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SPORTCHOR
A choir of players, commentators, managers, coaches and press people talk about the love lives of sportsmen and women’s entry into this last male domain, about rebellion on the field and genuine heroism. It’s about football, media games, society, gender struggle and war.
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How would life look, if it just went on and on? If death failed to rescue us from the vulnerability of eternity? To Uwe, Christiane and Dagmar there is no way out. They have been conceived The Great Egg Sac in the laboratory and have an eternal life. Perhaps this…
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A satire on the modern human being and how life is lived. What’s really going on? Why doesn’t mankind stop up for a second and looks at itself and its environment? Could there be another way to live life and how would life look like if one was more immediate…
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RADIO: SPRING 2 F / 3 M Radio theatre Before Asmussen wrote his debut piece, “CRY” for radio theatre in 1991 he had already written a text for the youth programme “P4 in P1”. The title was: “SPRING” and it was both a radio play and a kind of sound…
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SPRING AWAKENING is a rock musical, which is based on Frank Wedekind’s anti-authoritarian play FRÜHLINGS ERWACHEN from 1891 about a first love’s brutal confrontation with an insensitive and sexually fretful society. The musical explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood with a sharpness and passion that is at the…
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Young Heavenly Critchfield is the girl all the boys want, especially the rich and refined Arthur Shannon, but she’s in love (or lust) with the rough Dick Miles. The epitome of the tragic southern belle, Heavenly struggles to reconcile her sensual yearnings with her societal duty. The play, which takes…
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Anya Reiss was just 17-years-old, when she wrote this family drama, which had such a strong impact on the artistic direction at the Royal Court Theatre that the play was accepted to premiere in 2010. Reiss is the youngest playwright, who has ever had a play staged professionally in London.…
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Rodeo clown Gil can be played by either sex, or even shared by several actors A spurboard is a solid wooden structure on which bareback riders train; it can train muscles and judgment, but it doesn’t buck like a real bronc. Four young people in a rural town in western…
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In a Catholic boys’ boarding school during the Vietnam war a gifted young artist makes a stand against Australia’s involvement in the conflict. His fall from grace divides the school and the people closest to him, particularly the young matron of the school infirmary. Published by Currency Press 1993
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1 M This is a comic-grotesque monodrama about an alcoholic, Irish theatre critic, who falls in love with an actress. This totally makes his life go topsy turvy. As a result, he follows her to London where he becomes a kind of pimp in an environment of modern vampires. His…
Read moreSTÅ FAST (HOLD YOUR GROUND)
Inspired by Svend Brinkmann’s bestseller about avoiding the endeavours to fulfil oneself . Just say no, hell no! Fire your coach and give the never-ending mantra about adaptability the finger. Kamilla Wargo Brekling is supporting professor of psychology Svend Brinkmann’s suggestions to challenge the zeitgeist trends about striving for insight.…
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An actor and an actress, who used to be lovers many years ago, are cast in a revival of a dusty 1930’s melodrama. The play revives their old feelings, and she ends up leaving her husband. But later, when they are cast in a bad new play about a prostitute…
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This is a comedy of wedding-eve nerves set in the loos of a tacky Liverpool club where Dave and Linda, unbeknownst to each other, are having parties.
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Much of the play is set in a shirt factory in St. Louis and chronicles the daily frustrations of white-collar workers who find themselves stuck in dead-end jobs that stifle creativity. Williams’ protagonist, Benjamin Murphy, finds release through frequent trips to the washroom, where he writes poetry, and through a…
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This is a continuation of A BRIEF RESPITE. We are reunited with the same family, only 15 years later. Once again the inner motives of the family are subject of examination. The entrance of the Yuppie, the self-destructive teenager, the mobile phone and the unemployment has had a great effect…
Read moreSTANDING ON MY KNEES
Catherine, a young and promising poet affected with schizophrenia, returns home to her cluttered apartment after a stay in the hospital. Urged on by her publisher she struggles to pursue her art, but the very intensity of thought which this demands brings on her attacks, and the imaginary voices which…
Read moreSTAR IS TORN, A
A STAR IS TORN, is a one-woman cabaret written and performed by Robyn Archer covering various female singers. The show pays a tribute to the great female singers of the past including Bessie Smith, Frances Farmer, Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Janis Joplin and Billie Holiday…. Robyn Archer played A Star…
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A child’s train set magically comes to life and the various engines compete to become the “Fastest – engine in the World”! The underdog, Rusty the Steam tain has little chance until he is inspired by the legend of the “Starlight Express” and ultimately defeats his arch-rivals “Greaseball” and ‘Electra…
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1 F / 2 M Comedy Two fiercely dedicated men endure near-starvation in order to put out a protest magazine in San Francisco. An All-American girl moves into another apartment on the same floor. Her first appearance paying a good-neighbour visit to the combination home and office of the two…
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1955 was a remarkable year in Las Vegas. 4 legendary singing stars were performing in the city at the same time – Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Liberace and Mario Lanza. Including 14 classic songs by these stars, STARSTRUCK presents the joy, heartbreak, sadness, extravagance and drama in the lives of…
Read moreSTATE OF AFFAIRS, A
The play treats its theme of adultery and marriage with a moving and unforgettable compassion. Commitment and betrayal lie at the heart of this entertaining and perceptive comment on human foibles. The play takes the form of four unrelated one-act stories, that are played by the same actors.
Read moreSTATEMENTS AFTER AN ARREST UNDER THE IMMORALITY ACT
In South Africa a coloured slum-school principal and a white librarian are in love – a love prohibited under the state’s Immorality Act. They’re caught and arrested, but the play’s focus is not on the arrest itself but on the couple and the shadow between them – a crippling one…
Read moreSTATION BONNE-NOUVELLE
Boulevard comedy about a woman breaks into a Metro Station to complain to the station master that he is partly responsible for her husband having an affair. Sparkling text for two actors.
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A tragic, but also great comical play about the Danish version of John F. Kennedy – the Danish social democratic prime minister Jens Otto Krag (1914 – 78). This is the story about a charismatic politician’s prime time and fall, the relationship he had with his wife, her mother and…
Read moreSTEAMING
A Turkish bath is the favourite haunt of six ladies. Here they can let down their hair and chat, safe from the men in their lives. When the local male-dominated town council propose tearing down the bathhouse to make room for a library, the ladies band together in opposition. They…
Read moreSTEEL MAGNOLIAS
The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free…
Read moreSTELLA – DAS BLONDE GESPENST VOM KURFÜRSTENDAMM
Stella is 20 when Hitler declares that Berlin will be made “Jew-free” once and for all. Stella is blond, and young and beautiful, and she wants to be a singer in America. Or a film star, like Marlene Dietrich. But the Goldschlag family is not granted a visa. Instead of…
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When their daughter was paralyzed after falling off a pony, Margaret and Frank gave birth to a second child in hopes of using her stem cells for an experimental treatment to help her older sister. STEM examines the horrendous cost to a family after a child makes the ultimate sacrifice…
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In a last attempt to secure voters, politicians in this play decide to go out and meet the public, as for too long they have been hiding inside their bureaucratic fortresses while conveniently closing their eyes to the general discontent. One day, a politician accepts a coffee invitation from a…
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12 F / 1 M This is a comedy about ten women and one man trying to conquer their inhibitions and an overabundance of left feet in a seedy dance studio in North London. An ex-professional chorine tries her hardest to teach the bumbling amateurs some dancing skills for an…
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Using a mixture of biography, autobiography, narration and examples of her works, this play dramatizes the tragicomic life of British poetess Stevie Smith. A narrator comments on the action from one side of the set and from time to time enters to represent various characters.
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This play takes place in Ireland at a mental hospital during the 1930’ies. Here we follow an elderly man, who is lying in bed, while thinking back upon his life as a boy in the countryside, as well as upon his time as a policeman in Dublin. It certainly offers…
Read moreSTILL LIFE
2 F / 1 M drama Shaped by the author from conversations with the people whose experience she sets forth, the play explores the way in which Vietnam has affected three lives: a Marine veteran; his estranged wife; and his mistress. Seated at a table, with slides used occasionally to…
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A family gathers over a weekend to say goodbye to the matriarch Esther, who suffers from ALS. With the help of her husband Poul and with her children’s approval, she has decided to commit assisted suicide by the end of the weekend before the disease worsens. As the moment grows…
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Sabine’s son, Philip, has travelled to Syria in order to fight for IS. The police believe to have evidence. Together with her mother and her Arab neighbour, Magda, she sets out to find the truth about him. Disguised in burkas seeking out the local mosque and imam whose son, Mustafa,…
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Harald is deeply grateful for the benefits of the welfare state. He lives alone, playing wretched violin as a hobby, and has a light job as a custodian at Thorvaldsen Museum, where he is trying to protect the ancient treasures from pokemon-hunters. Additionally, he strives to live a quiet life,…
Read moreSTOLARNA VID HAVET
A warm-hearted comedy about politics and friendship and the relationship between two former political opponents: A social democrat and a conservative, who have now become summer house neighbors. Can, by agreement with Adde Malmberg, be adapted so that the text can be performed with two female actors or a female…
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The story by Walsh Ed Thomas (GAS STATION ANGEL) takes place inside one man’s head in which four characters R1, R2, R3 and R4 portray different elements of his personality. Constantly they converse; revive past conversations and generally attempt to understand how and why Ray is in a hotel in…
Read moreSTOP THE WORLD – I WANT TO GET OFF
Set against the backdrop of a circus, it focuses on Littlechap, whose first major step towards improving his lot is to marry Evie, his boss’s daughter, after getting her pregnant out of wedlock. Saddled with the responsibilities of a family, he allows his growing dissatisfaction with his existence to lead…
Read moreSTORA STYGGA VARGEN
This fairy tale comedy is a vital play based on a series of classic children’s stories. The result is a fiery and franticly hilarious story filled with murderous whims and surprising intrigues. We are introduced to the ferocious Big Bad Wolf who becomes a single provider after accidentally swallowing his…
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This incredible allegory is inspired by Fo‘s 1975 trip to China. The play is a dramatic monologue that tells the story of a revolutionary Chinese solider wounded during Mao‘s Long March and left to die by his comrades. Nursed back to health by a mother tiger, he returns to civilization…
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Two married couples meet by chance in an empty beach hotel. For the first time they are forced to face the absurdity and loneliness of their mundane existence. Summer after summer they return, drawn to each other and to the feeling of freedom of their newfound, isolated world. “The Beach”…
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Streamers are hapless parachutists who streak to their death because of unopened parachutes. In a barracks are three young, different and individually-realized soldiers. One is a young intellectual another is a street-smart Black and the last, a homosexual. Friends at first, their lives are changed and in various ways destroyed…
Read moreSTREET SCENE (OPERA VERSION)
This Pulitzer Prize winner is a panorama of the comedy and tragedy of daily life played to the accompaniment of rumbling elevated trains and the tooting of whistles. Though this remarkable play is primarily a slice of life in a poor neighbourhood, it is held together by a strikingly dramatic…
Read moreSTREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A
Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece has been the source of controversy since it was written years ago. It is the story of the fallen Southern belle Blance Dubois, whose desperate illusions of grandeur are rent to shreds by her earthy and realistic brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Touching on issues of…
Read moreSTRIKING 12: THE NEW GROOVELILY MUSICAL
On New Year’s Eve, an over-worked and under-inspired single guy who’s had enough of holiday cheer makes a resolution: to stay home and go to bed early. On another New Year’s Eve, a continent away—and more than a century earlier—Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Match Girl tries unsuccessfully to sell her…
Read moreSTRIP (Gerz Feigenberg)
A last photo shoot has been arranged for the top model Loni. Following the shoot she intends to disappear with her beloved Pablo never to see any of the gang again, neither her friend, the make-up artist Esp nor her former lover, the star photographer Dipper. But Dipper has other…
Read moreSTRIP (Susanne Storm, Susanne Bonde, Pernille Lyneborg, Merete Byrial & Maj Johansen )
Age 40: Sensible and predictable or hostile and bankrupt or attractive and future-proof? Two women draw up their lives. Do they have one foot in the grave or are the 40s the new 30s? In amazing monological confessions, they reason about their childhood, youth and adulthood, about the deep divisions…
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This play premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre. A female impersonator, a love struck repo man and a lesbian journalist cross America in search of fame. “Kaleidoscopic and hugely accomplished dissection of fate, love and chance” (Independent)
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A woman wakes up in the apartment of an unknown man. She doesn’t know what happened. Has the man really saved her from death as he claims? Or has he given her something anaesthetic and raped her afterwards? Have they met before? How is it all connected with the plays,…
Read moreSTUFF HAPPENS
April 11th 2003, whilst Bagdad was exposed to lootings after the invasion, the American minister of defence Donald Rumsfeld, held a press conference in which he said: “Stuff happens… and it’s untidy, and freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.”…
Read moreSTUNDARFRIÐUR (A BRIEF RESPITE)
In a home as busy as a railway station during peak hour, Irene and Harry and their three children, as well as the grandparents, live together. The action never stops: people call incessantly on the phone and at the door, and all the while there is a flow of white…
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A comedy set aboard on a British nuclear sub that tells of an anarchistic youth and his attempts to get discharged from the British Navy. His attempts backfires with hilarious consequences, until he is forced into one final bid for freedom.
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This is a comedy based on generation gaps in an English middle class family. It offers fantastic parts to an elderly married couple, who has had to compromise in life and a couple of young idealistic revolutionaries.
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Caroline marries an unemployed actor, Kevin, whom she supports while he flirts with women and spoils her flat with his oafish behaviour. Eventually he seduces one of her pupils and Caroline throws him out. Miserably isolated, she goes to dinner with Jilly and Ivor and meets Matthew who appears eminently…
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The parking lot of a mini-mall convenience store is the private domain of three men in their very early twenties: Jeff, Buff and Tim. Jeff is a sometime student, Buff an easy-going party animal, and Tim a virtual alcoholic Air Force veteran. They talk trash, harass Nazeer, the Pakistani owner…
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This is Julien Green’s first stage work to which he was inspired by Louis Jouvert. However, he is likely to be better known for his translation of the literary work, MOIRA. The play takes place in the in the South of America in 1861, on the day before the Civil…
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This is a true story about the time and the world we live in.’ Williams has made it seem true – or at least curiously and suspensefully possible – by the extraordinary skill with which he wrings detail after detail out of a young woman who has lived with horror.…
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This is the musical version of the hit movie SOME LIKE IT HOT starring Marilyn Monroe as Sugar. It all takes off when the two, still unknown, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a gang massacre in Chicago. Knowing they are in trouble, they disguise themselves as two women belonging to…
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It is 1942 and two of Hollywood’s greatest divas arrive at the luxurious Palm Beach royal Hotel with assistants, luggage and a deadly feud on tow. Everything appears to be in place for the evening’s show…until it turns out that the ladies have been allocated the same suite. Overblown egos,…
Read moreSUMMER AND SMOKE
The play is a simple love story of a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor. Each is basically attracted to the other but because of their divergent attitudes toward life, each over the course of years is driven away from the other. Not until toward the end…
Read moreSUMMER AT THE LAKE
The play takes place in a holiday cottage near a lake. An eccentric mother and her sensitive teenage son have fled from the big and busy city with their maid. It seems the father has left them and that the house, the son’s retreat, is to be sold. The son…
Read moreSUMMER OF THE ALIENS
It is 1962 and the world is worried about the Cuban missile crisis, except for Lewis, a youth on the cusp of manhood, growing up in a Melbourne housing commission suburb. He is preoccupied by flying saucer, much to the disgust of his friend Brian who can think only of…
Read moreSUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL
4 F / 3 M This play has been written out of the author’s heart and soul because he had something that he passionately wanted to say. This compelling Australian play is a vigour, integrity, and faithful portrayal of an unfamiliar scene. It tells of two itinerant cane-cutters: Barney, a…
Read moreSUMMER RAIN
On Christmas Day 1945 a stranded tent-show troupe reach a drought-stricken outback town. Before they leave on New Year’s Day, many lives are changed. A romantic musical comedy featuring memorable lyrics by Nick Enright and beautiful music by Terrence Clarke. Revived by Sydney Theatre Company in 2005 starring Genevieve Lemon…
Read moreSUMMER, 1976
Broadway drama set during the 200th anniversary of America’s independence which follows the friendship between two very different mothers, the rebellious artist Diana and the free-spirited Alice. Insightful and engaging play about motherhood and ambition and helping each other discover one’s own independence. (Manhattan Theater Club).
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In early 2014, Somnimag, a small technology company has developed a revolutionary brain scan machine, but has difficulties with finding a buyer. Soon the company directors are faced with a moral dilemma: is doing business with Putin’s Russia a viable option? Olli, the CEO, is caught between a rock and…
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