ALLTAG UND EKSTASE
Janne is a young, modern man of around 40. He works at himself every day. He attempts to create an optimal self, questions his own motives and reconsiders his consumer choices. His ex, Katja, overwhelmed with the requirements of raising their daughter, River, searches for comfort among various new Prince…
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Anna has been prescribed anti-depressants since childhood and has just become of legal age. She is naturally fascinated by the possibility of coming off the pills, but her mother stands in her way trying to keep her safe. The play is a striking examination of society’s attitude to treating mental…
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This comedy tells the story about grown-up children, who move back in with their parents due to problems with lovers and finances – just at the time when the happy parents were about to enjoy life and each other, on their own yet again.
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Is Joan of Arc a heroine or a witch, a soldier’s whore or a virgin? She has no doubt. She’s on a mission from God and with her strong faith, she convinces all on her path. But can her pure and strong belief win over the court snakes and church…
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Since his breakthrough on the stage in 1971 Peter Turrini has continued to write plays that have escalated him into the forefront of the Austrian theater scene.Although the forms, styles, and problems have steadily changed and increased in complexity over the more than twenty years of his literary career, one…
Read moreALPHA BETA
Alpha Beta is a study of a collapsing marriage, spaced over nine years and running from an ingrained routine of rows and sexual frustration to the man’s miserable compromise as a Sunday daddy.
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This play is set in the archive of a rundown provincial newspaper. Among the hilarious characters, one finds a female librarian who looks after the various needs of the reporters as well as a leader writer, who never quite manages to express his views clearly. Additionally there is a new…
Read moreALTE LIEBE
20 hilarious and touching scenes between the aging married couple, Lore and Harry – both in their 80ies. This is Elke Heidenreich’s own stage adaptation of her and Bernd Schroeder’s 2009 bestselling novel. Numerous productions in the German-speaking area. Wonderful parts for 2 actors.
Read moreALTE SCHACHTELN
With ALTE SCHACHTELN Ingeborg von Zadow has made her debut as a playwright writing for adults. The play investigates the relationship between a daughter (70’s) and her mother (90’s). The two of them are living in dependence and when the attic is to be emptied for boxes and old memories,…
Read moreALTITUDE 3200
ALTITUDE 3200 refers to the above-sea-level elevation of the French mountain retreat where most of this film takes place. An idealistic sandwich-board man joins his equally high-minded friends on a weekend excursion. Their hopes for rest and relaxation are dashed when a group of young girls take refuge in their…
Read moreAM KÖNIGSWEG
In Elfriede Jelinek’s satire on a US president, a blind seer attempts to decode the elected one in the light of the Old Testament, Greek mythology, German philosophy, Freudian psychology, The Third Reich, large-scale capitalism and right-wing populism.
Read moreAM SCHWARZEN SEE
Eddie and Cleo run a rural brewery with an ailing economy. Johnny is bank manager in a small provincial town, and his wife, Katie, has a weak heart. The couples meet for the first time four years after their adolescent children, Nina and Fritz, fell in love and drowned in…
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Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and an Oscar for Best Movie, this provocative work weaves a confrontation between mediocrity and genius into a tale of breathtaking dramatic power. In the court of the Austrian Emperor, Antonio Salieri is the established composer. Enter the greatest musical genius of…
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This is a modern French boulevard-comedy. A jealous husband tests the loyalty of his wife during a masked ball at a Renaissance palace in Florence.
Read moreAMEDÉE OU COMMENT S’EN DEBARRASSER
Amédée, or How to Get Rid of It (1954), (Original French title, Amédée ou comment s’en débarrasser) is a play written by Eugene Ionesco based on his earlier short story entitled “Oriflamme”. It is about a playwright named Amédée and his wife Madeleine, a switch board operator. They discuss how…
Read moreAMERICA IN ONE ROOM
When eight strangers receive an invitation to the America in One Room event in 2019, promising robust discussions on a wide range of social and political topics, sparks fly, tempers flare, and comedy abounds. At a time when everyone thinks they’re right, it will take more than political debate to…
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Two actors, who were “America’s Sexiest Couple” on a popular ‘90s sitcom reunite for the first time in 25 years. They face a lifetime of unresolved issues, longings, resentments, and regrets. Plus, the network wants to reboot the show. Career and personal aspirations collide. Professionally and personally, where do they…
Read moreAMERICAN BUFFALO
In a Chicago junk shop three small-time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection. Its existence came to light when the collector found a valuable “buffalo nickel” in the shop. The three plotter-punks fancy themselves as businessmen pursuing the legitimate concerns of free enterprise. In reality they…
Read moreAMERICAN CLOCK, THE
A brilliantly theatrical, kaleidoscopic view of America during the early years of the Depression. At the centre of the action are the Baums, a wealthy family whose fortune has vanished in the stock market crash but whose story is amplified and illuminated by brief glimpses of other characters’ lives. Moving…
Read moreAMERICAN PILOT, THE
An American pilot crashes in an unnamed devastated country and is found by a local peasant. Should the inhabitants of the town help him, kill him or use him in a dangerous war-game with the enemy? The play is one of the cleverest political plays ever written. It deals with…
Read moreAMERICAN PROM
Set in a small-town middle American town called Principal, this is the story of teenage best friends Jimmy T. and Kia B. Jimmy wants to take Kia to prom, but it’s complicated. Jimmy is white and Kia is black, and Principal has been holding racially segregated proms for de- cades.…
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Ricky is a cold-blooded German-American contract killer. After serving in Vietnam he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects his old neighborhood with his childhood accomplice Franz Walsch, and pays a short visit to his mother and doting…
Read moreAMES MORTES, LES
Adamov have done his adaptation of the novel to a story with many comic points and powerful farce elements, but is still maintaining the bitter satire over the past Russian bureaucracy’s false piety and decadence.
Read moreAMONG UNBROKEN HEARTS
Ray left the northern Scotland years ago to start a new life down south. With his best friend, he returns to where it all started – to Chaimig, the man who loved him as a son and to the memory of a time when promises where kept. “A truly impressive…
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This play expands over 16 years and begins with a confrontation between the world famous actress Esme Allen and her daughter Amy’s boyfriend Dominic. She despises the, from her point of view, synthetic film industry that he nurtures. He, on the other hand, finds her kind of theatre outdated and…
Read moreAN DER ARCHE UM ACHT
News reaches a pair of penguins that a great flood is coming to destroy the earth and that they are the only two penguins who have been chosen to board Noah’s Ark. They decide, however, to smuggle their friend aboard in a suitcase, and a wild forty-day journey ensues.
Read moreAN EDUCATION
Rainy England of the 1960s: 16-year old Jenny dreams of a life as a sophisticated, Parisian woman, but, in reality, she lives with her parents and attends a girls’ school. When she meets Simon – a charming hedonist and 20 years her senior – and her lust for life arouses…
Read moreAn Eloquent Fugitive Slave Flees to Ireland
An Eloquent Fugitive Slave Flees to Ireland imagines Frederick Douglass’s meditations on freedom and bondage during his historic visit to Ireland. His encounters with white women are particularly complex as they compare how their two nations oppress or empower them.
Read moreAN ENGLISH TRAGEDY
This play is the story of the young British fascist John Amery, who was arrested and charged with high treason in 1945 after making broadcasts for the Nazis. The trial was a sensation at the time, as Amery was the son of Leo Amery, a member of Winston Churchill’s wartime…
Read moreAN INSPECTOR CALLS
Written at the end of the Second World War, and set before the First, An Inspector Calls is a brilliantly compelling and haunting thriller. It is also one of the country’s most popular plays which, in Stephen Daldry’s superb production, has now been hailed by The Daily Mail as a…
Read moreANARCHIE IN BAYERN
A political sci-fi taking place in Bayern after the revolution has won and a socialistic republic has been proclaimed….
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The scene is Paris in the early 1920s. A female would-be suicide is rescued by Russian expatriate Yul Brynner. Brynner’s motives are far from altruistic; together with a group of Russian cohorts, he hopes to pass her off as Princess Anastasia, the daughter of the late Czar Nicholas. If the…
Read moreAND BJÖRK, OF COURSE…
A black comedy about a self-help group, group therapy and national feeling. In this crazy and spirited play, Thorsteinsson exposes the neuroses and complexes in a group of people who believes in happiness. The play was a great success in Reykjavik and Theater der Zeit announced it to be among…
Read moreAND SO TO BED
A funny and burlesque comedy about Samuel Pepys and one of his amorous adventures like it could be imagined told in his famous diary. This light 17th century pastiche, in which the music is well composed, makes the play an enchanting and special experience.
Read moreAND TELL SAD STORIES OF THE DEATH OF QUEENS
Candy is a wealthy, flamboyant homosexual man who has brought home a young, beautiful heterosexual sailor. After divorcing his husband through 17 years he lacks love in his life and whilst he scuttles about the young Adonis, he turns into the drag he is. The young sailor is looking for…
Read moreAND THE WORLD GOES ROUND
3 F / 2 M Full-length play in two acts 1 Set Featuring favourites from CABARET, CHICAGO, KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN and more, the play is a celebration of the work of the song writing team of John Kander & Fred Ebb. Their collaboration began in 1963 and over the…
Read moreAND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Based on the 1939 Agatha Christie mystery novel, this play takes place on a small island off the English coast. Ten men and women are lured by one Mr. Owen to spend a weekend on the island with him and his wife, but when the guests arrive they find out…
Read moreAND THEN THERE WERE NONE – opera version
Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony…
Read moreAND THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
The play is about fear and negation. Ruby is its hero, Sigfrid and Grandpa its conscience, Clarence and Lakme its victims It is also a play about choice: the choice of evil, which is a constant, over chaos, which is not necessarily a good. It is a tragedy of intelligence
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“WELCOME to the building, God dammit.” COOPERATIVE is the portrayal of a small housing cooperative, where everyone gets along (externally) and is trying to maintain a good atmosphere; despite residents who parties too much (against regulations); despite vigilantes; despite grumblers; despite rats in the basement; despite bicycle shed issues; despite…
Read moreAnders Berglund
Anders Berglund (born 1948 in Stockholm) is a Swedish composer, cunductor, pianist and musician. In the mid 70’s he was a member of the band Blue Swede. He has arranged and written the music for several films and musicals.
Read moreAnders Jacobsson
Anders Jacobson (b. 1963) is a Swedish writer, who has written youth novels and TV-series together with his cousin Sören Olsson. Furthermore the two cousins have written pop music together in their band Hemliga byrån.
Read moreAnders Rønnow Klarlund
Anders Rønnow Klarlund (b. 1971) is a Danish film director. Klarlund made his debut with his experimental film The Eighteens (1996) and in 1999 followed the occult thriller Possessed. In 2004 Klarlund directed the well- reviewed puppet-film Strings, which by others led to his receipt of the Citizen Kane Award.…
Read moreAnders Thomas Jensen
Anders Thomas Jensen (b. 1972) was already interested in film in his early teen-years. In grammar school he met and teamed up with Tomas Villum Jensen and from 1996-1998 he wrote three short films: Ernst and the light, Wolfgang and Election Night, which all were nominated for an Oscar, the…
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Rights available to Denmark only. The republic of Andorra is invaded by totalitarian forces. The populace capitulates to the anti-Semitism of the aggressor and betrays Andri, the foundling son of the local schoolmaster. But Andri it seems is not a Jew at all. Andorra explores the mechanism of racism with…
Read moreAndré Obey
André Obey was a French dramatist. He was born 8 May 1892 in Douai. Between 1931 and 1933 he wrote four plays for the Théâtre de Vieux-Colombier, winning the Brieux prize for LA BATAILLE DE LA MARNE in 1931. He died 14 April 1975.
Read moreAndreas Garfield
Andreas Garfield (1976) is a Danish playwright, who achieved prominence with his debut play “Home Sweet Home,” which was a sensation in 2007 when it premiered at Teater Grob in Copenhagen, a well-known venue for experimental theater and new work. Since then, Teater Grob has toured the play around Denmark.…
Read moreAndrew Bovell
Andrew Bovell was born at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and currently lives in Soth Australia. His SWGIE award-winning play SPEAKING IN TONGUES (1996) has been seen throughout Australia as well as in Europe and the US and Bovell adapted it for the screen as LANTANA (2001). Both the play and screenplay…
Read moreAndrew Hannan
Andrew Hannan comes from Plymouth, England. From 1977 to 1980, he studied music at the Oxford University and has lived since 1983 as a freelance composer, arranger, pianist, musical director and songwriter in Berlin. He worked in Berlin at the Neukölln Opera (“Bizet Lounge – Die Perlen Fischer”, “Cox +…
Read moreAndrew Lloyd Webber
When Sunset Boulevard joined School Of Rock, Cats and The Phantom Of The Opera on Broadway in February 2017, Andrew Lloyd Webber became the only person to equal the record set in 1953 by Rodgers and Hammerstein with four Broadway shows running concurrently. Other musicals he has composed include Aspects…
Read moreAndri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason (1973) is an Icelandic writer born in Reykjavik, who has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays and songs. He is the co-director of the documentary film Dreamland. His work has been published or performed in more than 20 countries. His novel, “LoveStar”, was chosen “Novel of…
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The Perceval Brothers adaptation of ANDROMAQUE had its German opening at the Berlin Schaubühne, starring Jutta Lampe. The myth’s complicated structure and existential themes seem thought-provoking, since every narrative development leads to disaster.
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9 F / 11 M / Extras 6 Sets Book by Trevor Peacock, Music by Alan Price, Lyrics by Alan Price and Trevor Peacock This exuberant musical, with a delightful score, conjures up the timeless dream world of work shy, beer-swilling Andy Capp, known the world over from Reg Smythe’s…
Read moreANEMI – UNGDOMSHEMMET LYCKAN
A seemingly realistic play which changes genre towards the end, developing into a surreal thriller. Five troubled teenagers are placed in a community home against their will. Mysteriously, one of the girls disappears, then another and finally one of the boys. One SMS hints at suicide. In the end they…
Read moreANGEL
ANGEL is inspired by the story of a modern legend: a female sniper – the Angel of Kobane – who held ISIS in check for over a year in war-torn Syria, killing more than 100 extremists: A young female law student, Rehana, dreams of becoming a lawyer like William Shatner…
Read moreAngela Betzien
Angela Betzien is a multi award winning writer and a founding member of independent theatre company Real TV; her work has toured widely across Australia and internationally. Belvoir Theatre’s production of Angela’s play The Dark Room won the 2011 Sydney Theatre Award for Best New Australian work and was also…
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