Vilhelm Topsøe
Vilhelm Topsøe (born 1944) is a Danish lawyer, novelist, playwright, biographer, journalist and politician.
Read moreVILLE DONT LE PRINCE EST UN ENFANT, LA
The play takes place at a Catholic boarding school and follows the friendship between a 14 year old and a 16 year old pupil and the tragic consequences that follow.
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Starting from the saga about the princes who were turned into wild ducks and their sister, the princess who in attempt to keep her life, is forced to weave clothes to them. Jesper Halle has written a riveting and poetic drama which takes place in a remote madhouse in the…
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This monodrama is based on Philip Stephen’s play; VAN GOGH which premiered at The Guthrie Theatre. The story is about two brothers and about Theo van Gogh’s love for his brother – a brother who could be very hard to love. The story is supported by pictures with slides which…
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1873 – Brixton. A breezy young Dutchman has taken a room with a British widow. Three years later he returns to the European continent and takes the first step towards a breakdown, death and immortality. The play has been based on actual events and was proclaimed “one of the best…
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Philip Ridley’s Vincent River is a stark reminder of the continued occurrences of hate crime and homophobic attacks in society. Drawing upon events of his youth and the murder of a friend in the 1980s, Ridley creates two characters trying to come to terms with a death which has resulted…
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This epic play was written in cooperation with the feministic group Monstrous Regiment in 1976 and depicts the destinies of a group of women during the 1600’s witch hunt. Betty from a landowner family is considered to be mad when she refuses to marry. Brawls and envy between neighbors are…
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It is Christmas time in Lönneberga, where Emil and his family are busy with preparations. The Old Cowberry-Maja tells tales of ghosts and werewolves. Inspired by these stories, Emil and his friend Alfred dig a wolf trap. It ends up serving a useful purpose when an old lady who has…
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When Ed and Steve meet old friends for dinner, they’re hot. They’re cooking. They’re on the threshold of a million dollar deal. But tonight they’re not talking money. Tonight they’re here because Mim is coming home. Mim McDermott, ruthless lawyer extraordinaire, is back from a Catholic community in Ireland. She’s…
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An evocative play about Virginia Woolf’s life and relationships with her husband, Leonard, and her lover, Vita Sackville-West.
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Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of…
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A university lecturer fights for his reputation against prejudice and intrigue in a narrow-minded community. Based on the 1950s “Orr” case in Tasmania.
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A comedy about survival and identity in Copenhagen in the 1720’s. 1724: Copenhagen stinks. The contents from the chamber pots flows in the gutters. The atmosphere is characterized by returned war disturbed soldiers, unrestrained cheerfulness and a growing religiousness. Sidsel leaves her illegitimate child in the northern rural part of…
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This play is set in Paraguay of the 1860s during the War of the Triple Alliance, the bloodiest conflict in Latin American history. The megalomaniac President Lopez has married Madame Lynch, a Partisan courtesan. His ignorance and her egotism together bring ruin on the country themselves. Against this violent background…
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In 1956, Gore Vidal wrote this comedic play about humanity’s seeming preoccupation with war and world domination. “Visit to a Small Planet” addresses our fears concerning global and nuclear warfare in a hilarious spoof on alien invasion. When the “alien” Kreton lands his space ship in the middle of an…
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Vienna, 1938: The Nazis have occupied the city. The Jewish psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, is considering whether he should flee to England or not, strongly urged by his daughter Anna. That evening Anna is collected by the Gestapo and Freud’s world is about to fall apart. Suddenly, a stranger enters his…
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In a farmhouse at the edge of Salisbury Plain, a family is falling apart. Stephen can’t afford to put his mother into care; Arthur can’t afford to stop working and look after his wife. When a young stranger moves in to care for Edie as her mind unravels, the family…
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This wonderful play is based on the correspondence between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Not only does it illuminate the friendship and love affair between the two women but concurrently, it offers a fascinating insight in the British elite of the 30’ies. Certainly a play that holds two fantastic female…
Read moreVivian Ellis
Vivian Ellis (1903 – 1996) was an English musical comedy composer best known for the song “Spread a Little Happiness” and the theme “Coronation Scot”.
Read moreVivian Nielsen
VIVIAN NIELSEN (born 1962) graduated from the theatre school of Aarhus Theatre in 1987 as an actress. She has performed at many Danish theatres, and she quickly became known as a versatile actress. Later, she trained as a director with Ralf Långbacka and as a screenwriter with Dara Mark. Today…
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems. Nabokov’s “Lolita” (1955) is frequently cited…
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Based on Aristophanes’ The Birds about the women’s attempt, with the help of the birds, to prevent the men’s armament and devastating wars.
Read moreVOICE OF THE TURTLE, THE
John van Druten’s 3-character play ran for years on Broadway during WW2. It centers on the unexpected weekend of a soldier on leave in NYC and the romantic young actress who shows him the town.
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Dr. Lil is a successful psychiatrist with her own radio show in which she assists listeners with difficult personal problems. A caller with a husky voice identifies himself as Deamon and informs her that he intends to murder a woman. Deeply affected by the call, she decides to go on…
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An early radio play, which describes the amorous intrigues that takes place between four characters: Hélène, Stevan, Nicolas and Anna. The quartet is caught in a multitude of voices and sounds: projections of obsessions, people passing by and sounds of the wide open.
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This is a drama about the longing for intimacy, but also a black portrait of the family as an institution and love as a romanticized lie. The play is set in a cold cellar and sets out as a love triangle – a play within the play – in which…
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Hanna is a fashion photographer and Jiri teaches at the university. Their marriage is in crisis and they are bored of each other. In a park, Jiri meets a young man, Simon, who he falls in love with. Simon also has a secret relationship with Hanna. A love triangle begins…
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The residents of an apartment building fight a deadly battle for status in this blistering satire of class distinction and upward mobility. Will Mrs. Wurm thwart her son’s dreams of becoming an artist…before he bores a hole in her head with a corkscrew? Will Mr. Kovacic finally attain the coveted…
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A turbulent comedy with witty dialogue and quirky characters about three generations of a family.
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Enzensberger’s version of Diderot’s “Rameau’s Nephew” where two persons, an anonymous philosopher and a bizarre, nihilistic bohemian, discusses morality, genius role, eroticism and religion.
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En version of a lesser known Grimm fairytale about a boy, who’s killed and boiled by his stepmother and served for his father. The boy resurrects as bird and finds the magical powder that will liberate his father and sister from the evil stepmother.
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This is a good-humoured caricature of the enterprise in the poultry ministry. What is done there seems completely foolish and useless, yet it is not mad enough for us to not sense a connection to some kind of reality. The characters use all their energy pursuing personal goals and achieving…
Read moreVOYAGE DE MOLIÈRE, LE
Chartes, August 1944, recently liberated from German occupation.The Giraud family have been hairdressers from father to son and so it naturally came to Pierre to take over from his father, killed in a prison camp a year earlier. Marie, his mother, a heroïne of the French Résistance, is in charge…
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The Mary Bryant story begins in the late 1800s, when she is sentenced to seven years deportation to the Botany Bay penal colony. After the eight month journey on board the First Fleet, Mary and her fellow convicts are given the task of building a new world at the polar…
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Ionesco’s final play combines autobiographical material with the hallucinatory quality of his early works. The play is an anxiety driven, autobiographical fantasy revolving around a middle-aged writer who visits a realm where the dead and the living exist plainly with one another. Answers are not forthcoming, and the audience is…
Read moreW. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.
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Leeds who is a selfish, bright student of philosophy enters a bet with his roommate Ward, who constantly brags about his sexual escapades. And so he is to seduce, not entirely without dangerous consequences, the young beautiful wife of one of their professors living in the flat next door. Leeds…
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A sinister con-man, Roar, and two exconvicts, Mike and Carlino, are about to meet their match. They have traced the location of a mysterious doll, which they are much interested in, to the Greenwich Village apartment of Sam Hendrix and his blind wife, Susy. Sam had apparently been persuaded by…
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This is the first play in eight years from the Irish playwright Tom Murphy. The main themes are the same as in his previous works and those of other Irish authors: the homecoming after a life in exile. It also deals with the clashes between the free spirited and the…
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“Is it now? (Brief pause.) I thought I had more time.” A dying man and his humorous, almost improvisational, reflection on life: What are we doing here? Where are we going, how and why? Take a step back, look around and enjoy the simple pleasures of life and each other…
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Kitti Zitti, a young homeless woman, is getting ready for the night in a backyard. From the property she hears beautiful music that puts her in such a high mood, that when she shakes the pillow she makes a kind of doll out of it: a child who wants to…
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A personal and historical tale about life on both sides of the Israeli West Bank barrier, which is four times the length of the Berlin Wall. Published with the monologue BERLIN about the berlin wall.
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This play is an adaptation of John Hersey’s novel about life in Warsaw’s ghetto in the years between 1940 – 43.
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An endearing character player of film and TV also noted for his work as a serious and provocative playwright, Wallace Shawn made his acting debut on stage in his own translation of Machiavelli’s THE MANDRAKE in 1977. He made a brief but indelible first impression on screen two years later,…
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Wallflowering traces the uncertain steps of Cliff and Peg Small, an ordinary couple, as they attempt to save their marriage. One time prize-winning ballroom dancers, they now find themselves out of step with each other, and with the changing values of the world around them. Through the metaphor of dance,…
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Wanda Butternut is the popular host of the hit TV talk show “Wanda’s World,” where kids call in to get advice from Wanda to solve their problems. Wanda is beautiful, confident and always knows what to say…in her fantasy. In real life, Wanda is a middle school girl with a…
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A small group of men are sitting around a table: The handsome Albert, who has a tendency to reject women, Olaf, who is addicted to being high, Rainer, who is a foot fetishist and finally George, who makes bets about his wife’s fidelity. On the other side of the street…
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With an exquisite British feel for what functions and what is effective, Helen Edmundson has dramatized Lev Tolstoj’s mighty epic from the Napoleon wars. Rather than dealing with one general story the plot consists of several parallel stories. We follow the doings, the complexity and development of five Russian families.…
Read moreWAR OF THE ROSES, THE
Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny De Vito starred in the movie based on Warren Adler’s tragicomic novel. Oliver and Barbara Rose have been married for 18 years. Now, Barbara wants a divorce, but when it comes to the house none of them want to give it up. Their lawyers…
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From five perspectives, this radio piece demonstrates the impact of structural violence on the individual. The material is impressions from a trip to Kosovo.
Read moreWarren Casey
Composer Warren Casey is half of the team that created the music for the enduring Broadway hit musical GREASE. The production became a popular film in 1978 and starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
Read moreWarren Coleman
Warren is a writer, director and actor who graduated from the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1979. Writing for film, theatre, television, radio and print Warren has seen much success.
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A sort of Hell or Paradise depending on how you see it, where Ulrich Hub has gathered a number of characters inspired by Brothers Grimm.
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Mr. R. has no reason to complain. He has a meaningful job at an architectural studio, a wonderful wife and a son. He lives in a nice apartment with his family. In the evening the couple watches television and in the weekend the family in laws comes to visit. Everything…
Read moreWAS GESCHAH, NACHDEM NORA IHREN MANN VERLASSEN HATTE ODER STÜTZEN DER GESELLSCHAFT
Ibsen’s “Nora or a Doll’s House and Pillar of Society” form the basis for this very free continuation and modernization of his characters and themes. This “didactic play in the tradition of Brecht” picks up where the original Nora ends: She leaves her husband and her children to set off…
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A critical allegory on Sweden’s position in the build-up to World War Two. It was written in 1939 while Brecht was in exile in Sweden. The play is set in the shop of a male character named Svenson, who is repeatedly visited by a gangster-like figure wanting to purchase iron.…
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A children’s play about pollution. On their holiday in the country side two big city children experience that they get red cheeks of bathing and it’s not a healthy complexion.
Read moreWASTE. A DOCUMENTARY FAIRY-TALE
Entertaining and dramaturgically experimental comedy about the environment and how hazardous waste is recycled or not at all, and where waste is the new valuable asset in a criminal like business world.
Read moreWAT IS ER AN DE HAND MET DANIELA DUÑOZ (WAS IST LOS MIT DANIELA DUÑOZ?)
Early in the morning Daniela Duñoz is arrested by the police. She is suspected of having kidnapped and illegally adopted the three children who lives with her. Before they lived a carefree life in a suburb of Buenos Aires. Now they’re taken in the custody of the authorities and placed…
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The work plays out in 1940 and portrays an idealistic German, Kurt, who flees Hitler’s Germany with his American wife and children and finds sanctuary with his wife’s family in the United States. He hopes for a respite from the dangerous work in which he has been involved, but his…
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A fine monologue for an actress, who skillfully reveals, changing between graveness and humour, how body fixated most women are and also how their self-esteem often dives after an ended love affair.
Read moreWATCHTOWER, THE
Set in a Blue Mountains TB sanitorium from 1939 to 1945. The story of what happens to a group of TB patients who must wait to be cured as the world is engulfed in the second world war. The disease has determined everyone’s lives. Some patients die, others live, and…
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The Water Engine is set in 1934. Its central character, Charles Lang, is a young amateur inventor, who designs an engine that runs on water. He plans to patent it, make a fortune, and live happily ever after with his sister Rita Lang, but his dream begins to unravel when…
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What could be more pleasant than cruising through the picturesque English countryside? This voyage combines the comedy touches that make Ayckbourn one of the world’s best-loved playwrights with a darker thread of menace.
Read moreWE ARE SORRY
Hirdwalls artistic comment on the News of the World scandal. The late British writer Dennis Potter pops up in media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s sleep for a critical dialogue about the case and Murdoch’s dominance in the media world. The title refers to the heading of the letter, where Murdoch apologizes…
Read moreWE HEAR YOU – GRETA THUNBERGS TAL
A montage of Greta Thunberg’s words from her book NO ONE IS TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE – a collection of 11 speeches about the climate crisis and global warming. First performed at Dramaten in January 2020. Authorized by Greta Thunberg.
Read moreWE WILL ROCK YOU
Featuring more than 20 hit Queen songs including “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Killer Queen,” “We Will Rock You,” “Somebody To Love,” “We Are the Champions,” “Don’t Stop Me Now,” and many more, WE WILL ROCK YOU follows two revolutionaries as they try to save rock ‘n’ roll…
Read moreWEDDING IN VENICE, THE
The Wedding in Venice is a comedy set in the 1980s. Cosimo is a flight attendent and apparently a prince. Lady Rosalind Suttor, the doyen of Sydney society, takes him under her wing in the hope that he will marry her daughter Hettie. She does not realise that Cosimo lives…
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