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Michael Palin’s first stage play takes a look at family values, which is not only funny but also has its darker side. It is about an elderly gentleman, Stephen Febble, who must endure a weekend with his daughter, her dreary husband, and their precocious child

A free version of Aristophanes’ “Assemblywomen”. A group of women, led by the wise and redoubtable Praxagora, has decided that the women of Athens must convince the men to give them control of the city, as they are convinced they can do a better job. Disguised as men, the women…

A woman lives in the mountains with her debilitated husband. She is very keen to have a baby but all she gets is silk. Her husband earns his money by smuggling, which is soon noticed by a frontier guard, who shortly gets to seduce the woman. She, however, quickly realizes…

A lovestory about two young outsiders.

A handful of single men are all regulars in a remote Irish pub where they in turn, excel in telling ghost stories. Then one day, when a woman named Valerie moves into the neighbourhood, they eagerly compete to impress her with the best story. However, she takes them all by…

A play inspired by the authentic events regaring the so-called “U-Bahn thugs from Munich”. It’s about the three teenagers – Sedat, Aaron and Nurit – who live in a world filled with themes and conflicts they cannot identify with and which overwhelm them. Everyday situations are getting more and more…

The theme of Tony Marchant’s WELCOME HOME is the guilt and anger of war survivors – staged in 1983 and later filmed by the BBC. The play follows the course of four squaddies in the Parachute regiment and their corporal from the time they prepare to disembark until their return…

The title piece, Welcome to the Moon, is a reunion among friends at a Bronx bar, where sooner or later, everybody confesses their secret love.

This is one of O’Neill’s most autobiographical works, a play based on the love-hate affair between the playwright and his second wife, Agnes Boulton changed from a novelist to an actress. Written in 1924.

A collection of early Robert Gernhardt texts from the satirical magazine Pardon.

Weltenbrand won the prize for best youth play at Heidelberger Stückemarkt in 2015. The starting point is April 22, 1915, the day on which the Germans introduce the first weapon of mass destruction: Poison gas. The Germans did not win the war, but they changed its face forever. Starting from…

Nadja hasn’t left the apartment for weeks. She is careful, because she’s afraid. Nevertheless she agrees to meet with Andy, who’s full of expectations for a rendezvous with her. There’s gin and tonic and peanuts, but the evening doesn’t evolve as Andy had imagined. Joan and John are the perfect…

A provincial town in the south of Germany: Because he liked to dress in women’s clothing, Wendel was a victim of slander and send off to an asylum by the Third Reich. In the 60s, he returns to his hometown. Informers from back then are now dignitaries and Wendel becomes…

As always, Johanna comes home from school to an empty apartment. She is a key child and already pretty independent. But she’s actually only eight years old and is afraid that the Queen of the Power, a character from her imagination, will call. After an eventful afternoon Johanna states: “When…

The story of a mass murderer of the 16th century.

Join Eric the Red on his expedition to Northern America, listen to Jeanne D’Arc sing gospel and see if Djengis Khan and Adolf Hitler are able to sing a duet. Travel through several world wars, from Mona Lisa to Einstein, from one great man to another – and one single…

1953 in a small Bavarian town: In their new home, a group of Silesian and Sudeten Germans erect a large wooden hut as a house for the youth. They’re trying to save what can no longer stand to be saved and to pass on the memory of an old culture…

When Andy, an idealistic young graduate, gets a job in a wet house, a homeless hostel where residents can drink alcohol, he is plunged into a twilight world where the rules about what is right and what is normal have become a little blurred. And that’s just among the other…

Billy Roche’s THE WEXFORD TRILOGY consists of the full length plays BELFRY, POOR BEAST IN THE RAIN and A HANDFULL OF STARS. For synopsis of the three plays please see under each title.

Based on the personal experience of the actor Sancia Robinson, this play bravely examines the nightmare of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia, from the perspective of one who has made it through to the sanity of self – acceptance. Brimming with courage, humour and poignancy. Published by Currency Press 1995 Premiere…

The Prentices are not an ordinary couple. Dr. Prentice is a psychiatrist with his own hospital who believes that the best way to interview a girl for a job is to seduce her. Geraldine does her best to comply, but nothing is going to work smoothly in this nut house…

The play was written in 1983 initially in French as QUOI OÙ and translated by Samuel Beckett himself. In WHAT WHERE, four characters appear at intervals, all dressed in the same long grey gown with the same long grey hair. Bam controls and interrogates the others, sending them off “to…

The stage play adaptation of Henry Farrell’s famous thriller novel about two aging and rival sisters. The child star, Baby Jane, soon ended in oblivion as her sister, Blanche’s career flourished. When a mysterious car accident cripples Blanche , the bitter Baby Jane becomes her evil imprisoner in their isolated…

This hilarious farce begins quietly enough with Howard and Penny asleep. A burglar climbs through the window and steals various items, including Howard’s suit. Awakening, Howard announces his intention to get back to his wife! But how can he in only vest and underpants? Before you can say “jockey shorts”…

Based on a very popular British sit-com, this riotously-funny play is classic British sex-farce. When Mildred and Ethel go off on a trip to Paris, the “mice will play”. Egged on by Ethel’s philandering husband Humphrey Pomfrey, George agrees to invite two charming little sex-kittens over. Well, you know already…

In the process of getting control of her life after her husband’s death, Jane is invaded by cruel memories of the physical and sexual abuse her stepfather Cecil put her through when she was a child. Consumed with anger and pain, and with a kitchen knife in her purse, she…

This epic piece covers four generations and two continents. The play takes place in a claustrophobic flat in London during the 1950ies as well as the windy shores of Southern Australia and the heart of a futuristic Australian desert in the year 2039. In WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING, a…

Here a drug smuggling gangster is forced to stop over in New Mexico while his car is being fixed. To kill time, he sets out terrorizing the other motel guests in a most manipulating and cunning manner, though despite his brutal sadism and abuse, it is obvious that he is…

Magnus, Arni and Dori are brothers. Magnus is dating Gudrun. Arni is dating Halla, who is Magnus’ ex-girlfriend. Halla is having an affair with Dori. And magnus is also having an affair with Halla. Such is the basic situation in this clever and entertaining radio play, ending in murder. The…

Two mature women meet at a funeral. One is the daughter of the deceased, the other the best friend. The two women haven’t met before, and when it turns out that the urn has not yet arrived, they start passing the time sharing their memories. The memories are very contradictory…

These are vignettes about growing up in America of the 50’s and 60’s, linked together by a folk-rock score.

WHITE LIARS revolves around Sophie Lemberg, an eccentric and disillusioned fortune teller (who imagines herself to be a baroness of the Holy Roman Empire) living in a decaying seaside resort, and the two young men – Tom, the lead singer in a rock band, and Frank, his business manager –…

WHO DUNNIT is a comic spoof of the detective thriller genre a la Agatha Christie. This Broadway success by the author of SLEUTH takes audiences to Agatha Christie’s England, where six strangers and a butler have gathered for a black tie dinner in a wealthy lawyer’s mansion during a thunderstorm.…

Obsessed with a girl called Sylvia, whom he kissed just once at a garden party when he was 17, Mark makes a habit of pursuing physically identical girls for the rest of his life – despite having a wife and growing son. We meet him – and Oscar, his fellow…

A classic British thriller with unexpected twists. The mediocre dramatist John Terry has lured the respected theatre critic Arthur “Agatha” Christie to his flat for a secret meeting. The irritable and arrogant critic is shocked to learn that his homosexual lover is having an affair with the dramatist’s young wife.…

This play is a series of four intertwining stories of fringe-dwellers, living in an age of social, economic and moral deprivation. Mostly out of work, and politically uninterested, they work at survival. A gritty portrayal of real life in an urban wasteland. Winner 1999 Australian Writer’s Guild Award for Best…

Set in a hospital room, the action revolves around Ken Harrison, a sculptor by profession, who was paralysed from the neck down in a car accident and is determined to be allowed to die. Clark presents arguments both in favour of and opposing euthanasia and to what extent government should…

The story takes place in a fashionable flat in Saint Louis. Lily is a young intellectual (and temperamental) heavily smoking woman who just finished school. Her philistine widow mother, Mrs. Yorke, is an intense critic of her hopeless daughter who refuses to marry and does not like to crochet like…

Secrets, Lies & P45’s! When John Bailey loses his job as a civil engineer his life seems to fall apart. John struggles to come to terms with being a house husband whilst watching his wife Helen run a successful business of her own. He also has to cope with his…

George Clarke is a respected member of the Establishment, a Civil Servant living in a converted flat in Hampstead. One evening, a very pregnant hippy arrives on his doorstep from a flat upstairs. At the height of their differences, Louise’s labour pains begins and so George takes charge.

An adaptation of Dorfman’s moving novel set in a Greek village in 1942 where the corpses of “disappeared” men wash ashore. The village women claim the bodies as husbands and fathers, even though their faces are unrecognizable. A tug of war ensues between the local police, who insist the women…

Wieland is an artist and the best blacksmith for miles around. He has forged the magic ring Alberich and he is often used by the King. Wieland is in love with the king’s daughter, Bathilde. But instead of getting her he’s being tortured and banished to a desert island. To…

talk / nothing / people. a criminal piece / I’m looking for flowers in petrol / things. / holiday makers / doors

George and Linda Harper’s 17 years old marriage has gone stale. George moves out and Linda has a chance to ‘find herself’. However, when George returns to the family home a few weeks later, to sort out maintenance, he and Linda discover that the flames of passion are not quite…

When the story opens, we find Jameson and Renaldo amongst table and chairs, deciding if they can live together in the world or not. They share their water and peanuts as they tear each other down to gain the upper hand. Jameson shoots Renaldo dead. Just in time, for Ramona…

The adaptation, of the early written and very long Tjekhov comedy PLATINOV, is so freely done that it is more often considered to be a work of Frayn than of Tjekhov. Obviously, the themes belong to Tjekhov; bankruptcy of the landed gentry, the intellectuals’ dilettantism, the boredom of provincial life…

In this play, eight people are participating in a dangerous role play where eventually, the line between game and reality diminishes. And that makes it some what of a psychological thriller about the high-tech time in which we live. Most certainly a thought-provoker.

Shenja Keil’s absurd debut play takes place in a forest among huge and small creatures.

The ‘Follies’ created by Ziegfeld, was revues of endless female dancers walking up and down a set of steps with a variety of shows and celebrity names. This show THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES is equally rich on dancers performing on steps and from the rooftops the phantom voice of Florenz…

Escaping their lives in Manhattan, former college buddies Matt and Davis take off to the Netherlands and find themselves thrown into a bizarre love triangle with a beautiful young prostitute named Christina. But the romance they find in Europe is eventually overshadowed by the truth they discover at home. Written…

In his version of the adventures of Snow White and Red Riding Hood, Friedrich Karl Waechter focuses on only four voices. It is the story about the longing for love, jealousy and vindictiveness. Radio play.

This is a psychological study of a blind voyeur, who hires a male nurse to watch through binoculars the activities of the girl in the flat opposite who has driven him to attempt suicide.

This remarkable play confirms the terror and hope in the human drama. Emily Stilson, a former aviatrix and stunt pilot, suffers a stroke in her seventies and is plunged into a disoriented world. Her mind has short-circuited her contact with the outside world. The doctors seem to be speaking gibberish…

Elfriede Jelinek follows in the footsteps of the wanderers from Franz Schubert’s famous song cycle “Winterreise”. Her “Winter’s Journey” begins with the insanity of the present day, touching on banking scandals and the plight of kidnapping victims before heading more clearly towards autobiographical territory: Jelinek’s complicated relationship with her mother…

“Winterset” intertwines the stories of three people struggling to escape their unhappy ties to a past crime. Written in a combination of prose and blank verse, the play develops a tragic love story at the same time as it explores thematic questions about the natures of both justice and death.

Jaap sitting with his parents inside a cave and is not permitted to go out do not because his parents warn him against the dangers of the vicious world. But one day Jaap hears stories about how wonderful the world may be and his curiosity about the reality outside the…

A polyphonic battle that follows a football match, with expert commentaries and live reports from the stadium. The voices on the national team are also a reflection on the nation’s situation. An intelligent metaphor for Germany at the beginning of the new millennium.

Two couples meet for an apartment exchange. Hannah will spend some time in Zurich to teach Zen classes to stressed-out bank managers. Her boyfriend Sebastian is supposed to accompany her. During that time Roman, a computer scientist, is moving into their apartment; his professional interest is to observe a satellite…

Set in a Swiss hotel in the mountains, a couple of ”Wessis” is holding a seminar where they’re going to turn six ”Ossis” into becoming smart businessmen capable of navigating in the Western consumer economy.

The theme has mythical greatness – it’s taken from the Old Norse Edda: it’s about power, life and death. In clear pictures we’re told about the power struggle between the gods and the giants, and the doomed love affair between the giant daughter Skaði and Odin’s son Balder.

It is the week before Christmas – high season for family conflicts and crisis in love relationships. But apart from that, there is little in this play that resembles the stereotypical images of the bourgeois yule-tide celebrations, we know so well. For none of the characters in this play –…

A trilogy about life in a country town in WA between 1920-1970, it tells the saga of shopkeepers, farmers, local drunks, the Bank Manager, a mad lay preacher, Aborigines and young lovers set against the changing fortunes of Jarrabin – flood, fire, war, racism, the rising salt, and an Aboriginal…

The inspiration here for Turrini, is Goldonis’ comedy ‘La Lovandiera’. And so this tragicomic play is a gruesome and bitter game about money, power and social differences.

Tamsin packs boxes in a warehouse, on the clock, with a zero-hour contract. Her brother Dean is housebound. Working to obsessive-compulsive rituals of his own. When Dean is declared fit for work and his benefits are cut, Tamsin must fight to get the support she and her brother so desperately…

This Pulitzer Prize winning play, revolves around the acclaimed literary professor, Vivien Bearing who is suddenly diagnosed with incurable cancer. And so with all her intellectual might and merciless wit, for which she was feared in university circles, she sets herself up against the illness and the cocksureness of hospitals…

The orphan, Luke, is on a holiday with his grandmother. At the same time at their hotel a conference of witches is being held and when Luke learns that they plan to turn all children into mice, he decides to put an end to their evil plans.

A look at the Northern Ireland crisis and how it tears one family apart on political and religious grounds.

During a 1943 air raid in Newcastle, Wittgenstein and his neighbours meet in the basement, where he has taken his young male lover. Confronted with bigotry and cluelessness, as well as the enlightened mind of 13 year old Sandra, Wittgenstein gives a brief and humorous lesson on the notion of…

Fitzgerald Kusz has made playful, ironic and sad thoughts about the fact of being a widow and compiled them in this tragic comedy revue about women of all ages, from young to the very old.

This is the new musical version of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is by Frank L. Baum. It is packed with rock, gospel and soul songs but is likely to be better known from the film, starring among others Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. Naturally it is the everlasting story about…

This sensational Australian drama comes with several awards. And quite right so. In a most gripping way, it deals with an issue that inevitably changes the lives of the people involved. As what makes a child commit murder? The story takes place in a far away town in Tasmania, where…

A fable about the survival of the fittest, of friendship, solidarity and resistance.

A man and a woman meet in a classroom, but it’s not clear who’s teaching who. Everything seems to be possible in what looks like to be a boring hour of lecture.

A monologue on identity and homeland in a highly artificial prose verse and manic “we-form,” which revolves around the exclusion of the strange or different. The source of this weave of quotations is the idealist philosophy and German language poetry, which is considered the origin of German Nationalism. The Germans,…

Few Dramatists master the art of combining subtle poetry with deadly drama. Carr masters the art, and it is always a pleasure to be seduced by her language and absorbed by her mysterious and often chilling universes – if one dares. Death is always lurking behind the corner and in…

The comic poet of middle class life, always so very funny, goes deeper and darker in this triumphant play about a housewife named Susan who is married to a boring cleric named George. After getting knocked out by stepping on the tooth-end of a garden rake, Susan experiences hilarious hallucinations…

Louis Nowra’s Australian family trilogy, ”The Boyce Trilogy” consists of the plays ”The Woman With Dog’s Eyes”, ”The Marvellous Boy” and ”The Emperor Of Sydney”. Property developer Boyce has one goal in life: to complete his final prestige project before his illness finishes him off and the sons take over…

In this hilarious satire on B movies of the 1950’s, Mary-Eleanor, an innocent duped into crime, lands in the Greenwich Village Woman’s House of Detention which is presided over by a massive matron with taste for sadism and female flesh. Poor Mary-Eleanor ends up hardened and cynical, but that’s just…

Described by the author as “an Upper West Side story,” this provocative, brilliantly stylized and often very funny play delves into the lives of three upscale Manhattan female “yuppies” whose financial success is counterbalanced by their unmet emotional needs.

This is the only preserved piece from Euripides’ three tragedies that deal with the prelude to the battle of Troy, the battle itself and the postlude. Affected by the most violent wars of his time, Euripides provided a horrendous portrayal of the brutality of the victors and the despair of…

1 Act / 3M, 5F /Chorus of women / Possible doubling / A radio version is also available Euripides’ Tragedy is a frightening parable of the after-math of war: Hecuba, dethroned queen of defeated Troy, must see her city burned, her family humiliated, as she and her women wait to…

Best friends Vera and Anna have lots in common both being the wrong side of 40, experiencing marriage troubles as well as sharing a love of Irish singing sensation Daniel O’Donnell. During a trip to Donegal to see their idol live in concert they come face to face with the…

The play is an acidic commentary on the pampered lives and power struggles of various wealthy Manhattan socialites and up-and-comers and the gossip that propels and damages their relationships. While men frequently are the subject of their lively discussions and play an important role in the action on-stage, they are…

With this play, we are taken back to Friel’s Ballybeg, where three couples are sitting on the pier, awaiting the boat to take them to ‘The Mysterious and Different Island’. They spend the night and hours of anticipation singing, discussing serious matters as well as narrating good stories and all…

The last remaining human beings are kept in a kind of lunatic asylum where they’re watched over by robots who have taken over the world. The text is a dialogue between man and machine about the perfect life in the digital age, the stress and all the craziness humans puts…

The Yirralong people have lodged a native title claim for the right to “possess, occupy and enjoy their ancestral lands”. Lon, a third generation pastoralist is terrified that his dream of passing the family property on to his son-in-law will be shattered. As the pressure mounts, long buried secrets begin…

This is one of Mamet’s earliest efforts (1977), an intense, tough-minded yet ultimately affecting love story about the conflicts and contradictions of a struggling young relationship. It is a two-character drama in three swiftly moving acts, and it centres on Ruth and Nick, a 20-something couple attempting a romantic weekend…

Rose, a shy five-and-dime salesgirl whose life centres on reveries and daydreams, lives in a dreary Philadelphia apartment. Into her life saunters Cliff, a hard-working, hard-drinking truck driver. He is rough and witty and just as starved for love as she is. This little gem of a play features several…