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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…

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…

A radio play about a girl who becomes a woman during the Chinese Revolution.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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,…

“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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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…

A political comedy about the new Hungary after the fall of communism.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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.

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…

About a killjoy socialist schoolmaster, around whose domestic life dark stormclouds gather during a rare trip to the south of France.

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…

An existential nightmare about three couples on vacation: the play portrays their desires, hatred, boredom, drunkenness and affairs.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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.

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.

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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.

Three brothers and a sister are trying to retain their father, who’s tempted by extramarital affairs.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.