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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…

3 F / 3 M Musical for kids 2 Sets This is a musical for kids, about the princess that would not laugh.

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…

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!

“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…

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.…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

A full length play for 11 characters by the author of A TOUCH OF THE SUN.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A man is thrown out of civilization. He sees red, but he doesn’t hit back…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

A play for four women by the author of NAIVES HIRONDELLES.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

Airport is an exploration of identity and language set in the glossy world of international travel.

In Fassbinder’s version of AJAX the hero isn’t ridiculous but rather tragically. A strong musical version of Sophocle’s tragedy.

Ensemble: Captain of soldiers, soldiers, attendants, young artists, tributaries, first stonemason, second stonemason, peasants.

Ellen is the executive psychiatrist at a hospital, a well educated middle-aged woman with a father fixation and a little experience of love. Jim is a nurse, recently divorced and obsessed with music. Irene has been in hospital because of a depression. Tage is also hospitalized but with signs of…

Sebastian’s musicalversion of the famous story about Aladdins adventures, where he meets the spirit of the lamp, who can bring him to whereever he wants and give him all the treasures of the world. But the good things do not always come without problems. Additional music by Morten Kærså, better…

This play consists of 8 one acts, two longer ones and 6 short sketches. They are played by four actors – as characters in their 30’ies and 40’ies – forming two couples, at least most of the time. In ALARMS, a married couple visits another couple and slowly they are…

Tora has been diagnosed with an incurable disease and so every one around her is preparing for the worst. However, after one year medical science has come up with a cure which means that people have to adapt to the fact that Tora will survive. A most gripping two-hander for…

Albert has a degree in philosophy and with a job as bridge painter has a new perspective on life up high. Through CPA’s and programmed efficiency, he replaces four painters and the bridge is all his. He also has to get married – but that’s another story. He’s bothered by…

A radio version is also available An early play about an amnesiac holed up in the fantasy world of Mickey Spillane. The play explores the relationship between speech and thought in the shaping of perceptions. Published by Currency Press 1983

It is both logical and surprising that the same man, who adapted Dickens’ ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ with great success, brings this impressive and grand stage production to life. Albert Speer (1905 –1981) was Hitler’s favourite architect, master builder and later on, his War Minister. During the Nürnberg Trials, he succeeded in…

Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine. Albertine at 30 is recuperating in the country after viciously beating her 11-year-old daughter; Albertine at 40 is a virago at war with the world; at 50 she has…

Taking a starting point in Lewis Carroll’s story, Laura Wade has turned the Victorian Alice into a modern 12-year-old girl, who is gifted with a lively imagination and a very strange family. Her 17-year-old brother, Jow, is dead and everyone is gathered at his funeral. Slowly Alice disappears into the…

Alice falls and falls and falls through a rabbit hole and finds herself in a room with many doors. The smallest door leads to a secret garden, but Alice is to big to get through the door. With help from a talking rabbit, Alice makes her way through and all…

USA’s great author Henry James and his brother the well-known psychologist and philosopher William James had a sister, Alice James, who sank into depression at an early age and built up the courage to commit suicide her whole life…She died from cancer age 43. This play is about the woman,…

On a glorious summer’s afternoon, young Alice happens upon a smartly dressed white rabbit looking at his watch and muttering ‘I’m too late!’ This not being an everyday occurrence, she follows him down a nearby rabbit hole – and fails into Wonderland. On her weird and wonderful journey to find…

The monologue is a surreal stream-of-consciousness and a fantasy about all the things that aren’t told in Lewis Caroll’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND. An orgy takes place at the tea-party and ends up with Alice being split between society’s female ideal and her own after her ‘ride’ (sexual debut) with a…

On a glorious summer’s afternoon, young Alice happens upon a smartly dressed white rabbit looking at his watch and muttering ‘I’m too late!’ This not being an everyday occurrence, she follows him down a nearby rabbit hole – and fails into Wonderland. On her weird and wonderful journey to find…

ALLIGATOR MOUTH, TADPOLE ASS is a twistedly queer memory play about a troubled man in 1986 looking for answers at Miss Chelley’s Fortune Shop in NYC. Instead of the answers he craves, he connects with a young man working there whose memory is constantly triggered by their incredibly intense connection.…

This stage play is set in a radio drama studio in 1950 and deals with the activities of the staff of a radio drama department. Initially we seem to be watching these executives acting in a radio play, the play of their own office lives in front of us. In…

SURE THING. Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the way to falling in love. (1 man, 1 woman.) WORDS, WORDS, WORDS recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing…

Two people are depressed. They are tired of everyday life, of Disney’s stereotypical ideals, of the financial crises and of the fact that growth is the only answer which politicians know of. They long for real adventures about life and death, for barricades to defend and last but not least:…

The play was written in 1947 – and the first great success of Arthur Miller’s supremely influential career – is a compelling story of love, guilt and the corrupting power of greed. Joe Keller is alleged to have supplied World War II fighter planes with defective engines, leading to the…

The old and fat Mrs. Rooney is headed for the little Irish railway station to collect her blind husband. On the way she meets several men of her own age and has a little conversation with them. One of them gives her a ride, despite the difficulties of getting her…

The Reduced Shakespeare Company has compressed Shakespeare in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Abridged), cut the Bible to the bone with THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD (Abridged). In addition, they have now collected 83 of the world’s great classics in a pocket book format – naturally done so in…

On his fiftieth birthday, a professor has decided to commit suicide because he believes that he has got nothing left to live for. Nevertheless, he is constantly disturbed in his deed by friends and colleagues all seeking his advice and support during their own hardship. Certainly a very witty comedy,…

Step into the little Swedish village of Bullerbyn, where everyday life is filled with play, imagination, and warm friendship. Here live the children Lisa, Lasse, Bosse, Britta, Anna, and Olle, and together they experience everything from school days and holidays to clever inventions and mischievous adventures. Astrid Lindgren’s beloved story…

This is a grim and mysterious “comedy” about the essence of love and life. Iben has left Frans. Now Iben is with Mikael, who is also with Tine sometimes; Tine who is now with Frans. Nobody is any happier, but what else can they do? The old people have not…

The First Part of the Great Saga from Northern Jutland, HENVENDELSE ANITA. Anita, 63, has poor mobility and has just been fired from her activation program. Her unemployed son Lars, 44, lives at home and still hasn’t gotten over the death of their dog, Gnags. Anita owes money to both…

A monologue about an old comedian, who used to be met by packed arenas, but now he only fills class rooms, when teaching adult students in comedy, which often tend to be anything but funny…

This long one-act play tells the story of three young leftist intellectuals who get together in both an eccentric and comical situation.

On their daughter’s 40-years birthday, an elderly couple realize that they have finally let her go. Now they sit alone and don’t know what to do with themselves. Furthermore, the TV just broke! A good play for an elderly cast.

Even with the title Urs Widmer places the audience on thin ice with his farce, where murder and robbery is part of the action. Here we follow the Schmitt family, where everyone tries to understand each other, but ends up with a number of misunderstandings…

Anna and Carlos have entered therapy as a final attempt to save their relationship. This becomes the basis of a string of entertaining scenes between a very troubled married couple and a therapist with a challenging task. A hilarious comedy where the sparks fly to all sides.

King Mark and his knight Tristan have sworn on eternal friendship on their way to queen Isolde, but everything changes, when Mark decides to marry Isolde…

There’s hammering rains and floods across the country, and rivers threaten to overflow their banks, but the poet, Kraus, doesn’t take any notice. He is consumed by his writer’s block, only disturbed by his young attractive maid, Asra. Asra, however, is worried about her brother, who she keeps hidden in…

This is an amiable little one-act play about Barbro who feels lonely and is jealous of her new baby brother. For comfort she creates two imaginary friends with whom she has many great and formidable adventures. However, when Barbro’s highest wish comes true in shape of a puppy, she no…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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,…

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…

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.

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…