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THIS 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…
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THIS 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…
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THIS 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
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THIS 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…
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THOM 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…
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THOMASTAG
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.
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THORN 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…
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THREE 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…
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THREE 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.
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THREE 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…
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THREE 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…
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THREE SISTERS, THE
Mamet’s version of Chekhov’s classic about the three sisters, Olga, Masha and Irina.
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THREE 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…
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THREE 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…
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THRICE 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!
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THURBER 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…
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TIDENS 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…
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TIGER 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…
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TIGERENS, HARENS OG DRAGENS TIMER
A radio play about a girl who becomes a woman during the Chinese Revolution.
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TIL 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…
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TIL 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…
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TIL 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…
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TILBAKE 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…
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TILFÆLDIGHEDENS 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…
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TILGIV 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…
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TILL 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.
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TILL 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,…
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TILLAS 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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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…
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TIME 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,…
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TIME 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,…
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TIME 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
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.
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TIMES 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…
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TINA’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.
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TINY 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.
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TIR & 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.
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TIRSDAG 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…
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TISZETA MÚLT KFT (SAUBERE VERGANGENHEIT GMBH)
A political comedy about the new Hungary after the fall of communism.
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TITANIC
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…
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TJEKHOVS 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…
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TJORVEN 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…
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TO 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…
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TOCHTER 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…
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TOCHTERTAG
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.
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TOD 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.
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TOD 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…
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TODO 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…
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TOM, 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…
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TOMORROW 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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TONE
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…
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TONY 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…
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TONY 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.
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TOO 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…
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TOP 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…
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TOP 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…
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TOPDOG / 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.
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TORBEN 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…
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TORCH 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…
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TORDENSKIOLD
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…
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TOTAL 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…
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TOTALE 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…
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TOTALLY 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…
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TOTALSCHADEN / 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.
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TOUCH 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…
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TOUCH 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.
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TOUR 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…
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TOURISTEN, DIE
An existential nightmare about three couples on vacation: the play portrays their desires, hatred, boredom, drunkenness and affairs.
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TOURNANT, 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…
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TOUS 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.
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TOYS 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…
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TRAFFORD 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…
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TRAGEDIE 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…
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TRAGEDY 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.
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TRAINS 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.
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TRAMWAY 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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TRANSLATIONS
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…
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TRAPS
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…
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TRAUMFRESSERCHEN, 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…
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TRAUMNOVELLE
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…
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TRAVELLER’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.
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TRAVELLING 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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TRAVESTIES
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…
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TRE 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…
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