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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…

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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…

2 Acts / 2M (mid 50s, mid 20s) 1F (mid 50s) Frank, approaching death, talks for the last time to his son. They try to surmount the obstacles of sexuality, education, even class, that separate them Robert and his mother, Kath, are now confronted with the need to invent lives…

Inspired by Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Ange. The action takes place in a politician’s villa where a large company is invited for a midnight snack after the premiere of Verdi’s Othello. The company is soon being spellbound by the hand of an unexplained paralysis, and as the night approaches they…

A monodrama written for an older actress. In school, the play’s protagonist falls in love with the popular boy of her class. To her own amazement, she later marries him. Here starts the marital martyrdom. She loses her voice and eventually kills her him. In prison, from which the story…

Howard Barker’s controversial work explores the way in which we see ourselves and others through the character of the human face. The physiognomy of the face is central to our relationship with the outside world. It is the first thing we see when meeting strangers and the first they see…

“Very existential,” was how Thornton Wilder once described his short play The Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five, an intimate drama about a man who is unexpectedly challenged to reexamine his life. The play explores life, marriage, work and family.

The play tells the story of the brothers Clive and David Rodingham, who inherit the family fortune upon the death of their father. They then meet business man Charles and his wife Julie, a would-be thriller writer. Charles is anxious to work with the brothers on property deals, and so…

A ‘behind-the-scenes’ story of Harry, a successful playwright who decides he is going to make some ‘real money’ by writing scripts for a long running TV soap opera, ‘Diamond Hill’. But no sooner has he joined the team than he discovers that all is not as straight forward as he…

Variable cast. In the ancient mythology, the goddess Hera blinds the hero Hercules to eliminate his own family in rage. In 2015, the gods have other names; also the god of the religious fanatics behind the terrorist attacks in Paris, which are the basis of the material in WUT. Jelinek…

This play revolves around Mr. and Mrs. Elliot, who are harassed one day by a young diabolic computer hacker. Henceforth, their identities are totally played about with, so utterly powerless they witness how she is pictured as a porn star while he is displayed as the leader of a paedophile…

An entertainment, based on the life and writings of Jonathan Swift.

This short play examines a theme from Anton Chekhov’s short story, ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’, which Chekhov wrote in Yalta in the autumn of 1899. The Yalta Game tells the story of an accountant who holidays alone, leaving his wife and family behind in Moscow. While away, he…

David Hare was in charge of the staging of the Broadway version of Joan Didion’s National Book Award bestseller from 2005. Vanessa Redgrave played Didion. The play depicts the year after the death of her husband, author John Gregory Dune – at that time, her daughter Quintana was also seriously…

Yellow Moon is a modern Bonnie and Clyde tale that follows the fortunes of two teenagers on the run. Silent Leila is an introverted girl who has a passion for celebrity magazines. Stag Lee Macalinden is the deadest of dead-end kids in a dead-end town. They never meant to get…

The original writers of the classic BBC TV series reunited for a new satirical take on Whitehall. Prime Minister Jim Hacker and his Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby are back, spinning out of control through the collapsing euro and austerity measures in a world of 24 hour news, Blackberrys and…

One of the most successful comedies in Broadway history. The theme is sex, in all its puzzling and fascinating manifestations, and the treatment of this is so skilful, tasteful and explosively funny that the plays are not only captivating and touching but universal in appeal.

1 Act / 15 performers A play about being young and Tasmanian, living on an island and dreaming of leaving it and fearing the separation from it.

Premiering on Broadway with Montgomery Clift and Edmund Gwenn in leading roles, this comedy is about the triumph of an old sea captain over a sadistic spinster sister was an early triumph for Tennessee Williams. Although the home in which she lived and ruled and the income on which she…

The play is a musical portraying an average day in the life of Charlie Brown. While eating his packed lunch in the schoolyard he dreams about the little ginger haired girl Lucy. Linus is utterly fanatic about his sop while Charlie Brown’s dog Snoopy spends its time imagining being somebody…

This play concerns a therapist, who desperately tries to help a seriously disturbed client. One day, while the client rattles on about shoes and belts, he suddenly recalls a dream about his mother, which leads the therapist to believe that the treatments may be coming to an end.

This is a modern rock-musical based on the classic TWELFTH NIGHT. Orson is the manager of the pop band Apocalypse, which has been reduced to a trio, as the fourth band member has been summoned to the army. The two twins, Viola and Sebastian have previously performed together, before they…

The action takes place at the beginning of the 1800s, and tells the story of Diego Vega – a young wealthy nobleman who returns home to California after his grandfather’s death in Spain. His homecoming will be anything but happy, the country is in turmoil because of the Governors exorbitant…

This is the story of two Afghan girls under the Taliban regime and in the turmoil of war. They meet in a refugee camp and as different as they are, they share the same fate: both have lost their family. Their common survival strategy is to mutually share their roots,…

A monologue about the cat, Zanki Fransenohr who lives in the streets of the Greek island of Crete and the spoiled luxury cat, Fredo, who has been forced to travel with his owner on holiday against its will. As the cat lady, Turi suddenly comes in danger both male cats…

A comedy about the fear of failing: three worn out actors are trying to revive their supposedly glorious past. It becomes a race against time…

This is a Swedish play for young people and is about a Lebanese girl and a Finnish/Swedish guy. They are in the same class and do not care about each other even though the girl is very focused on boys. The guy has not yet begun to give girls a…

A grotesque dream play – a dance of death for two illegal immigrants. Sami and Ali have fled to the south of Europe. For a starvation wages, they work in greenhouses. Soon, the two friends must realize that they will always be hunted and seen as an outcast: Annoying as…

A dreamplay about four men in search of a new form of existence on the other side of the traditional role pattern.

Throughout her life, Zelda Fitzgerald stood in the shadow of her famous husband, Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Her own literary talent was first given the public’s attention late in life. In this monologue, we see her one evening shortly before she burned to death at the mental sanatorium she was hospitalized…

A playful variation on Deichsel’s “Frankenstein’s Curse”. The Frankenstein theme is converted into an independent horror picture – cruel and simultaneously comical.

A harassed inner monologue and a hasty line of thoughts in a female terrorist’s mind the minutes before she makes her misdeed. The thoughts belongs to an individual, who feels destined to something higher; who again and again asks herself if her action is suicide or a heroic act, who’s…

Love, sex, violence and tragedy set in an Australian prison.

Open stage musical for young people. The fantastical adventures of two Australian teenagers.

The play begins in front of a zoological garden. In a twisted language, Specht gives a (sur)real portrait of a society of fortune hunters who verbally sniff at each other in front of the cages to others who runs a vicious play of pecking ordering. In the play’s second part…