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In Brian Friel’s powerful drama, set in Ballybeg Hall the decaying home of retired District Justice O’Donnell, the O’Donnell children gather to celebrate a wedding but stay to attend a funeral. Suffused with loving humour, delicate irony and exquisite sadness, Friel’s story of three sisters and their eccentric brother explores…

Well-constructed and often performed American stage adaptation of Jules Verne’s remarkable classic about the daring Phileas Fogg, who puts his entire fortune on the line in a bet that it is possible to travel around the world in 80 days. Together with his faithful servant Passepartout, he embarks on a…

This play exists both as radio play and a comic drama. In 1972 an elderly avant-garde artist is murdered, leaving his two friends suspecting each other. To reveal why, successive scenes flashback toward the 1920s and then progress back to 1972. Each of three was infatuated with Sophie. Before she…

Christoffer was born into the Danish upper class as the fourth generation in a family which owns the biggest steel plant in the country. He lives in Stockholm and is happily married to Maria when his father suddenly commits suicide. Against Maria’s will, Christoffer succumbs to his mother’s pressure and…

Two doctors, a mother and daughter. The mother is a respected, experienced medic at a pharmaceutical firm. She loses her position one day when she refuses to continue covering up an obvious deficiency in a medicament on behalf of the firm. Her daughter works in a hospital and specializes in…

AS IS focuses on the effect AIDS, then a fairly new pandemic, has on a group of friends living in New York City.

The play concerns a group of young women who, in order to survive in the big city, abide to violence, whilst carrying a most unrealistic dream of ‘getting’ enough money, to be able to go to Bali.

Devlin and Rebecca, a couple in their forties, are having a rather tense conversation because he demands her to answer his questions about one of her former lovers and their sadomasochistic relationship, where one of their rituals meant that she had to kiss his fists and then ask him to…

Askeladden is the most known character in Norwegian fairytales, and is featured in many tales. He is the son of poor smallholders, has two arrogant older brothers and is always set to manage the fire and dig in the ashes, thus the name Askeladden. (Aske = Ashes) However, he is…

”Once upon a time, there were three princesses who were never allowed to go outside because it had been foretold that if they went out before the youngest turned 15, the troll would come get them …”. This is how the fairy tale about the three beautiful princesses who were…

This is a real Cinderella tale about the girl Mille who dreams of becoming a rock star, and her good friend Topper the rock’n’roll fairy, who comes to her rescue in the struggle against the evil family members. A musical in a GREASE-like environment, loaded with young love, rock music…

Disney took away the ashes from Cinderella’s cheek and made the fairytale romantic and pink. In the brothers Grimm and Astrid Nielsen’s fairytale Cinderella’s way to the prince and half the kingdom is far more evil. This is the story about the young girl, who has to fight for love…

In the opening scene of this comedy, a writer meets the ghost of Franz Kafka, which sets off an existential chain of events forcing the cast to confront the meaning of life. Through a series of hilarious random encounters, the play questions whether we can understand our existence or is…

This is the incredible story of Antonio. Suffering from a very serious disease Antonio is unable to recognise people’s faces – even the faces of his nearest and dearest. One day, after an operation which seems to have healed his body, but certainly not his soul, he takes shelter from…

4 F / 15 M / Choir 24 sets This is yet another English hit musical by the same people who wrote Phantom of The Opera and it has achieved great success, for several seasons in London’s West End. The action takes place in France during the years following the…

With her dramatization of the Brothers Grimm’s CINDERELLA Heleen Verburg manages to move the story to an everyday context without spoiling the fairytale. The songs in the play makes this theatrical version a small musical.

An absurd commentary on the whole question of terrorism and an exhaustive study of politics and wallpaper: A pensioner is going to have his council flat repapered and for this job he has hired two self-employed workmen of a humanistic disposition. However the elder of the two men turns out…

Ata is small and brave, but not sure whether she wants to be a boy or a girl. Carrying nothing else than her bearskin she sets out on a journey from childhood to adulthood. The play is inspired by the mythological figure Atlanta and the legendary young runner Lilly Axster.…

Lanoye builds this story about war victims on the Trojan War. Contains elements from Aeschylus’ and Euripides’ tragedies, but also speeches about the Iraqi war held by George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld are included. The abuse of absolute power is personified by Agamemnon. His war rhetoric leaves no space for…

This is an unconventional play. The play introduces Anne who is described in 17 different ways throughout the play: Like an advertisement; a car that has it all; a media flip; a porn show; a terrorist; a suicide candidate; a nice and polite girl who rebels and uses an awful…

With AU BORD, the French writer Claudine Galea investigates the conditions between victim and executioner and looks at the American soldier Lynndie England, who became world famous in the torture scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison. The text investigates who Lynndie is, how she could use torture and what it…

After uncle’s funeral the father announces to his son and wife that he has news, bad and bad. The first one, he will leave his wife, the second that his son is actually adopted. In comes a distant cousin with his wife, to whom said father says he has some…

Ferdinand Vanek is a playwright and on the blacklist. Instead of the pen, he lifts heavy beer barrels at a brewery. One day he obtains an audience of the master brewer and is offered a job as chairman. But what are the advantages and what are the circumstances? And who…

The author of a musical tries, with the help of a singer, to arouse the impresario’s interest in his work. They struggle desperately to inform the impresario of their colossal ambitious ideas – unfortunately without luck.

The story takes place at a 5-star wellness hotel. Dieter is a successful washing powder manufacturer and self-made-man who wants to give his mistress, Mary, a very special gift that requires little persuasion. The doctor and the private hospital owner, Lothar, and his right hand, Emilie, want something from Dieter…

Brecht wrote DER AUFHALTSAME AUFSTIEG DES ARTURO UI within three weeks during exile in Finland in 1941. The play is set in Chicago. In this comic parable Hitler is presented in the figure of Arturo Ui, a small time gangster who tries to take over Chicago’s green groceries trade. Arturo’s…

In the middle of Germany, in the city of Mustacheberg, live Small Mouth, Large Mouth and Tongue Shock. Small Mouth and Large Mouth get married, but after the wedding Big Mouth shows out to be a tyrant. With the help of Toungue Shock Small Mouth is liberated from Large Mouth.

A play about social democratic self-righteousness and abuse of this.

One of the most dramatic and critically acclaimed plays on Broadway in 2007, and a vital portrait of the good and worst sides of a dysfunctional American family. When the Weston’s patriarch passes away on a warm summer night, the family gathers at the family home in Oklahoma, where hidden…

A dynamic intern messes up the routines at the National Cultural Archives, and an older colleague finds herself unimportant. The competition between these two women evolves into the absurd until the initial positions are reversed. An entertaining and complex tragicomedy about gender roles, working life, loneliness, conflicts between generations and…

Lemon, a reclusive young woman with an unspecified chronic illness, sits in her apartment reading books about Nazism and reliving her life story. But as she tells the audience, that life story consists mostly of stories she herself was told in childhood by “Aunt Dan,” a family friend. In flashback…

The story of Mame Dennis, a well-to-do woman who lives in New York at the peak of the 1920s. She become the guardian of her nephew, Patrick. The ten-year-old needs his aunt, and this is something new for Mame — to be needed. It changes her life and brings her…

How would it be, if a woman, let’s say a 60-year-old woman, who calls herself Edith Bauklamm, all of a suddan becomes an audience to her own life, which she hasn’t been able to live? Her life becomes a game and the helper is called Alfred, who shows up in…

The colored Danish footballer Darcy is to bring a football club up from the depths and contribute to them start winning again. But in the city there is a group are working on a foreigners-free zone. The conflict with Darcy is inevitable. In the group are Ado, Pampel, Udo and…

A ruthless entrepreneur drives his guide and a coolie across the desert with wares in an effort to beat the competition. When the coolie is murdered, there is a semblance of justice in the tribunal scene when the judge rules in favour of the entrepreneur in defiance of evidence to…

AUSTRALIA is inspired by a true story. The play is about the pregnant teacher Coco, who’s pregnant and is forced to deliver her child behind bars, since the father of the child is Coco’s 13-year-old student, Billy. Coco asks Billy’s best friend Karl to stay after class in order to…

Eloi, a young, sexually repressed postal worker, resides in New Orleans with his mother, a practical woman who runs a boarding house. Though he struggles for rationality, Eloi sees the city as an intolerable hotbed of depravity – and he longs for the purification of fire.

An elderly married couple named Manny and Ceil live a Spartan existence in a cabin in the woods, even though they are financially well-off due to Manny’s canny stock market investments. For over a half century, Ceil has taken care of Manny, indulging his quirks and turning the bucolic cabin…

The play that raises the question if two individuals eventually can become one. If so, what happens when one party dies? Does the other party die as well? Who can claim that love doesn’t last forever? André and Madeleine has been together for more than 50 years and their daughters,…

Wendell goes to Italy to pick up his father’s body after an automobile accident. He soon finds that his self-righteous elderly father had actually been having an affair with a woman for the past ten years. They were known as the model romantic couple at the hotel. The conservative Wendell…

This sparkling Tony Award-winning musical is about Princeton, a lively young man who recently graduated from the university and is coming to New York with big dreams and few cash. He quickly discovers that the only district he can afford to live in is Avenue Q – even though the…

The play is set in the post-World War 1 period. A priest, suffering from amnesia, turns out to have a double, a ruthless gangster, who kidnaps him in order to have an alibi for his own committed crimes. The two destinies are wrapped up in each other and it becomes…

A warm, black comedy about love, loss, courage, art and war. The two characters, Carmela and Paulino, are a vaudeville comedy duo, who have accidentally wandered across military lines and have fallen into the hands of Franco’s fascists troops during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). They’re forced to put on…

A man stands by the sea side throwing his written papers into the water as if he wanted to wind up part of his life. A woman aims a gun at him as if she were threatened by him. The chance meeting develops into a passionate exchange in a film-noirish…

AZ INTERJ (HIS MASTER’S VOICE) is István Eörsis dramatic confrontation with his mentor, Georg Lukács, and his own dreams and misunderstandings. An absurd documentary play full of humour, irony, tenderness but also sharpness and contrasts, when it comes to the big questions in life.

In the kindergarten, The Apple, everyone is embraced by the nursery leader, Ruth, she arranges gatherings and cosiness. However, after an ‘Apple-parents-party’ goes a little out of hand, the parents start to doubt Ruth’s intentions and education. Slowly The Apple starts to rot and the situation becomes more and more…

Written while he was a university student, BAAL was Bertolt Brecht’s first full-length play and remains one of his most audacious and shocking. The story traces the decline of a drunken and dissolute poet who rejects the conventions and trappings of polite society. Baal roams the countryside, womanizing and brawling.…

In Bambiland, Jelinek already addressed issues of the war against Iraq. Babel goes on to question its premises and after-effects and circles around the links between violence, sexuality and religion in three monologues. It is a journey into the abysses of humankind and into its collective subconscious, which never ceases…

BABEL is a dark comedy set in the near future. Two couples are having trouble getting pregnant and the lengths they go to in order to have a baby raises the specter of eugenics, explores the societal value of a baby, and asks us what we are willing to risk…

BABY follows a group of young people on the edge of society: Sonja, Nova, Leni, Eddy, Susi, Ivan, Ric, the married couple, Cadett and Marc and the transvestite Daisy. In a episodical scenes, the characters are presented in a line of fatal situations: murder, suicide and desertion … A hard-hitting…

A couple of film stars visit their author and expose him to sophistic sarcasm during their merciless 2 hours of conversation. This makes the audience tremble with laughter and shiver because of the play’s hypocritically half world of cynical human view.

Two parents, Helen and John, who are completely unprepared for parenthood, bring home their newborn baby. To their rescue comes Nanny – who enters their apartment as if by magic. John and Nanny have an affair and Helen takes the baby and leaves. Years later, the baby – now a…

A mouse caught in a mouse trap sets three flatmates discussing the meaning of life, death, their yuppie lifestyle as well as the brutal fact about their own place in the food-chain.

Rock fans Janis and Razz are waiting anxiously for a glimpse of their idol, Stax Jackson, although Razz’s brother is more interested in his skateboard. Stax is really gorgeous, or is he? And who is Brian Cronk? Cannon-the-roadie reveals some very interesting information. This comedy focuses warmly on the generation…

A part of STOP, YOU’RE KILLING ME, three one-act plays by James Leo Herlihy. Bad Bad Jo-Jo is the funniest and the most grotesque of the plays. A successful film writer who gives his audiences what they want-murder and camp – is visited by couple of fans. In the course…

Johannes (played by a woman or a nonbinary person) hacks his journal, where it appears that the Center for Gender Identity does not think he appears masculine enough, and denies him the hormone treatment he so fervently desires. One day, a chat box appears from the sender Mephisto. The unknown…

A pair of brilliantly satirical plays that offer a biting and hilarious study of two very singular sanitariums, one where bad habits are suppressed, the other where they are indulged.

About the complexities of modern urban life, focusing on themes such as isolation, interpersonal relationships and the omnipresent feeling of being overwhelmed by crisis-ridden surroundings. The play is a series of fragmented scenes that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction.

The scene is a small southern town where Colonel and Christine Penmark live with their daughter, Rhoda. Little Rhoda Penmark is the evil queen of the story. On the surface she is sweet, charming, full of old-fashioned graces, loved by her parents, admired by all her elders. But Rhoda’s mother…

Somewhere in a thinly habited rural area Baddi´s garage is still operating although the customers are getting fewer and fewer as the years pass. Baddi, a widower, lives there with his daughter and son and Raggi, an apprentice, who is not the cleverest one but has a way with cars.…

The Big Bad Wolf’s in trouble – he’s been ripped out of his story and thrown in jail for being too good at being bad. Along with fellow offenders Rumpelstiltskin, The Ugly Sisters and Captain Hook, the Big Bad Wolf is determined to find out who’s decided to change the…

BEHIND THE FENCE plays out on a residential street – a place where prejudice rules from behind the hedges. The unspoken suspicion about this and that grows and eventually becomes reality. The chatter centres around the young couple moving in; it advertises the car, people prefer; it investigates the house…

This is a short monologue of the life of the Baglady and her ring. Written in 1985 and produced at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin the same year.

In his first work written directly for the stage, the author of THE KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN created a hilarious and shocking clash of desire and reality. Into the home of a bourgeois family come two strangers on their way to a masquerade ball. The masters of the house…

An American two-hander that takes place in a California trailorpark, where an umemployed and drunken female bartender lives in a trashed trailor. She believes to be in possession of a real Pollock and calls for a sophicated male art expert from New York to estimate the painting. Two worlds collide.…

An adaptation of William Butler’s novel A DANISH GAMBIT relating the struggle of a priest trying to convince a man in a death cell that he should live.

In this play the meaning or perhaps the tendency is a criticism of society similar to the theatre of Bertolt Brecht. A word often reappearing is surplus value, meaning the bottom line of the work done. The workers do not get anything in return. Instead it all ends up in…

Genet’s horrifying vision has aroused violent controversy; the play has been called “a theatrical experience as startling as anything since Ibsen’s revelation about syphilis”. The setting is a brothel in the midst of a revolution that has wiped out all the real holders of power except the Chief of Police,…

BALKAN IS NOT DEAD describes the religious and cultural clashes in Southern Europe after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the inter-war period. Osman Bay, a well-to-do Turkish landowner falls in love with the woman, whose man he has cold-bloodedly murdered, which sends him out on an emotional journey.…

2 Acts / 1M, 2F and musician(s) Lois is a textile worker in a small country town. Life for Lois revolves around the factory, the supermarket and home. The play is about Lois’ struggle to free herself from the traps that bind working mothers. Lois wins her struggle but not…

DE BALLADE VAN GARUMA (The ballad of Garuma) is a piece for musical theatre that focuses on the rise and fall of a popular hero. The script is written in the form of a story within a story, with Amaranta as the narrator. She also plays her own role as…

BALLE, MALLE, HUPE UND ARTUR follows Artur and his friends’ adventures.

This deeply moving play is a poignant examination of the resistance of ex-ballerina, Fdith, to be parted from her autistic daughter, Malin against strong opposition from family and friends. Fdith has built a language of imagery and ballet-related movement which enables Malin and herself to communicate. Now circumstances force her…

Show for two female performers about man’s wish to fly: From the Myth of Icarus and Daedalus, the Montgolfier Brothers (the inventors of the hot air balloon,) and the world after the Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. A critically acclaimed play about the power of possibility. The text calls…

This is a messenger’s report on the media’s coverage of war. Elfriede Jelinek reflects not only on the actual events of the Iraq war, her own attitude to these and television reports, she also reflects on the foundation of Western consciousness. “Literature or literary transformation using the world as a…

The past knocks at her door, a young man forces his way inside and demands answers to his questions. Why did she use her name to clear of the old Nazi professor? The memories hunt her, she discovers herself as the young Jew and smart student, who, with a beating…

The play deals with the living conditions of two children that sell bananas in South Africa.

With this play Peter Ustinov traces a great military family through three generations in reverse order.

The play tells the story about the effects of a murder in the North East in the community.