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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…

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…

The story of a housewife and her neighbor who stay at home in Rome on the day that Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini.

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…

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…

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).

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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?

The main hospital. A woman waits for answers on some tests. In a passage under the hospital, she meets a very special homeless person who asks her for a gift. In return he will give her something she could never imagine. But what?

Friends gather in order to bury a friend, who has died from AIDS. Afterwards they travel to Ireland in order to spread the ashes of the deceased and through this journey they all get to reflect upon their own lives; their fear of getting HIV, as well as fear of…

In this play, Christian Lollike takes Karlheinz Stockhausen’s famous quote as his starting point: “The terror attack on WTC in 2001 was the greatest and most ultimate work of art at any time”. A choir consisting of four rootless youngsters discuss this piece of art, a.k.a. 9/11, and the subsequent…

The text follows the rehearsals for an Undine-play. The actor who should have played Undine has not arrived and instead a young woman effortlessly takes the big lead. There seems to be a mysterious connection between her and the play’s director.

This is the author’s first full-length play which was presented as a reading at the Betty Nansen Theatre, Copenhagen during 2001. The bases for this play are the carers and the residents of the home for elderly people “Frydendal”. With great authority and a formidable style Lollike brings stanza of…

A fitting and very entertaining trilogy about women and men, produced with great success at Kaleidoskop and Det Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen from 2004 – 2007. The plays KRIG (WAR), UNDSKYLD! (SORRY!) and PIS (PISS) can be performed together or separately. In UNDSKYLD! (SORRY!), subtitled ”I am able to work…

Torben is going on a vacation to Crete, and he asks his friend and neighbor, Kaj, to keep an eye on his apartment: Water the flowers, pick up the newspaper and such. The job also includes an unusual task: to pick up the phone when Lisbeth calls and come up…

A version of the ancient Greek drama “Iphigenia in Aulis”.

What do you do when the person you love falls for someone else?  Nothing could be easier: remove the « other »!  To do this, find a look-alike and ask him or her to disgust the person you love. A great idea!  Unless the lookalike comes face to face with the original…

For a long time, Reza wanted to write a play about actors. Her own experiences as an actress are included in this text, a text using the principle of the Russian Matroshka dolls: a play within the play within the play. The actors rehearse for ‘a Spanish play’, in which…

In this intimate ghost story, Mary Jane Kelly has a problem. She’s a pound forty behind in her rent, her window is broken, she has lost her key, and her boyfriend just moved out. And it’s 1888—not a good time to be poor and “unfortunate” on the streets of London.…

April and May are two blue-eyed Danish teenage twins. They bike to school singing – being carefree – until the day they meet Frida, the new girl in their class. A triangle begins! A satirical text about forbidden love and dangerous ideologies accompanied by fabulous lyrics.

At once a twisted comedy and an existential soul drama about three old and very different school friends, who – with old-age and deaths – within reach – meet once a year in order to share their thoughts and life experiences. This time the meeting has a fatal outcome, when…

This monologue is based on Einer Már Gudmundsson’s novel which won the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1995. This is schizophrenic Paul’s description of his own birth and tragic death – and everything in between. From the childhood encounters in a fifties’ middleclass family to the turbulent sixties with…

This play is an anti-war allegory that aims at illuminating the fact that humans have always possessed the need to conquer and destroy each other and how this urge has managed to remain throughout centuries, now causing an actual danger of total ruin of mankind, rather than just being a…

Three couples meet in their terraced gardens. They’re delighted to be home owners, but the gardens are a source of constant worry as weeds are spreading. It can only come from Mr. Krause’s organic garden and they decide to teach this Mr. Krause a lesson…

There’s nothing like being audited to remind you that everything comes at a cost. Ben O’Sullivan (Russell Dykstra) is having a bad day at the family-run clothing factory. He’s back from a business trip to find his brother drunk, his father ripping off suits, his mother dying (again) and his…

Innocence is long lost and no one seems to be on the right track in this powerful play. Dea Loher connects poetry and politics when she tells stories from the edge of society. Bizarre stories about poorly adjusted people, who are basically innocent, but seem to carry all the guilt…

Scene for a swimmer, a baritone and a women’s choir. A theatrical argumentation for the East German swimmer, Silvia Esther’s internationally not recognized world record, because it was done naked.

Dumped by his girlfriend and abandoned by his friends, Jan finds himself on the streets, a witness to the extraordinary, terrible events unfolding in the city around him – events for which he starts to consider himself responsible.

In the early 1900s, feisty tomboy Molly Tobin wrestles with her three younger brothers[8]and tells them and her father that she wants to learn to read and write and to find a rich husband (“I Ain’t Down Yet”). Molly makes her way to the Saddle Rock saloon in Leadville, Colorado…

Arranged by Norman L. Berman Explicit songs such as ”If Ever Married I’m” (KISS ME KATE), the lovely “After You Who” (THE GAY DIVORCE), and other less known examples from the genius Cole Porter. Some of Porter’s standard works are also included in this unique tribute to one the most…

Paul Niemand, a consultant in his late forties, is sought after through the air port speakers for the tenth time. The gate closes, boarding is completed. Paul hears his name again and again. And he enjoys it. For once, he isn’t efficient. He’s standing completely still. He’s cold. A man…

Over a weekend, a family and neighbors exercises life in a nuclear bunker. A comedy about the strained attempts to deal with the fear of the worst.

An artdealer decides to make a fortune when one of Jackson Pollack’s pictures are secretly put on sale. During a private auction she plays the wealthy buyers against each other and engages in dirty sex games while the price of the picture increases steadily. A vital comedy of moral depravity,…

An artdealer decides to make a fortune when one of Jackson Pollack’s pictures are secretly put on sale. During a private auction she plays the wealthy buyers against each other and engages in dirty sex games while the price of the picture increases steadily. A vital comedy of moral depravity,…

Dystopian play about abuse of power, bureaucracy, and gender inequality. Based on real events where “morally defective” women between 1923 and 1961 were interned on the Danish island of Sprogø.

D.H. Lawrence in Australia. The famous writer and his German wife spend six months on the New South Wales coast, brawling, squabbling and remembering England – much to the amazement of their conservative neighbours. Winner 1980 Australian Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play

Jealousy and competition is the theme of this children’s play. From her parents, Ursel constantly hears that her brother, who died before she was born, did everything better than she does. No wonder that everything in her head concerns him.

“Ursula” is a study of sexual love and the mysterious power of virginity based on the tenth century legend of Saint Ursula who undertook a journey down the Rhine in the company of 10,000 virgins to break off a betrothal after a vision of Christ. In Barker’s retelling of the…

A meaningful play that begins with two groups of wanderers looking for a place to settle. They agree to share and mark the line between their territories, then build a small wall. The wall is built higher and then still higher. Suspicion and mistrust grow to the point where the…

Utiseta is an Old Norse ritual that was used to communicate with the spirits via a connection with the nature. In Lisa Lie’s performative work, Norse mythology is connected with modern culture in a wild feast where Norns, goblins, Persian cats and other creatures take us on an utiseta in…

A dense and successful dramatisation of Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s first novel in the Elling-trilogy. His entire life, Elling has lived alone with his mother in a concrete flat somewhere in Oslo. The mother dies and he has the flat all to himself. In an attempt to control the chaotic life after…

The three tough girls and friends, Maiken, Ditte and Kat, constitute the band VIP. They arrive at the club, where they are to perform, with great confidence and high expectations. Suddenly Ditte gets a black out on stage and their dreams are crushed. “Everything is stupid Pernille’s fault. They will…

A man has fallen in love with a woman and swims behind her across the Atlantic. Although it is not yet spring they decide to make an egg together. After the egg is laid, they go fishing. Nothing comes out of it, but next year they’ll try again.

Many Danes warmly remember Poul Reichhardt singing ‘Are you in contact with the birds in the sky’. When mentioning the name Morten Korch, the talk is about true Danish popular comedy. Furthermore, in this stage adaptation, several wonderful songs from the Danish film treasure that are known by all Danes…

The Vagrant Trilogy consists of three plays: The Hour of Feeling, The Vagrant, and Urge for Going. In part one, The Hour of Feeling, (1967) we meet Adham, a hot young scholar back from university in Cairo, readying himself to go to London to give a talk. He marries a…

Mørkeby’s remake of Wagner’s Valkyrie; The play is about Brunholde and Siegmund, who are expecting a child and have recently moved into their new house. “We’re building a home” Siegmund says – “We’re building a war”, Brunhilde says. Valkyrien is a story about love as a life-giving and destructive power!…

Against the backdrop of post-Apartheid South Africa, Athol Fugard conjures up the plight of ordinary people. A timeless story of the old, fearful of change, and the young, yearning to run into the future. This is the moving story of a grandfather’s love for his dutiful grandchild. He wants her…

This is a beautiful and most gripping fantasy, spun around the Norwegian pianist and authoress, Dagny Juell and her husband, the Satanist Stanislaw Przybyszewski. Also present is the naïve son of a millionaire, Wladislaw Emeryk, who blindly worship the couple, with fatal consequences and all because of his strong passion…

Three actors play variations on the Oedipus story to find out how it could have been in reality.

Julia is a woman who spends her days telling lies, which she claims to be the result of her monotony and boredom. She continuously creates wrong situations, that have made life a nightmare for her husband and all the people who gets involved. One Christmas Eve, a thief breaks in…

One day, three old men, Dietrich, Lothar and Oliver, receives a letter saying that they will soon die. They are upset because they are not yet finished with life. They still have to ride on camels through the desert, climb the highest mountains, eat more breakfast, quarrel, experience love, clean…

Riffing on some of Anton Chekov’s most time-tested themes, Christopher Durang proves in his hysterically funny and surprisingly affecting new romp, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, that whether you’re in 19th Century Russia or 21st Century Pennsylvania, the human condition never changes. Step-siblings Vanya and Sonia have never…

The soldier, Leo, is an expert in carrying out torture. He is currently admitting new recruits, including Albin, who is keen on pursuing his education, assisted by the helper Stephan. In the center we find the tortured, the woman Noah, who’s being tortured by her own free will. But it…

Rousku and Raninen drag paint cans and wallpaper around the stockroom of a paint store. Rousku supplements his income by stealing and selling goods, but management is beginning to notice odd disappearances. On top of this, the salesclerk Karita is pregnant and blackmailing Rousku: take responsibility for the child or…

Chamber music for 9 players and 6 instruments The search for love and fulfilment. Sydney, 1982. Three generations of Australian women: the oldest, a cellist, finds a violinist to accompany her in duets; the middle one, Meg, is a successful shopfront lawyer and single parent of a 17-year-old girl; each…

The author and Nobel Prize winner, Abel Zorko, leads a secluded life on an island in the Norwegian circumpolar ocean. He is visited by the young journalist Erik Laursen, who has been granted permission to interview the shy author, for the first time in ages. At first, Zorko wipes the…

VATER UNSER is the first play of the Austrian award winning film director, Ulrich Seidl. It premiered at the Volksbühne in Berlin and deals with questions of faith and how a bunch of souls attempt to build a personal relationship with God. The story takes place in the prayer room…

Felix is young and on the run. He rebels against his surroundings and believe that he is son of the sun god. Felix goes in search of his father, but finds only remnants of a patriarchal society. Cruel and absurd father figures stand in the way and must pay with…

A family piece that shows how the domestic rows affects children.

Stage adaptation rights available In 1983, Gudmundsson published a second novel, Vængjasláttur í þakrennunum (Wingbeat on the Rooftops), a portrait of a world of creativity and freedom which is gradually forced into submission. Boys in a suburb of Reykjavík “give their thoughts wing” to create a private world where life…

Three stories unfold in the same room of the same house during the span of one hundred years: past, present and future. In part one a man gives the house to his daughter-in-law on condition that she goes to bed with him. Her revenge is his doom. In part two…

A sophisticated musical that, with the silver wedding in an ordinary Danish family as a frame, is made to take place in both the present as the past, during the party and several other places. Through this, some of the most important events – both in society and within the…

Musical in one act who in form of satire tells the story of three young peoples search for a job in spotlight. Along the way they have it out with their parents, their heros, love, betrayal and in the end they make it.

This musical romp is based on Carlo Goldoni’s celebrated comedy of mistaken identity: twin brothers let loose on one mad day in Eighteenth Century Verona. The double central role is a gift to a bright young comedian. One of the female roles requires a good coloratura soprano. Published by Currency…

The story takes place in an old people’s home, in which three soldier veterans, Gustave, Philippe and Henri spend their time, discussing on the terrace. According to themselves they have been quite important in their active lives, but now, life seems to bore them. Something has to happen and instead…

The action takes place at the doctor’s where 4 different women are waiting to speak to the doctor (who herself is ill): Margrethe (89), who struggles with a failing memory; Heidi (42), who has filled herself with botox; Ingeborg (39) who wants a child; and Randi Beate (50), who needs…

A dazzling play based on one of literature’s most infamous erotic novels. ”Venus in Furs” takes you behind the scenes to an audition for a play in which the lines between fantasy and reality, seduction and power, and love and hate blur.

The action in this historical drama takes place between 1939 and the end of World War II. It focuses on Anna Sperber, who is earning her living as a toilet lady on the main train station. Around her is her leftist brother, a frivolous cousin, a Jewish doctor and an…

The play takes place in a casino the night before Raskolnikov confesses the double murder. In his adaptation for the Theater Neumarkt in Zurich, Tim Krohn has concentrated the action in Dostoevsky’s great novel to the spatial and temporal. In a clear, hard language, the Swiss writer connects the problem…

Nine-year-old Maria is an adopted child and she lives with her parents Morten and Birgitte in a flat where everything has been arranged in an orderly manner. Maria’s peculiar friend Thomas lives upstairs in a messy flat. He plays the guitar and sings songs. Maria wishes to be a princess…

A radio play written in 1939 before the outbreak of the Second World War and while Brecht exiled in Sweden. General Lukullus is given a pompous funeral in Rome amid the comments of the soldiers, slaves, and women who have suffered through his wars, and of the businessmen who have…

Antonia is still in school. She wants to be a singer. She is pregnant. Thousands of thoughts and feelings go through her. Nothing is as it was before. Also the friendship with Caro and Lynn falters. Antonia plays through all play opportunities in the new situation and comes to surprising…

In “Verletzte Jugend” Richter uses “Unter Eis” for making a contrast study of three hard-working and efficient men. The story is played out as a long nightly gathering between three friends, who meet in their old apartment, where they once to lived together. What has happened to all their dreams,…

Veronika is young, beautiful and much admired. She goes out with her friends and admirers, has a steady job and a family that loves her. However, something is still missing in her life. November 1997 an early morning, she decides that she wants to die. Shortly after an overdose of…

The nationalist revolution is on the march. The old patriarchal family is experiencing a renaissance as the nucleus of a backward-looking ideal of order and security, of culture and civilization. The class struggle that was repressed in the social unconscious seems to be returning as a cultural struggle from the…

“One of the most profoundly moving new plays I have seen in a long time” (New York Times). The story of the orphaned siblings Charlotte and Felix from the first to the last kiss: From a play as mother and father on the beach to the last act in a…

The most freezing Christmas night ever. A little boy awaits his parents in the airport where an older woman is looking for her son. A psychiatrist tries to assist his patient in regaining control over his life whilst his own life is a complete mess. Three actors attempt to grasp…

A young couple have barely returned from honeymoon before a verbal conflict ends in a disaster that freezes them into ice. From this basic situation, Jonke leads his audience into the distorted world at a sanatorium where the elderly says goodbye to their paralyzed youth. One day, the sea of…

An adaptation of an antique material. Pauline Mol portrays adult behavior from the child’s perspective as they ask their mother, Medea, to explain how tragedy became her.

“In combat medicine, there’s this moment … after a disaster, after a shooting-there’s this moment, the vertical hour, when you can actually be of some use.” Hare’s play premiered on Broadway in 2006 starring Julianne Moore as the American Nadia Blye, a former war correspondent who now teaches political science…