation of a new play. Scenes of the audience are inserted to move along this story within a story.
Read moreAGENT BERND ETZEL
One day the married couple, Heinz and Hilde Gellert, get a visit from a certain Mr. Bernd Etzel. Suddenly their life changes. While drunk driving Heniz has hit Bernd by accident and now Bernd demands that he and Hilde get him back on his feet or pay the hospital expenses…
Read moreAgnar Mykle
Agnar Mykle (1915-1994) was a Norwegian author and one of the steadiest stylists in modern Norwegian writing with a combination of lyrical prose and a realism rich in words.
Read moreAgnès Jaoui
Agnès Jaoui (b. 1964) is a French screenwriter, film director, actress and singer of Tunisian Jewish descent. She frequently works in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri. Her screenplays include: Smoking/No Smoking (1993), Cuisine et dépendances (1993), Un air de famille (1996), On connaît la chanson (1997), The Taste of…
Read moreAGNES OF GOD
Doctor Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is asked to determine the sanity of a young nun accused of murdering her own baby. Mariam Ruth, the Mother Superior, seems bent on protecting Sister Agnes from the doctor, and Livingstone’s suspicions are immediately aroused. In searching for solutions to various mysteries (Who killed…
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