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TILLSAMMANS
The year is 1975. Elisabeth is tired of her husband, so she packs her bags and takes her children to her brother Göran. Elisabeth is a normal housewife from the suburb, but Göran is a bit different. He lives in the Marxist commune “Tilsammans” and this is where Elisabeth arrives…
Read moreTIME AND TIME AGAIN
The suburban house of the Bakers’ adjoins a recreation field, which is useful since football and cricket play a large part in the story. Peter, who works for Graham, brings his fiancée to the house and Graham, as usual, makes a bee-line for her. However, it is Mrs. Baker’s brother,…
Read moreTIME OF MY LIFE
Gerry Stratton has organized a family dinner with his sons Glyn and Adam at his favourite restaurant to celebrate his wife Laura’s 54th birthday. Glyn is with his long-suffering wife Stephanie; their marriage looks to be on firmer ground that it once was. Adam has brought along his new girlfriend,…
Read moreTIME STANDS STILL
She photographs people involved in the war. He writes their stories. Together, they were strong in the midst of all the chaos. Now they have come home. This is a warm and touching love story written by the Pulitzer prize winning Donald Margulies about a journalist and a photographer who…
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Timeless fortæller historien om fire venner, hvis nuværende tidligere og fremtidige liv er fint sammen. De studerer deres refleksioner i vinduet på en café, ser tilbage på sig selv nostalgisk, drømmer om den perfekte fremtid, og smerteligt ikke at komme i kontakt med hinanden i nutiden.
Read moreTIMES SQUARE
The magic recipe to revive an actor lacking in inspiration! The story of a bad-tempered actor too fond of whisky and who has to coach a beginner actress for an audition of «Romeo and Juliet». A fictitious audition and a meeting arranged by the actor’s brother who wants him to…
Read moreTINA’S TROOPERS
2 Acts / large cast, speaking and non-speaking parts. A play for high school kids, with music.Tina and her band of young travelling performers survive in post-nuclear Australia.
Read moreTINY DYNAMITE
With dramaturgical anarchy and fine poetry, Morgan builds a captivating and untraditional love story about friendship, summer vacations and a young woman who wanders into the lives of two men.
Read moreTIR & LIR
Monday is letter day. The elderly couple, Müpp and Möpp sits in bed and answers the weekly letters from their children, Tir and Lir. The letters are normally of positive art, but today there is bad news.
Read moreTIRSDAG FORMIDDAG
Iben is a beautiful and smart woman. She has a job and a husband she loves, but never the less her life is falling apart. A violent anxiety neurosis has overtaken her powers and keeps her from living a normal life, but when she begins going to the swimming bath…
Read moreTISZETA MÚLT KFT (SAUBERE VERGANGENHEIT GMBH)
A political comedy about the new Hungary after the fall of communism.
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The sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912 remains the quintessential disaster of this century. A total of 1,517 souls-men, women and children-lost their lives (only 711 survived). The musical TITANIC examines the causes, the conditions and the characters involved in this ever-fascinating drama. It deals with issues such as…
Read moreTJEKHOVS TRE SYSTRAR
With great respect for Chekhov, Enquist cast a new light on the immortal classic about the three sisters, Olga, Masja, and Irina whose dreams never came true. In this play, the sisters have grown old and are reminiscing about the events in their youth, which played a crucial part in…
Read moreTJORVEN PÅ SALTKRÅKAN
This is a warm-hearted story about a bunch of children living with their slightly confused and highly beloved father, who is an author. We follow them to an island in the Swedish archipelagos where they rent an old decaying house, in which their everyday joys, sorrows, problems with the house…
Read moreTO FALL IN LOVE
More than 20 years ago, the psychologist Arthur Aron watched as two strangers fell in love in his laboratory while they asked each other 36 questions he had prepared. Six months later, the two participants got married. TO FALL IN LOVE is a warm story about love. Merryn and Wyatt…
Read moreTOCHTER DER LUFT, DIE
Enzensberger’s version af Calderóns ”La hija del aire / Daughter of the Air” (c. 1652-1653) based on the ancient legend of Semiramis. It’s the terrifying story of a human love triangle amidst a raging battle between two goddesses, Diana and Venus. Caught in the middle is Semiramis, raised in isolation…
Read moreTOCHTERTAG
A father awaits his daughter who he has rarely seen since the divorce. It’s her birthday and he has thought out a program of fantastic surprises. The only question is whether she will like them or not. While he waits for her, he imagines her reactions.
Read moreTOD UND TEUFEL
One of Turrini’s most controversial plays. A disillusioned priest sets out on a journey, seeking to discover Sin. His self-crucifixion and death end the quest in a highly symbolic and for some, scandalous fashion.
Read moreTOD UND WIEDERAUFERSTEHUNG DER WELT MEINER ELTERN IN MIR
The story of an influential banker and his recognitions during an era dominated by an overriding materialism. He withdraws his money from the bank, blocks his accounts, puts his life behind him and battles the system he is a part of. The plan? To start of a global hyperinflation. Stockmann’s…
Read moreTODO SOBRE MI MADRE (ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER)
The nurse Manuela goes to Barcelona to find the father of her deceased son. Accidentally, she comes across a series of different women (some of them transvestites) who all struggle with tough odds. This is a black story, based on the Spaniard Pedro Almodóvar’s successful film that won an Oscar…
Read moreTOM, DICK AND HARRY
Tom and his wife are in the process of adopting a baby. It is the happiest day of their lives – or rather, it would have been if the brothers of Tom, Dick and Harry, had not decided to help them. The result of Dick and Harry’s “assistance” includes two…
Read moreTOMORROW MORNING
Tomorrow Morning is a warmly sophisticated musical about the coupling and uncoupling of relationships. A show about the ordinary everyday drama of misunderstandings and hurt feelings, but also about the humour in our lives. Tomorrow Morning speaks to anyone who has ever fallen in or out of love. The story…
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A cheerful homage to the versatile Danish costume and life artist, Tone Bonnén (1914 – 1980). Brøgger paints a heroic portrait of an idealized mother figure, a full-blown woman, from whom love flows freely towards everything and everyone. In her person, Tone gathers all notions of female desire. This generosity…
Read moreTONY DRAWS A HORSE
This lightweight British satire on Freudianism stars Cecil Parker as a prominent doctor and Anne Crawford as his psychiatrist wife. Parker and Crawford are taken aback when their innocent young son Anthony Lang draws a picture of a horse, with all necessary reproductive equipment lovingly detailed. While Parker is all…
Read moreTONY N’ TINA’S WEDDING
A comedy based on a traditional Italian-American wedding and reception, with warm and intrusive stereotypes exaggerated for comic effect. Audience members are treated as guests at the wedding by the interactive, improvisational comedy cast.
Read moreTOO MUCH, TOO MUCH, TOO MANY
Following the death of her husband, Rose locks herself in her bedroom for the better part of a year, leaving her daughter Emma to care for her through the closed door. When the church sends a pastor to help coax Rose out of her room, he soon finds that Rose…
Read moreTOP DOGS
An award-winning Swiss comedy about private economic life. The play revolves around various fired executive leaders who are participating in a brutal initiator course which will prepare them to regain the business market using everything from shock-therapy to Japanese martial arts. The problem with the participants is that none of…
Read moreTOP GIRLS
One of Churchill’s most popular works focuses on Marlene, the career girl who has sacrificed her house and family in order to achieve success in the business world. The first part of the play takes place during a dinner party at which she converses with a group of historic and…
Read moreTOPDOG / UNDERDOG
An exceptional fable of brotherly love and family identity: Two brothers, Lincoln and Booth are fighting to survive the ghosts of the past and have taken to an existence of hustling in order to survive in the city. Suzan-Lori Parks was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the play.
Read moreTORBEN TOBEN
In a pub in Copenhagen two fellows have had a bit too much to drink and suddenly one of the them bites off one of the other guest’s finger, and subsequently eats the rest of the guest instead of calling a doctor. In no time, he succeeds in eating his…
Read moreTORCH SONG TRILOGY, THE
A trilogy of the plays: THE INTERNATIONAL STUD (1 F / 2 M), FUGUE IN A NURSERY (1 F / 3 M) and WIDOWS AND CHILDREN FIRST (1 F / 3 M). The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing Jewish drag queen living in New York City in…
Read moreTORDENSKIOLD
The whole of Scandinavia is acquainted with the name Tordenskiold but only very few know of his short and tragic life. So here is the story about his brief yet memorable career in the Danish/Norwegian navy and his relationship with Kristine who loved him dearly though without getting much in…
Read moreTOTAL ECLIPSE
Christopher Hampton’s first produced play (Royal Court 1968) is an impeccably researched tale of the love affair between Paul Verlaine – a successful poet with a pregnant trophy wife – and his protégé – the sixteen-year-old runaway Arthur Rimbaud. It’s both a celebration of unconventional lifestyles and a depiction of…
Read moreTOTALE KICK, DER
“Pulp Fiction” is Anneke’s favorite movie and now the 21-year-old travel agency employee wants to do something really Tarantino-like. Along with her boyfriend, she breaks in at a flat of a seemingly harmless old pensioner who’s supposed to be on vacation. To their surprise, they find 4 elderly women gathered…
Read moreTOTALLY OVER YOU
Inspired by Molière’s Les Précieuses Ridicules, Mark Ravenhill’s ironic new play examines the world of instant celebrity, branding and illusion in an age of Big Brother and Pop Rivals. It is a love story for anyone who’s ever dreamt of becoming a pop star, told a few lies and been…
Read moreTOTALSCHADEN / TOTAL LOSS
Three men in an undefined space: A younger doctor, Duco; a young man on the run from the police, Rainer and frustrated suicidal character, Jeroen. What has brought them together here and why are they all wearing tuxedos? A stylistic and flamboyant psychodrama with challenging parts.
Read moreTOUCH AND GO
This is a highly amusing and effective infidelity comedy, where A cheats on B with C whereas B cheats A with D who then cheats on E with B. It may sound very schematic but it is not the slightest. It is actually surprisingly recognizable. The wives believe that their…
Read moreTOUCH OF THE SUN, A
About a killjoy socialist schoolmaster, around whose domestic life dark stormclouds gather during a rare trip to the south of France.
Read moreTOUR DE FARCE
Herbert Gladney has spent every waking moment of the last 10 years working on his best-selling book “Marriage is Forever,” unaware that his own marriage is falling apart. His wife Rebecca is willing to continue the “happy couple” charade through the book tour (for the money), but is getting tired…
Read moreTOURISTEN, DIE
An existential nightmare about three couples on vacation: the play portrays their desires, hatred, boredom, drunkenness and affairs.
Read moreTOURNANT, LE
This is a boulevard comedy that takes the mick of its own genre as well as with the snobbery within avant-garde theatre, done in such a clever way that it is hard to place the real scapegoat. The main character is a successful comedy actor who up until now has…
Read moreTOUS CONTRE TOUS
The action takes place in a country in a state of emergency and depicts the “natives” fanatical fight against the hated “refugees”. The conflict has plunged the state into political chaos where personal rivalries and political differences between the leading characters are woven inextricably together.
Read moreTOYS IN THE ATTIC
This play takes place in the Southern states of America and portrays the troubles that arise when a very poor family is suddenly handed money, and here the disputes are between a husband, his two sisters, his wife and lastly his mother-in-law. From there it illuminates the fact that even…
Read moreTØRST (THIRST)
A family is falling apart after the death of the father, Tom. His widow and his daughter struggle to regain their strength in the remains of their home, unable to reach each other. THIRST is an honest and poetic play filled with grotesque humour and illuminated by magical realism. It…
Read moreTRAFFORD TANZI
The play is set in a wrestling ring where the story of the title character, Tanzi, is told. Tanzi’s parents bring her up to be feminine, but she refuses to conform to traditional femininity and is labeled a tomboy. She marries a professional wrestler named Dean Rebel and supports him…
Read moreTRAGEDIE COMIQUE, LA
The comical tragedy is a warm tribute to the theater as an art form. It is an absurd comedy about time and love. A lone actor fills the stage with great drama and lots of roles. Far beyond the stars sitting role and wait for someone to perceive it. The…
Read moreTRAGEDY OF GOOD INTENTIONS, THE
One of Pope Urban II’s young secretaries, Gontrand, starts a crusade against the Turks, and pays therefore the ultimate price. A piece about religion, politics, power and human suffering.
Read moreTRAINS À TRAVERS LA PLAINE, DES / THE FOREST
Enigmatic play with actions that appear in different versions and scenes that are played simultaneously: About a male doctor who gets into serious trouble when he tries to get out of a relationship with his lover to return to a life with his wife.
Read moreTRAMWAY ROAD
The play is set in 1951, one year after the Population Registration Act was passed in South Africa. Tramway Road had a special notoriety for all those who lived in Sea Point, a white residential suburb of Cape Town. It also exerts its influence over all the characters in this…
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This hauntingly lyrical play is about nothing less than language as the soul of a nation. Set in 1833 in Ireland, it tells of the British army’s campaign to replace the native Gaelic with English, an attempt to end centuries of fighting by setting up a political union based on…
Read moreTRAPS
Sharing a flat or farming in the country, owing for the milk bill or being dead, ironing or laying jigzaw puzzles – in this play about communal living, all possibilities are open at once and co-existing like the perspectives in an Escher drawing. Churchill herself has defined her play as…
Read moreTRAUMFRESSERCHEN, DAS
In Slumberland, the king’s daughter cannot sleep because she is plagued by bad dreams. The best doctors and professors have no idea what to do and the king sets out to find a cure for his daughter’s problem himself. Just as he is about to give up, he meets the…
Read moreTRAUMNOVELLE
TRAUMNOVELLE (1925) by Arthur Schnitzler was the basis of Stanley Kubrick’s film EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) staring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Vienna in the early 1900s: At a nightly and highly sexually arousing masquerade ball, the young doctor couple Fridolin and Albertine swear to tell each other about their…
Read moreTRAVELLER’S JOY
With extensive restrictions on how much foreign exchange British travelers could take outside the realm (£5 in 1949), a variety of English men and women are trapped in expensive Sweden.
Read moreTRAVELLING LIGHT (AKA EDGWARE ROAD BLUES)
This is a fast paced triangle comedy with plenty of tragicomic effects. A man and a woman live happily together until destiny presents them with a Buddhist fanatic after which, a drama of disputes and clashes unfolds between an orthodox puritan and an earthy yet poor opinion of fellow people.…
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The main character in this play is a Narrator in form of an eccentric elderly Englishman, Henry Carr who worked as civil servant at the consulate in Zurich during the First World War. The author admits the story being a fantasy as he misuses history in letting Carr experience events…
Read moreTRE BRAVI, I
An elderly father watches over his three daughters who are eager to get married. A ghost haunts and three young men have been sent – but who has the courage to fight the ghost? The crucial test does not end as expected. Everyone tricks everyone. But all three girls get…
Read moreTREATMENT, THE
New York: Anne has a story and two producers, Jennifer and Andrew want to buy it. But is her story good enough to be “art”? The aging Clifford enters, with all his ideas. So does John, the ex with all the connections – and later Anne’s husband, Simon. Add a…
Read moreTREFFEN, DAS – THE OTHER SIDE
A play that involves an audience which in two locations experiences the same course of action. Five actors mingle in the crowd. Selected faces from the other side are projected onto a screen while the actors begin to tell stories that relates to the ones portrayed: stories from everyday life,…
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Julia feels like she’s trapped in the ice. She lives in an unemotional relationship with her husband, is having an affair, and is finally admired – and pregnant. But the lover leaves. Tanjana Tsouvelis intertwines various characters’ psychological programs that all have the same common denominator: emotional impotence.
Read moreTRES SOMBREROS A COPA
One of the most important plays of twentieth-century Spanish literature tells the story of a modest public official who receives an unexpected chance to transform his dull life. Meaningless and absurd situations along with incredible dialogue hide a deeper significant reality.
Read moreTRIAGE
Maya Arad deals with ethical and moral issues within the hospital world. A medical team is on a course in the implementation of triage, which refers to the prioritizing of patient care based on the severity of their condition and chances of survival. The line between theory and reality blurs…
Read moreTRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Stage adaption rights. An uninhibited satire where roles and class are inverted and the tawdry economic value of beauty is unveiled. Models Carl and Yaya are navigating the world of fashion while exploring the boundaries of their relationship. The couple are invited for a luxury cruise with a rogues’ gallery…
Read moreTRIBADERNAS NATT
“The Night of the Tribades” is a portrait of August Strindberg. A historical drama in which Enquist takes some liberties, but mainly the play is based on facts. The action takes place in Copenhagen 1889, where Strindberg’s estranged wife, Siri von Essen, her alcoholic lesbian friend, Marie Caroline, and the…
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In Tribes, Billy, who is deaf, is the only one who actually listens in his idiosyncratic, fiercely argumentative bohemian family. But when he meets Sylvia, who is going deaf, he decides he finally wants to be heard. With excoriating dialogue and sharp, compassionate insights, Nina Raine crafts a penetrating play…
Read moreTRIGON, THE
James Broom Lynne – dramatist – child of the experimental British theatre – conquered London with this his first play. The tactical preparations for the conquest can be ascribed to Pinter and Saunders, but he himself has also contributed considerably. An open scenic imagination free of theatrical speculation, a realistic…
Read moreTRILOGIA DELLA VILLEGGIATURA, LA
Giorgio Strehler’s version of Goldonis, La trilogia della villeggiatura from 1761 about what happens behind the scenes when two Northern Italian families and their respective entourages prepare for a fashionable stay in the country.
Read moreTRISH TINKLER ON HOW TO BE EXCITING
Trish goes to an AA meeting to confess her secret. It’s not alcohol. Yes, she had a couple of shots of Goldschlager Peppermint Schnapps when it happened, but she was just trying to be the life of the party for once.
Read moreTRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Waechter’s version of the medieval legend of the young lovers, Tristan and Iseult, who are bound together by a love potion and ends up dying for love.
Read moreTRIUMPH OF LOVE, THE
Princes Leonide, in disguise, arrives in the garden of the philosopher, Hermocrate. She has come to try and win some time in his retreat for she has fallen in love, from afar, with Hermocrate’s student, Agis, who is the “legitimate” prince of the realm over which Leonide rules. Knowing that…
Read moreTROG! – THE DIGNITY OF LABOUR
2 Acts / 1M / Restricted availability ‘Spider’ Webster is an ageing roadie from the days when all the job required was a strong back and a capacity for over-indulgence. But Spider can’t cut it anymore. With a bad back, diminished self-esteem, a no understanding of today’s technology, he plans…
Read moreTROILUSWAHN UND CRESSIDATHEATER
The actors play Achilles, Hector, Ajax, Helena and many other famous heroes and heroines of the Trojan War … But time and again they fall out of their characters. Trojan War and private wars, fiction and reality merge in indistinguishably.
Read moreTROIS GARÇONS, UNE FILLE
Three brothers and a sister are trying to retain their father, who’s tempted by extramarital affairs.
Read moreTROIS VERSIONS DE LA VIE
Reza’s new play is a triptycon; three versions of the same story are played by the same people and with the same plot, though with completely different psychological facets and consequences. A successful astrophysicist arrives at a dinner party hosted by a less successful astrophysicist and his wife; only it…
Read moreTROJE TRILOGIE (TROJA-TRILOGIE)
The Trojan War and the consequences of it, delivers the substance of this award winning Dutch trilogy which consists of three parts that can be staged independently: ANDROMACHE (2 F – 1 M) NEOPTOLEMOS (1 F – 1 M) TROJA (3 F – 1 M) Koos Terpstra deals with the…
Read moreTROLD KAN TÆMMES
This is the classical Shakespeare’s tale in a musical version. Unlike ‘Kiss Me Kate’ this musical sticks faithfully to the old Master’s play without any secondary plots. The action takes place in the lovely town Padua in Northern Italy. A young apathetic nobleman named Lucentio arrives in town and instantly…
Read moreTROLLSPEILET
The play is a fantasy of several well-known Norwegian folk tales and has ‘The Princess who could not keep quiet’ as the main theme. One is introduced to Huldre and Trolde and the three roaring goats along with many other fairytale characters.
Read moreTROMMELN IN DER NACHT
Brecht’s first public success is set against the dramatic backdrop of the 1918 German revolution and tells of a returning veteran who finds his girl has another man.
Read moreTROPFEN AUF HEISSE STEINE
Young and naive Franz’ relationship with the older, successful business man Leopold is already based on roll playing and manipulation, and it becomes even more complicated when their former lovers appear (one of them being a transsexual). Fassbinder was only 19 when he wrote this provocative play, which he never…
Read moreTROUBLE IN THE WORKS
A sketch about people working in a factory making machine parts. A representative of the workers has a meeting with the manager about rising dissatisfaction among them.
Read moreTRUCKSTOP
A dream play told by three dead people. The action takes place in a truck stop owned by a mid aged woman. Her daughter falls in love with a local youngster, who dreams about getting his own truck one day. When she one day inherits a large amount of money,…
Read moreTRUST
Richter explores the shaky foundations and mechanisms of human bonds against the background of current crises. Relationships build up and break down in ever shorter time-scales; they become a resource in an increasingly intense competition. Binding, seperating. Buying, selling. A picture is presented of human beings who, over the years,…
Read moreTSCHICK
The teenager Maik lives with his alcoholic mother and a father who’s now on a business trip with his young secretary lover. The new boy in school, Tschick shows up in a stolen Lada and a road trip through the country begins for the two youngsters. A trip of freedom…
Read moreTULIPUNAINEN HEVONEN (THE RED HORSE)
Kosti leads the circle of love – a place, where people without any spiritual orientation can come if they need support or care. However, when the nearby church and other external forces start questioning the project, Korsti begins to be more and more extreme in his thinking and what used…
Read moreTULITIKKUTEHTAAN TYTTÖ (THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL)
This is an extremely black feministic comedy about murder and revenge. Iris has a tedious job at a match factory, and her personal life is even more boring. She is ignored at home, at work and in the night clubs she visits. To lighten up the mood she buys a…
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