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THE NETHER
In the nether (the internet), a virtual world called the Hideaway has been created for men who are attracted to underage girls. Here one can choose any identity that suits one. Detective Morris (female) interrogates the creator of this sci-fi world, a paedophile named Sims, whose client Doyle, a 65-year-old…
Read moreTHE NOTEBOOK OF TRIGORIN
The Notebook of Trigorin is an adaptation of Chekhov’s the Seagull. In Williams’ version the jaded writer Trigorin is in focus and he is now a bisexual. The conflict between Irina Arkadian, Nina, Constantin and Trigorin is unfolded once again, but this time in the American South.
Read moreTHE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE
Enthralling adventure play for the whole family based on Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name about a man who returns home and is taken back to his childhood and a gloomy world of spirits, worms and hungry birds – a dangerous universe he tries to navigate with his friend,…
Read moreTHE ONE
Award-winning chamber play about the raw and emotionally strained relationship between a couple whose partnership is locked in a devastating constellation of love and lust. The action unfolds over a single night where a female colleague also makes her entrance with assumptions that she has probably been raped by her…
Read moreTHE ONE EXCEPTION
An artist named Kyra has had a complete emotional breakdown and shows barely any signs of recovery. Now under the care of a friendly nurse, Kyra’s greatest terror is to be sent to a mental institution. Just days before she is to be committed, Kyra is visited by Viola, an…
Read moreTHE OPEN HOUSE
A family, father, mother, son daughter, uncle, is gathered for a birthday celebration, but there is not much to celebrate. When a realtor shows up, looking strangely familiar to us, followed by a potential buyer, also familiar, to look at the house things turn to the surreal. As each member…
Read moreTHE OTHER MOZART
The Other Mozart is the true and untold story of Nannerl Mozart, the sister of Amadeus – a prodigy, keyboard virtuoso and composer, who performed throughout Europe with her brother to equal acclaim, but her work and her story faded away, lost to history. Set amidst the Enlightenment and a…
Read moreTHE OTHER PLACE
Juliana Smithton is a successful neurologist whose life seems to be coming unhinged. Her husband has filed for divorce, her daughter has eloped with a much older man and her own health is in jeopardy. During a lecture to colleagues at an exclusive beach resort, she glimpses an enigmatic young…
Read moreTHE OTHER SIDE (Ariel Dorfman)
From the provocative author Ariel Dorfman comes a powerful, apocalyptic new play. A man and a woman wait for peace. They pass their days confirming the identity of dead bodies in a hut near the border of two fighting countries, their homelands. When peace and a border guard arrive, chaos…
Read moreTHE PARADE OR APPROACHING THE END OF A SUMMER
“Love makes some people charming but it makes me dull.” In the summer of 1940 Williams lived in Provincetown, Mass., where he fell in love for the first time – the man was Kip Kiernan, a dancer and Canadian draft dodger. Their affair lasted most of the summer, until Kip…
Read moreTHE PATIENT GLORIA
A very entertaining award-winning feminist show / comedy about female desire, male psychotherapists and their private parts. The play was inspired by the 1965 film material “Three Approaches To Psychotherapy”, also known as The Gloria films. Gloria was a 30-something newly divorced single mother who gave permission – intended for…
Read moreTHE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR
An intelligent and multicultural farce about the time after September 11 th, and about how a global problem suddenly becomes your problem. The play takes place in a staircase in a block of flats in some suburb. This is where the dazed Nigel lives, who parties in his own stoned…
Read moreTHE PLEBOTOMIST
In a near future blood tests gives you an official rating in society: High numbers equals good opportunities and possibilities in getting jobs, education, bank loans and dating prospects. Bea is a phlebotomist and finds a good match in an intelligent and handsome young man. Most importantly: He has a…
Read moreTHE PRETTY TRAP (A COMEDY IN ONE ACT)
Derived from the final act of The Glass Menagerie, The Pretty Trap brings us to dinner with the Wingfield family and gentleman caller Jim Delaney, but with what Williams calls “a lighter treatment and a different ending.” Amanda Wingfield, “a perennial Southern belle transferred to more rigorous climate and conditions,” is a single…
Read moreTHE PROM
Four eccentric Broadway stars are in desperate need of a new stage. So, when they hear that trouble is brewing around a small-town prom, they know that it’s time to put a spotlight on the issue… and on themselves. The town’s parents want to keep the high school dance on…
Read moreTHE RAIN IS FALLING
Rain and Eliot hook up at their small New Mexico college. Rain is unsure where her life is going, but Eliot is passionate about journalism and finding “the story.” The news of the sudden closing of their college provides Eliot with her story, but their relationship and futures are thrown…
Read moreTHE REALISTIC JONESES
The Realistic Joneses is a darkly comic tale of married life wrought against the backdrop of existential crisis and mental illness. John and Pony Jones have just moved in next door to Bob and Jennifer Jones. The two couples first meeting is a rather awkward one, with thinly disguised disdain…
Read moreTHE REVOLUTIONISTS
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the…
Read moreTHE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
Since its first appearance at The Royal Court Theatre in June 1973, Richard O’Brien’s THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW has become the world’s favourite rock n’ roll musical. On the way to visit an old college professor, Brad Major and his fiancée Janet Weiss run into tyre trouble and seek help…
Read moreTHE ROOM
The set up in this first stage play by Pinter has become somewhat of a characteristic starting point for most of his many dramatic works: a room with a door leading out into a dangerous and hostile world. Here it is the elderly woman Rose, who is serving a warm…
Read moreTHE SALONNIÈRES
In pre-Revolutionary Paris, a young girl fresh from the convent is promised in marriage to an older nobleman to pay off her father’s debts. She flees to the literary salon of her late mother’s friends, aristocratic women who conceal radical politics within reinvented folk tales. But which of them is…
Read moreTHE SEAGULL (John Donnelly)
“A lake. A young girl who’s spent her life beside it. She loves the lake, she’s happy, she’s free – like a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and destroys her.” One of the greatest plays of the modern era, modernised by John Donnelly. In THE SEAGULL, Chekhov…
Read moreTHE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 3/4
Both the book and the TV series are already well known in Denmark. We follow Adrian Mole in a rather troublesome time of his life. In his diary he describes important events, beginning with the day his Mother leaves him and his Father in favour of a new life with…
Read moreTHE SHEPHERD
The SHEPHERD takes place in an imaginary future where animals have the same rights as humans. Nobody has the right to kill without the consent of the victim. Finland has been divided into two provinces of which the north struggles with famine. Former ferry-drummer and current shepherd, Maksimi, lives here…
Read moreTHE STRANGEST KIND OF ROMANCE
Tennessee Williams’ “The Strangest Kind of Romance” tells the story of a ghost of a man who hides from a world he does not belong to by loving a cat named Nitchevo (Russian for nothing). His landlady seeks to use him for her own desires and destroy the only thing…
Read moreTHE SYSTEM
At a surprise 50th birthday/financial intervention for Bob, we learn that assumptions make an ass of you and me.
Read moreTHE TALK
Manu, a recently widowed, immigrant woman, awakens her estranged daughter, Claire, in the middle of the night to ask a wildly inappropriate question. But what begins as a confrontation between mother and daughter transcends into an honest and open dialogue about intimacy and identity between two women—one who never had…
Read moreTHE TESTAMENT OF MARY
A monologue depicting the mother of Jesus who tells her story of her son’s Crucifixion and questions his death and divinity. Nominated for three 2013 Tony Awards, including Best Play.
Read moreTHE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
Clever, entertaining and thoughtful chamber comedy about the philosopher David Hume and the father of modern economics, Adam Smith, who, together with a present-day companion, venture into a 21st century metropolis and, to their delight and horror, find a world where everything what they dreamed of has become a reality.
Read moreTHE UNFRIEND
Brilliant West End comedy about a married couple who, on a cruise ship, meet an eccentric woman (and a possible serial killer) who pays them a visit and stirs up their lives. If only the real world had an “unfriend” button like on the social media.
Read moreTHE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
Monologues where women with different backgrounds and at different stages in their lives talk about erotic experiences, the understanding of the body, cultures’ relationship to the gender and much more. The stories span many colors on the palette and have achieved a status as a classic since the 90s where…
Read moreTHE WALWORTH FARCE
The time reads 11am in a council flat in Walworth Road, London. Within the following 2 hours, 3 Irishmen will have consumed 6 cans of beer, 15 crackers with cheese, 10 pink waffles and one baked chicken with a strange blue sauce. Within the next two hours, 5 individuals will…
Read moreTHE WASP
Despite completely different social backgrounds, Carla and Heather were good friends at school. As a teenager the neglected Carla was jealous of Heather’s privileged life and with a girl gang they made Heather a target for brutal bullying. A couple of decades later: Heather is married, wealthy, but childless. After…
Read moreTHE WAVE
Dramatization rights. THE WAVE is an essay based on the authentic, social psychological experiment, ‘The Third Wave’, executed by American high school teacher Ron jones in 1967: Jones becomes frustrated when he doesn’t succeed in explaining a sceptical student how ordinary Germans could state, that they had been completely unaware…
Read moreTHE WEEKEND (Charlotte Wood / Sue Smith)
Warm play about love, loss and ageing where three female friends in their 70s gathers at their deceased friend’s house to pack it up and to deal with their loss. “I love this story because it is me,” wrote Sue Smith in her program note. “It is my friends and…
Read moreTHE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
In this musical stage version, the English children’s book classic has gone from strength to strength everywhere. Lead by Mole, the many animals have enchanted children and adults with their recognisable human qualities. Poetry, madness and scenic imagination unforgettably form a synthesis. ORCHESTRATION: Violin I Violin II Flute Oboe Clarinet…
Read moreTHE WIZARD OF OZ (RSC VERSION)
6 F / 18 M / Children / Choir / Ballet A full-length musical in 2 acts 11 Sets In Kansas, little Dorothy Gale dreams of all the things that might hide on the other side of the rainbow. Then one day she is caught by a cyclone that blows…
Read moreTHE WOMAN IN BLACK
The framework of this spine-tingle is unusual: a lawyer hire an actor to tutor him in recounting to family and friends a story that long-troubled him concerning events that transpired when he attended the funeral of an elderly recluse. There he caught sight of the woman in black, the mere…
Read moreTHERE GOES THE BRIDE
Timothy Westerbry is all set to give his daughter away in marriage but the day’s wedding plans go astray when a blow to his head summons up the spectre of a 20’s flapper girl who can only be seen by him.
Read moreTHERE HAS POSSIBLY BEEN AN INCIDENT
A series of interlocking stories about the moments when life offers you a choice between heroism and compromise, and what happens after you choose. We follow the ‘Tank Man’ in China, who in 1989 stood out in front of a row of military tanks, without knowing if he will be…
Read moreTHERE’S A GIRL IN MY SOUP
4 F / 4 M Comedy in three acts 1 Set (with several individual sets) Robert Danvers is a 40 year old famous journalist and TV celebrity, who writes cookery books. Still a bachelor, he is renowned for his enthusiastic entertaining of women, who he treats like a glass of…
Read moreTHERESE RAQUIN
A young woman, Thérèse is forced into marrying her ailing cousin Camille, as his mother wants someone to look after him after her death. The marriage is dead and nobody is happy. When Thérèse falls in love with a friend of the family, Laurent and they commence a relationship, the…
Read moreTHESE ARE THE STAIRS YOU GOT TO WATCH
This one act play premiered in 2002. It takes place in a shut down theatre which now functions as a cinema. This is where young Carl works as an attendant. The decayed cinema and the narrow-minded manager quickly becomes a metaphor on the rotten society Carl rebels against. The poet…
Read moreTHEY ARE PLAYING OUR SONG
THEY ARE PLAYING OUR SONG is a hilarious romantic performance about an established composer (not unlike M. Hamlisch) and his relationship with a comical and ambitious young female songwriter (again not unlike C. B. Sager who at the time was M. Hamlisch’s steady girlfriend and co-writer) So firstly there is…
Read moreTHEY CHOSE ME
Experience the funny, touching, and complicated universe of adoption, as related through the stories of kids and teens. (3 musicians) Piano/Vocal Guitar Percussion
Read moreTHEY SHOOT HORSES DON’T THEY
Based on Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel about a dance marathon during the Great Depression.
Read moreTHICKNESS OF SKIN, THE
4 F / 3 M What does one do when one’s house is invaded by a simpleton, who hands out Christmas cards while shouting abusive threats and on top of that when a family member has taken the liberty to invite a homeless man to join in on the Christmas…
Read moreTHINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE
Unique play from one of Australia’s strongest playwrights about one family and its handling of issues surrounding, among other things. drugs, adultery, sexual identity and reconciliation and death.
Read moreTHINGS WE DO FOR LOVE
This play deals with four people who all, under their cool and sound appearances, hide insecurities in love and sex. However, when all four are to share a house, a simple affair becomes a dangerous fight between the sexes. It is certainly one of Ayckbourn’s most powerful plays of late,…
Read moreTHIS DYING BUSINESS
Set in a lecture theatre where three dying people are giving a formal presentation to a conference audience. Based on research in a hospice, it examines the hospice philosophy and community attitudes to death and dying through the eyes of the patients, their relatives and those who care for them…
Read moreTHIS HOSPITAL IS MY COUNTRY
This moving play examines the life of Elena, a refugee from the Greek civil war who has dedicated her life to working in a children’s hospital. Now, with the threat of privatization, she may be asked to go and the memories come flooding back. As Elena locks herself in her…
Read moreTHIS IS A CHAIR
Eight sketches, seemingly inspired by Magritte. Every single sketch has an individual title that is announced to the audience, such as: ‘War in Bosnia’, ‘The Nordic Peace Processes’, ‘Hong Kong’ and ‘Pornography and Censorship’. However what is seen on the stage is a completely different matter.
Read moreTHIS IS OUR YOUTH
It is hard to be young, rich, smart and bored. Dennis, Warren and Jessica are struggling to grow up as have generations of twenty year olds for centuries. They have USD 15.000,00 in used notes, a relaxed view of drug taking and have a taste for Dom Perignon – and…
Read moreTHIS IS WHERE WE CAME IN
This is a socially critical story for children, split up in highly amusing fairytales that are narrated by the three storytellers( “Great Aunt Repititus, Uncle Erraticus and Uncle Oblivious”), though each with their weakness: One constantly repeats herself, the other narrates the story completely wrong and the third completely forgets…
Read moreTHIS LIME TREE BOWER
The title originates from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem. The play is about growing up in a small Irish society, and is told by three young men: Joe, the youngest, is tired of school and misses adventure. His brother Frank works fulltime on the genius plan which is going to solve…
Read moreTHIS OLD MAN COMES ROLLING HOME
Traditional songs Romantic realism – life of a working class family in Redfern, Sydney in late Forties. Published by Currency Methuen Drama 1976
Read moreTHIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED
Willie, a 13-year old girl from Mississippi, is world-weary before her time. She dropped out of school years ago, her family died, and now she lives alone in their condemned boarding house and dreams of becoming a whore. One day as she walks on the railroad tracks, she meets 16-year-old…
Read moreTHOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING)
In 2005, this tragic comic monologue was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The play is about an ordinary man named, Thom Pain, who ponders over life in general. By passing through all the stages of the human evolution, Thom Pain drags his audience into the final ditch, hoping for empathy…
Read moreTHOMASTAG
The play is set in a rural and superstitious environment. Two young outsiders tries to help an elderly woman hang a stolen apple back on the tree.
Read moreTHORN BIRDS, THE
Who will ever forget the amazing and popular serial about the catholic priest, Ralp de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), who loved both God and the girl Meggie (Rachel Ward) and whose pangs of conscience resulted in years of unfulfilled amour fou? The big, tragic love story between the simple country girl…
Read moreTHREE BIRDS, THE
The plot of this horror tale is about Philomela and her sister, Procne. Tereus, king of Thrace, marries Procne but loves Philomela. Five years and one son later, Tereus goes to fetch Philomela for a visit. His lust overcomes him and he rapes Philomela. When she threats that she will…
Read moreTHREE DAYS OF RAIN
A moving and humorous drama about an important day in the lives of three adults. Two siblings meet with a mutual friend to share the estate of their father. This develops into a gripping story about a day in the intersection between past and future.
Read moreTHREE LITTLE WORDS
The cosy world of coupledom has insulated four friends from the challenges of a complicated world. They’ve shared lunches, brunches, art exhibitions and trips to Kakadu. Their perfect cosmopolitan bubble seems hermetically sealed, until one couple casually drops a bombshell – they have decided to split up. And there’s no…
Read moreTHREE MORE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
This is the first time the author employed her now famous device of overlapping dialogue. All three scenes take place in bed. In the first, a husband and wife have a virulent argument over who’s cheating on whom. In the second, a husband drones on about the plot of Alien…
Read moreTHREE SISTERS, THE
Mamet’s version of Chekhov’s classic about the three sisters, Olga, Masha and Irina.
Read moreTHREE WINTERS
From the remnants of monarchy to Communism, democracy, war and the EU: Croatia 1945-2011. The Kos family argue, adapt, fall in and out of love. The one constant is the ivy-clad house in Zagreb, built by aristocrats, partitioned, owned by all, owned by a few; witness to four increasingly educated…
Read moreTHREE WOMEN AND A PIANO TUNER
A riddling play about three women who might be sisters, and a beautiful young man who might be a son. Ella has spent her entire life raising her ‘son’, who is now a piano tuner. She has written a piano concert which she would like to have performed, and has…
Read moreTHRICE UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR
Thrice Upon a Midnight Clear gives audiences a peek into the unlikely—but hilarious—conversations of The Three Wise Men, The Three Wise Women, and The Three Not-So-Wise Shepherds in this traveling triptych as they follow the Star of Bethlehem contemplating its wonder, its mystery…and a good game of golf!
Read moreTHURBER CARNIVAL, A
This is a revue created by America’s beloved humorist. These sketches deal with the bewildered American life and include THE NIGHT THE BED FELL, GENTLEMEN SHOPPERS, THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY and the unforgettable FILE AND FORGET, where Thurber conveys his famous correspondence with various publishers, who send him…
Read moreTIDENS KVINDE
A pitch-black comedy about a 99 year old woman, who, for the last time, visits the place where the most important and crucial moments in her life unfolded: from 1914 to 2014. The action takes place on the edge of a steep cliff by the sea and moves in decades…
Read moreTIGER TAIL
Williams adapted the 1970 play from his 1955 screenplay for the film “Baby Doll.” The movie and play tell the tale of Archie Lee, a down at heel Mississippi cotton gin owner with a child bride who refuses to share her husband’s bed until she is of age. After Lee…
Read moreTIGERENS, HARENS OG DRAGENS TIMER
A radio play about a girl who becomes a woman during the Chinese Revolution.
Read moreTIL AFSKED. DØDEN, OM DU VIL
Hasse and Constance are lovers. Hasse is critically ill with cancer and decides on writing his obituary. Bode is worried and helpless, while Hasse becomes more and more accusatory. What is the reason for his cancer? Hasse blames Constance for his illness, it is his fault, because he in 1996…
Read moreTIL KONGO!
Three actors are trying to understand what happens when man crosses the limits of civilisation and gives in to the lowest of instincts. As a modern dream play, using both documentary and fiction, the play takes place in a prisoner’s cell; a court room; and in a reconstruction of the…
Read moreTIL VALHALL
A young man has returned from a secret mission and must defend himself during interrogations. Who is he? What has he done? ‘Helper’ comes to his rescue during the questioning, but Helper is of no help at all. The man’s thoughts darken and peace of mind is only to be…
Read moreTILBAKE TIL TUENGEN ALLÉ
This warm and humoristic radio play won the Prix Europa 2005 for the NRK Radio Theatre: Sverre is a happy man. He owns a swimming pool, has almost grown up children, a beloved wife, Gerd, as well as a house. One day on his way home the most terrible thing…
Read moreTILFÆLDIGHEDENS ENGEL
Malene and Yoram are living a comfortable middleclass life in their luxurious house. When Yoram and the son sail out on the sea close to their home, catastrophe strikes when a plane crashes. The neighbor’s shocked wife pays a visit and eats a piece of cheese which is covered in…
Read moreTILGIV MIG
Can you forgive your boyfriend’s infidelity? The failure of your alcoholic mother? Can you forgive the person who knocked you about; can you forgive your sister who slept with your husband, the person who talked behind your back? Can you forgive the rapist, the murderer, the terrorist? Those who failed…
Read moreTILL FEDRA
This retelling of the classical myth is a tight, violent story about a middle-aged woman who wants to be seen. For her, love is turned into destruction and in the end, death.
Read moreTILL THE STARS COME DOWN
Ingenious comic drama about a British working-class family, which is gathered for a wedding party, as one of the women of the family is to marry a Polish worker. The play is an intelligent study in character and social structures and looks not only at internal conflicts in a family,…
Read moreTILLAS TAG
“Today is the best day in my life”, says Tilla, thrilled that her husband, Danny, is to be released from prison. Finally she’ll be able to live an intact family life. Together with her sister and Danny’s friend, Gratto, they wait for him. But he never turns up. A moving…
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