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TREATMENT, 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…
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TREFFEN, 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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TREIBEIS
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.
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TRES 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.
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TRIAGE
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…
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TRIANGLE 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…
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TRIBADERNAS 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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TRIBES
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…
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TRIGON, 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…
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TRILOGIA 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.
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TRISH 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.
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TRISTAN 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.
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TRIUMPH 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…
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TROG! – 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…
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TROILUSWAHN 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.
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TROIS GARÇONS, UNE FILLE
Three brothers and a sister are trying to retain their father, who’s tempted by extramarital affairs.
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TROIS 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…
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TROJE 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…
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TROLD 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…
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TROLLSPEILET
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.
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TROMMELN 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.
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TROPFEN 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…
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TROUBLE 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.
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TRUCKSTOP
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,…
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TRUST
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,…
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TSCHICK
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…
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TULIPUNAINEN 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…
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TULITIKKUTEHTAAN 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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TUPILAK
Senja is a woman who is fascinated by the strange and dangerous medical lawyer, K. He calls Senja repeatedly and insists upon seeing her naked, wrapped only in cellophane. He turns out to be the challenge Senja needs to change her life in this play about a relationship about to…
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TURIST / FORCE MAJEURE
Loyal and efficient stage adaptation of Ruben Östlund’s award-winning feature film about a man who must come to terms with himself after he has acted like a coward when he and his family are put in a life-threatening situation. Powerful chamber play with big parts.
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TURNING SHIT INTO ROSES
The play is a dynamic collage based on monological statements from three young men in their 30s, Rasmus, John and Dennis, who share their experiences and thoughts about the big questions in life.
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TUSK TUSK
Three children are located in their family’s new flat. The father is dead, and their mentally unstable mother tends to leave them once in a while. This time, the situation is more serious than normally – she has been away for over a week and the children’s patience is nearly…
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TUSSEN DRIEBERGEN – ZEIST (HALTESTELLE IRGENDWO)
Near a bus stop, the girl Jessica one day meets a group of adults occupied with some very strange wishes.
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TVANG (THE DRIVE)
A comedy about a young couple who buys a house at a foreclosure auction. This is where they will be creating their lovely family, barbeque with their friends and relax after a hectic on their prestigious jobs. This house is going to be a proof of their successful life including…
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TVIND – THE MUSICAL
50 years ago, a pack of young people bought an old bus. They wanted to change the world… Shortly before this, Mogens Amdi Petersen has founded The Travelling Folk School and The Necessary Collage of Education, which later became the world-wide empire of Tvind. Tvind was a social project in…
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TWELFTH BATTLE OF ISONZO, THE
The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo features two characters obsessed with the idea and anticipation of sex with each other. The man is old and desiccated, the woman only 17, and both are blind. She appears first, dressed in bridal clothes and tapping her way with a cane she soon breaks…
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TWELVE
Five mothers recount the loss of their Black sons over the course of several centuries.
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TWELVE ANGRY MEN
This play was originally a TV drama, then it became a most successful film and here it is in a scenic version. It takes place in a jurors’ room in America where the verdict is a matter of life or death for a 19 year old boy who is convicted…
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Twenty50
In the year 2050, Latinx people have been assimilated into the (white) majority of the United States, but race issues are far from resolved. In this tricky political environment, Andres Salazar is running for office and must decide whether losing some of his own identity is worth the potential social…
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TWICE AROUND THE PARK
This is two hysterically funny one-act comedies. ‘A Need for Brussels Sprouts’ finds a middle-aged actor hoping to land a TV commercial for pizza by playing opera full blast in his apartment while pretending to be the tenor. Enter the irate lady cop who lives upstairs and intends to give…
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TWIGS
This is a family comedy about three sisters and their mother (all the female characters are to be performed by the same actress). The three middle aged sisters are of very different characters, living in very different environments, though with one thing in common; they all wish to emphasize how…
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TWO BLIND MICE
This farce is written by the author behind the libretto KISS ME KATE and UNDER THE SYCAMORE TREE. The play is a joke taken on the over-organised American public administration and revolves around two elderly ladies, who have got the somewhat special task of marketing natural remedies.
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TWO BROTHERS
“The problem with my brother is that he won’t give up his principles to get results.” Former Liberal Front bencher. This is the story of two brothers who fierce ideological fight rips their family apart, decimates their personal and political reputations and challenges the moral integrity of the nation. Eggs…
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TWO BROTHERS, THE
Two brothers, Mark and Andrew, meet again, after many years, at the home of their dying father, nay: the man is still alive, but in a condition that resembles death, immobilized in his bed unable to recognize even his own children, virtually little more than an object, day and night…
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TWO CHARACTER PLAY / OUT CRY
Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power in one of Tennessee Williams’ most personal, mystifying, haunting, provocative, and oftern funny works. Finding themselves deserted by their troupe and faced with an audience expecting a performance, actor/siblings Clare and Felice enact The Two-Character Play. As they dip in and out of…
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TWO DEGREES
Emma Phelps is a paleoclimatologist, focusing on ice in Greenland. In drilling and studying ice core samples, she sees first hand the symptoms of our changing planet, which makes the need to act all the more crucial and urgent. In addition, Emma, as a recent widow, experiences grief that compounds…
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TWO FOR THE SEESAW
This is a simple yet refined play about a man and a woman, who in their escape from loneliness find compassion and understanding in each other. In other words it is a romantic comedy holding a quick-witted dialog as well as two dream parts for really talented actors.
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TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
3 F / 9 M / Ballet A full-length musical in 2 acts 1 Set This is yet a modern adaptation of a Shakespeare play, and in this version it comes with an added rock music score. TWO MEN OF VERONA is the story of two friends; the noble Valentine…
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TWO INTO ONE
In this forerunner to OUT OF ORDER, Richard Willey M. P. is trying to seduce one of the Prime Minister’s secretaries. George Pigden, his aide, manages to bungle the whole plan leaving staff and guests reeling in confusion.
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TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SHIT UP
Diana and Max meet at 9 years old, the day their parents start having an affair. In the ensuing decades, they see each other through highs and lows, trying not to make the same mistakes their parents did. A play about trying not to fall in love with your best…
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TWO OF US, THE
Four one act plays to be played by the same two actors. BLACK AND SILVER, THE NEW QUIXOTE, THE FOOT and CHINAMEN; the common theme for all is marital eroticism, with a comic touch.
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TWO SISTERS, THE
An empty, indefinable space. Two young women, two sisters, waiting for a coach that will probably never come, meditate on their future; they are two actresses who have just seen their own small theater company go bankrupt. But this is not ‘Theatre in the Theatre “, nor a reflection on…
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TWO WEEKS WITH THE QUEEN
Adapted from the best-selling novel by Morris Gleitzman. Colin has a mission. He wants to speak to the Queen about his brother Luke who has cancer. Cousin Alistair would like to help but stress brings on his dandruff. Colin takes the lock off the back door and goes out alone.
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TWO-WAY MIRROR
ELEGY FOR A LADY and SOME KIND OF LOVE STORY can be played together under the title TWO-WAY MIRROR.
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TWO’S COMPANY
In this short monologue, first performed as part of a production of twelve one-person plays, a bigamist closes in on the moment when he realizes wife number two must know what’s going on but chooses not to say anything.
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TYPISTS, THE
The story takes place in an office, where Sylvia and Paul work. Sylvia is manager, single and living with her mother. Paul is a law student, married, father of two and has just started work. The play examines two very different stories about expectations, dreams and affiliation. Furthermore it focuses…
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ÜBER MORGEN
The two sisters, Alize and Gwenny are going to have a younger brother. They wonder how it will be and to solve the riddle they set out on a magical journey.
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ÜBER TIERE
In her very own manner, Jelinek deals with subjects such as sexuality, dependency and power. ÜBER TIERE consists of two parts: First part is the masochistic and unmerciful love monologue of a woman; the second part focuses on the sex industry, and is based on the Austrian Police’s interrogation protocols…
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ÜBERGEWICHT, UNWICHTIG: UNFORM
The action takes place in a tavern where the same mentally and socially deformed characters meet night after night.
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UBUDEN GJEST
The play takes place in an office of a Catholic church. Father Filip has just returned from Rome when a young woman, Lisa, crashes in. She is a drug addict, a prostitute, and on the run from a recent robbery. The play explores the confrontations between the career-minded, arrogant, young…
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UFORGLEMMELIGE KYS
The story takes place in Copenhagen in a not too distant future. Europe is dominated by the party, The Hermeneutical Light Corps, which is having a summit meeting in the capital city with great coverage by the media. Rufus is an acknowledged poet. Slowly he senses how his poetic freedom…
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ULRIKE MARIA STUART (KÖNIGINNENDRAMA)
Jelinek interweaves Schiller’s heroines, Maria Stuart and Queen Elisabeth, with the modern German history: The actresses playing Maria Stuart and Queen Elisabeth fight a verbal duel in which ideologies rage against each other. Jelinek creates a linguistic network of erotica and politics based on Schiller’s stanza, references from contemporary history…
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ULRIKE MEINHOF SINGS
An intense monodrama about Ulrike Meinhof and the Baader-Meinhof group which in the 70’ies caused death and disaster in its fight for a better world. Barnett has written an intelligent text about Meinhof in the Stammheim prison just before she committed suicide and so the result is an account of…
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ULRIKE MONDZEIT – NEONZEIT
Two monologues about two radical women’s lives: Ulrike von Kleist and Ulrike Meinhof. The interpretation of the relationship between the two siblings, Heinrich and Ulrike von Kleist, is based on extensive studies – however, the author uses her poetic freedom. The second part is dedicated to Ulrike Meinhof, who plays…
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ULVETIME
Two men, who are fans of different football teams, automatically become each others’ rivals and enemies. One is a government officer in the ministry of foreign affairs; the other is a proletarian baker. In their nightly meetings, a love-hate relationship develops between the two men, involving both physical and psychic…
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UN CURIOSO ACCIDENTE
The daughter of a rich Dutch merchant looks longingly past her scheming father to her French lieutenant suitor. As the lovers hatch a plan to trap the merchant with his own words, their servants – a pair of quick-witted schemers themselves – realize they have fallen madly in love with…
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UN HABIT POUR L’HIVER
In the best sense, but with the worst intention, three elderly men size up each other. A quirky and funny play with grotesque impacts to the poetic … It will be a long, but not boring winter.
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UN HOMME TROP FACILE
Actor adored by the public, Alex, the pleasant and tolerant man, gets ready to come on stage for the “première” of Misanthrope when Alceste, the truth, the man in the green ribbons of Molière, appears to him in the mirror of his dressing room. Once his amazement went by, the…
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UN NOMMÉ JUDAS
An investigation of the nature of solitude and individual responsibility.
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UN REGARD SUR LE MONDE (A LOOK AT THE WORLD)
The play immerses us in the universe of two women of different cultures: one German and one Iranian. The two women share their points of view on the world, in a polyphony of anecdotes and poetry. Spurred by the thought that Europe (or the western world in general) currently is…
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UNA DONNA SOLA
Locked up in a flat, a solitary woman makes her confession. Amid domestic chores, dodgy phone calls, a sex-mad brother-in-law and a forever screaming baby she tells us the story of how her love for a young student led to her imprisonment at the hands of her jealous husband. Through…
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UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE
The story of a housewife and her neighbor who stay at home in Rome on the day that Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini.
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UNATTAINABLE, THE
Caroline and her husband have lived separately for ten years. From an obituary she one day learns of his dead. Could the way for her longtime admirer, Robert or the young romantic, Rex, now be open? Her curious friends urge her to marry Robert. But Caroline comes to the conclusion…
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UNCLE VANYA (BRIAN FRIEL)
Two lives, Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya, are at the core of this play. They work their small estate, live frugally and keep their emotions tightly reined in. Then they are visited by a relative, Professor Serebryakov, and his beautiful young wife, Elena. Vanya falls helplessly in love with…
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UNCLE VANYA (Conor McPherson)
Conor McPherson’s vividly simple and stripped-down version of Chekov’s classic about unrequited love, aging and disappointment infuses the original with heartfelt humour, modern language and an energetic pace without removing the melancholic poetry of the original text. A perfect tragicomedy (The Guardian).
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UNCLE VANYA (MAMET)
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet’s Uncle Vanya is a sparkling restoration of a masterpiece of the modern stage, marked by Mamet’s finely tuned ear for dialogue and memorable poetic imagery. In Uncle Vanya, a retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to the country estate left by his deceased…
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UND
An intense excavation into the experience of waiting, conviction and desperation. A woman, Und, is waiting before a tea tray for an un-named, unknown caller. Perhaps the caller is involved in some kind of fascist activity. Und, it seems, is a Jew pretending to be an aristocrat. Yet she also…
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UND DANN KAM MIRNA
Why become a mother when I hate my own? The young desperadoes from Sibylle bergs UND JETZT: DIE WELT! ODER ES SAGT MIR NICHTS, DAS SOGENNANNTE DRAUSSEN have become mothers and so a new madness breaks out. The glorious career never happened and the awareness of being appallingly average increases…
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UND JETZT – DIE WELT ODER ES SAGT MIR NICHTS, DAS SOGENANNTE DRAUSSEN
Best German play 2014 (Theater Heute). A young woman in an apartment. The outside world is dangerous and filled with careerism, gyms, stress and the shame of not being successful enough. There are so many possibilities, she can do everything, but what should she do? No, it’s safer to stay…
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UND SICHER IST MIT MIR DIE WELT VERSCHWUNDEN
Sibylle Berg’s heroine looks back on her life, relationships and hopes. Did her rebellious efforts have an effect on the world at all? The last in Sibylle Berg’s tetralogy, which began with UND JETZT: DIE WELT! ODER ES SAGT MIR NICHTS, DAS SOGENANNTE DRAUßEN and continued with UND DANN KAM…
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UND WIE DIE WELT SO WEIT
A talented young man greets World War II welcome in the hope that he can now fulfill all of his dreams. Although he only wants to live well and in peace, he accepts war as a possibility for a new personal beginning. In this play, Müller deals with the psychological…
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UNDER BARNEHAGEN
A poetic text for the smallest about death and what happens after we die. A little bird crashes against a window, dies and is buried by some children of the kindergarten. The dead bird becomes part of nature’s cycle and meets on its way fossils and remains of life that…
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UNDER GLASLOFTET
UNDER GLASLOFTET is a network narrative that connects 5 destinies. The hard-working single woman Kate is trying on on shoes, when she is attacked and humiliated by a sexist clerk, who ends up selling her a pair of stilettos, which consequently gets her male colleagues, Jussi and Alex’s, attention. Kate…
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UNDER MILK WOOD
This masterpiece is by the hand of the deceased Welsh poet, in which he describes life in a small town in Wales in the course of 24 hours on a spring day. So during the play Thomas takes us through the small fisherman’s village, introducing us to its everyday inhabitants…
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UNDER THE BLACK ROCK
Under the Black Rock is a gripping, suspenseful and fast-moving thriller set in Belfast in 1979 at the height of The Troubles. Told through the tragic stories of the members of the war-torn Ryan family, Under the Black Rock is a stark reminder of the trauma that the conflict in Northern Ireland brought…
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UNDER THE SYCAMORE TREE
If ants could speak, if they could love and hate and dream and philosophize like humans, how would they react to the present state of the world?
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