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VAMOS A CONTAR MENTIRAS
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…
Read moreVAN DRIE OUDE MANNETJES DIE NIET DOOD WILDEN
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…
Read moreVANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
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…
Read moreVAPENVILAN
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…
Read moreVARASTO
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…
Read moreVARIATIONS
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…
Read moreVARIATIONS ÉNIGMATIQUES
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…
Read moreVATER UNSER
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…
Read moreVATERLOS
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…
Read moreVÆNGJASLÁTTUR Í ÞAKRENNUNUM (WINGBEAT ON THE ROOFTOPS)
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…
Read moreVÆRELSE MED SOL
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…
Read moreVED BENT OG KIRSTENS SØLVBRYLLUP
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…
Read moreVEM HAR INTE DRÖMMAR
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.
Read moreVENETIAN TWINS
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…
Read moreVENT DES PEUPLIERS, LE
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…
Read moreVENTEROMMET (THE WAITING ROOM)
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…
Read moreVENUS IN FUR
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.
Read moreVERBINDLICHEN DANK
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…
Read moreVERBRECHEN UND STRAFE
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…
Read moreVERDEN BAG VÆGGEN
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…
Read moreVERHÖR DES LUKULLUS, DAS
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…
Read moreVERHÜTEN & VERFÄRBEN
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…
Read moreVERLETZTE JUGEND – DREI DURCHWACHTE NÄCHTE
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,…
Read moreVERONIKA DECIDE MORIR
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…
Read moreVERRÄTER
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…
Read moreVERRÜCKT NACH TROST
“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…
Read moreVERSTÖRUNG, DIE
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…
Read moreVERSUNKENE KATHEDRALE, DIE
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…
Read moreVERTEL MEDEA VERTEL (ERZÄHL MEDEA ERZÄHL)
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.
Read moreVERTICAL HOUR, THE
“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…
Read moreVERWANDTEN, DIE
A wicked farce about a family reunion that develops into a grotesque nightmare.
Read moreVEST FOR EDEN
A group of old friends, who graduated in 1975, are gathered with their respective partners at the yearly garden party. Everything is blissful. Or is it…? Before sunrise, several occurrences have taken place underneath the apple trees. Somehow nothing has changed and yet nothing is quite as it used to…
Read moreVETERANS, OR, HAIRS IN THE GATES OF THE HELLESPONT
“Veterans”, based on his experience of co-writing the film ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, about the poor state of the British Army’s leadership during the Crimean War, as witnessed by a relatively competent officer, Captain Louis Nolan, is one of Charles Wood’s major contributions to British drama. Sir John…
Read moreVETSERA BLOMSTRER IKKE FOR ENHVER
A paraphrase of Mayerling Incident, the double suicide that took place in 1889 at the Imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods , where the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf shot himself and his nubile mistress, Mary Vetsera. The story is dramatized and filmed several times and has the…
Read moreVHS VS. BETAMAX
The year is 1979. Axel and Tommy have decided to start a home video rental store. Axel is the quality-conscious schoolteacher with a great love for French movie-classics and the Betamax format, while Tommy is convinced that VHS and more plain movies are the future. As Tommy manages to create…
Read moreVI FALLER INTE!
What happens when we manipulate our bodies and physical existence? What if we lose our soul in the process, without even knowing what we’ve lost? How does a modern woman become a mother without sacrificing any of her precious time and without her body becomes deformed? In her desperation, she…
Read moreVI PÅ SALTKRÅKAN
Astrid Lindgren’s well-known children’s book in an adaptation for open-air theatre. The story is set during a few summer months in 1964. It deals with the Stockholm family Melkerson as they are on a holiday on the little island of Saltkråkan (The Seacrow Island): Mr. Melkerson and his four children.…
Read moreVIA DOLORES
Dolores is a clear-sighted scientist specializing in pain. She has her own theory about pain and about the human ability to control pain with willpower. She enters the cellar to get her mourning. Her sister Felicia has passed away, but Dolores desires to keep away the memory about the dead…
Read moreVIA DOLOROSA
This is a deeply fascinating monologue which David Hare wrote to himself after a journey to Israel and Palestine. Without taking party, he narrates his meetings with several different people from the two camps. Hare acclaimed great success for his performance of ‘himself’. However, this outstanding text is also accessible…
Read moreVICTIMES DU DEVOIR
A couple enjoys a quiet evening at home in their Parisian apartment where “nothing ever happens,” when a detective enters, claiming that he is trying to track down the previous tenant. What starts as a simple interrogation quickly becomes a mind-bending journey.
Read moreVICTOR OU LES ENFANTS AU POUVOIR
If placed next to UBU ROI this play is a classic in the genre of surrealistic theatre. The main character is Victor, who is nine years old and 181cm tall. It is his birthday, at which he takes the opportunity to de-mask his parents and other grown-ups from the face…
Read moreVICTOR/VICTORIA
The film director Blake Edwards who is behind this stage adaptation has based the musical on one of his own films, Victor Victoria. It is the story about a female singer who becomes a man in order to perform as a drag queen in nightclubs around Paris. Then one day,…
Read moreVICTORIA
A trilogy in one play, Victoria is set in 1936, 1976 and 1996, and tells the story of three generations of rich and poor in the Scottish Highlands. Grasping the huge theme of the spilt in the country’s culture between puritan repression and libertarian openness, it revolves around three different…
Read moreVICTORÍA OG GEORG
This play covers the fatal love story between two Nordic geniuses: the Swedish author Victoria Benedictsson and the Danish critic, Georg Brandes. Based on Victoria’s diaries, Símonarson opens the doors to an ardent love affair build on spiritual and bodily dominion – as well as passionate ideas about liberty, art…
Read moreVICTORIA STATION
A radio dialogue between a taxicab driver and his dispatcher. The two characters speak the same language, but make so little sense of each other’s meaning that a simple transaction becomes a painful, existential struggle.
Read moreVICTORY
‘Victory’ is a comic, bawdy and passionate play set in the chaos of the Restoration in 1660. Bradshaw, the widow of a Republican intellectual, discovering the fate of her husband’s body, sets out on a journey of personal exploration which brings her into a number of different worlds, including the…
Read moreVIEL GUT ESSEN
Migration, gay marriage, organic vegetables, gentrification, feminism, Euro crisis, social media … In the midst of all this stands an ordinary desperate heterosexual middleclass father in his mid-40s. He has realized that he is not on the winning team in the present reality, and Sibylle Berg leaves him bitter to…
Read moreVIEUX CARRE
The highly autobiographical work is set in a dilapidated boarding house at 722 Toulouse Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the late 1930s. It focuses on a nameless, newly-transplanted, innocent, aspiring St. Louis writer who is struggling with his literary career, poverty, loneliness, homosexuality, and a cataract.…
Read moreVIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, A
This is a compelling and exciting drama that delves into such issues as love, obsession, manliness and justice. It’s the story of Eddie, an illiterate longshoreman, and his anger towards his niece’s affection for an illegal immigrant staying in his house. The complicated relationships between them and many other characters…
Read moreVIGILS
Is grief really necessary, when you lose someone you love? The Widow has coped with the loss of her husband by capturing his Soul and keeping it prisoner in a box in her bedroom. Sometimes, she lets it out for a talk and a hug. After two years of widowship,…
Read moreVIKAREN
Carl leads his own life, isolated from the world. This, however, changes when a new substitute teacher arrives in Carl’s class. The exceedingly cynical and unmerciful Ulla Harms drops like a careless bomb on the otherwise well-mannered children. The sub is not just a sub – it seems that she…
Read moreVILLE DONT LE PRINCE EST UN ENFANT, LA
The play takes place at a Catholic boarding school and follows the friendship between a 14 year old and a 16 year old pupil and the tragic consequences that follow.
Read moreVILLENDER
Starting from the saga about the princes who were turned into wild ducks and their sister, the princess who in attempt to keep her life, is forced to weave clothes to them. Jesper Halle has written a riveting and poetic drama which takes place in a remote madhouse in the…
Read moreVINCENT
This monodrama is based on Philip Stephen’s play; VAN GOGH which premiered at The Guthrie Theatre. The story is about two brothers and about Theo van Gogh’s love for his brother – a brother who could be very hard to love. The story is supported by pictures with slides which…
Read moreVINCENT IN BRIXTON
1873 – Brixton. A breezy young Dutchman has taken a room with a British widow. Three years later he returns to the European continent and takes the first step towards a breakdown, death and immortality. The play has been based on actual events and was proclaimed “one of the best…
Read moreVINCENT RIVER
Philip Ridley’s Vincent River is a stark reminder of the continued occurrences of hate crime and homophobic attacks in society. Drawing upon events of his youth and the murder of a friend in the 1980s, Ridley creates two characters trying to come to terms with a death which has resulted…
Read moreVINEGAR TOM
This epic play was written in cooperation with the feministic group Monstrous Regiment in 1976 and depicts the destinies of a group of women during the 1600’s witch hunt. Betty from a landowner family is considered to be mad when she refuses to marry. Brawls and envy between neighbors are…
Read moreVINTER I LÖNNEBERGA
It is Christmas time in Lönneberga, where Emil and his family are busy with preparations. The Old Cowberry-Maja tells tales of ghosts and werewolves. Inspired by these stories, Emil and his friend Alfred dig a wolf trap. It ends up serving a useful purpose when an old lady who has…
Read moreVIRGIN MIM, THE
When Ed and Steve meet old friends for dinner, they’re hot. They’re cooking. They’re on the threshold of a million dollar deal. But tonight they’re not talking money. Tonight they’re here because Mim is coming home. Mim McDermott, ruthless lawyer extraordinaire, is back from a Catholic community in Ireland. She’s…
Read moreVIRGINIA
An evocative play about Virginia Woolf’s life and relationships with her husband, Leonard, and her lover, Vita Sackville-West.
Read moreVIRTUE
A university lecturer fights for his reputation against prejudice and intrigue in a narrow-minded community. Based on the 1950s “Orr” case in Tasmania.
Read moreVISEN OM SIDSEL
A comedy about survival and identity in Copenhagen in the 1720’s. 1724: Copenhagen stinks. The contents from the chamber pots flows in the gutters. The atmosphere is characterized by returned war disturbed soldiers, unrestrained cheerfulness and a growing religiousness. Sidsel leaves her illegitimate child in the northern rural part of…
Read moreVISIONS
This play is set in Paraguay of the 1860s during the War of the Triple Alliance, the bloodiest conflict in Latin American history. The megalomaniac President Lopez has married Madame Lynch, a Partisan courtesan. His ignorance and her egotism together bring ruin on the country themselves. Against this violent background…
Read moreVISIT TO A SMALL PLANET, A
In 1956, Gore Vidal wrote this comedic play about humanity’s seeming preoccupation with war and world domination. “Visit to a Small Planet” addresses our fears concerning global and nuclear warfare in a hilarious spoof on alien invasion. When the “alien” Kreton lands his space ship in the middle of an…
Read moreVISITEUR, LE
Vienna, 1938: The Nazis have occupied the city. The Jewish psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, is considering whether he should flee to England or not, strongly urged by his daughter Anna. That evening Anna is collected by the Gestapo and Freud’s world is about to fall apart. Suddenly, a stranger enters his…
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In a farmhouse at the edge of Salisbury Plain, a family is falling apart. Stephen can’t afford to put his mother into care; Arthur can’t afford to stop working and look after his wife. When a young stranger moves in to care for Edie as her mind unravels, the family…
Read moreVITA AND VIRGINIA
This wonderful play is based on the correspondence between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Not only does it illuminate the friendship and love affair between the two women but concurrently, it offers a fascinating insight in the British elite of the 30’ies. Certainly a play that holds two fantastic female…
Read moreVÖGEL, DIE
Based on Aristophanes’ The Birds about the women’s attempt, with the help of the birds, to prevent the men’s armament and devastating wars.
Read moreVOICE OF THE TURTLE, THE
John van Druten’s 3-character play ran for years on Broadway during WW2. It centers on the unexpected weekend of a soldier on leave in NYC and the romantic young actress who shows him the town.
Read moreVOICES IN THE DARK
Dr. Lil is a successful psychiatrist with her own radio show in which she assists listeners with difficult personal problems. A caller with a husky voice identifies himself as Deamon and informs her that he intends to murder a woman. Deeply affected by the call, she decides to go on…
Read moreVOIX SOURDES, DES
An early radio play, which describes the amorous intrigues that takes place between four characters: Hélène, Stevan, Nicolas and Anna. The quartet is caught in a multitude of voices and sounds: projections of obsessions, people passing by and sounds of the wide open.
Read moreVOLD
This is a drama about the longing for intimacy, but also a black portrait of the family as an institution and love as a romanticized lie. The play is set in a cold cellar and sets out as a love triangle – a play within the play – in which…
Read moreVOLKSGARTEN
Hanna is a fashion photographer and Jiri teaches at the university. Their marriage is in crisis and they are bored of each other. In a park, Jiri meets a young man, Simon, who he falls in love with. Simon also has a secret relationship with Hanna. A love triangle begins…
Read moreVOLKSVERNICHTUNG ODER MEINE LEBER IST SINNLOS
The residents of an apartment building fight a deadly battle for status in this blistering satire of class distinction and upward mobility. Will Mrs. Wurm thwart her son’s dreams of becoming an artist…before he bores a hole in her head with a corkscrew? Will Mr. Kovacic finally attain the coveted…
Read moreVOLL HAPPY – FAST EINE TRAGÖDIE
A turbulent comedy with witty dialogue and quirky characters about three generations of a family.
Read moreVOLTAIRES NEFFE
Enzensberger’s version of Diderot’s “Rameau’s Nephew” where two persons, an anonymous philosopher and a bizarre, nihilistic bohemian, discusses morality, genius role, eroticism and religion.
Read moreVON DEM MACHANDELBAUM
En version of a lesser known Grimm fairytale about a boy, who’s killed and boiled by his stepmother and served for his father. The boy resurrects as bird and finds the magical powder that will liberate his father and sister from the evil stepmother.
Read moreVORE EGNE MANDARINER
This is a good-humoured caricature of the enterprise in the poultry ministry. What is done there seems completely foolish and useless, yet it is not mad enough for us to not sense a connection to some kind of reality. The characters use all their energy pursuing personal goals and achieving…
Read moreVOYAGE DE MOLIÈRE, LE
Chartes, August 1944, recently liberated from German occupation.The Giraud family have been hairdressers from father to son and so it naturally came to Pierre to take over from his father, killed in a prison camp a year earlier. Marie, his mother, a heroïne of the French Résistance, is in charge…
Read moreVOYAGE OF MARY BRYANT, THE
The Mary Bryant story begins in the late 1800s, when she is sentenced to seven years deportation to the Botany Bay penal colony. After the eight month journey on board the First Fleet, Mary and her fellow convicts are given the task of building a new world at the polar…
Read moreVOYAGES CHEZ LES MORTS
Ionesco’s final play combines autobiographical material with the hallucinatory quality of his early works. The play is an anxiety driven, autobiographical fantasy revolving around a middle-aged writer who visits a realm where the dead and the living exist plainly with one another. Answers are not forthcoming, and the audience is…
Read moreWAGER, THE
Leeds who is a selfish, bright student of philosophy enters a bet with his roommate Ward, who constantly brags about his sexual escapades. And so he is to seduce, not entirely without dangerous consequences, the young beautiful wife of one of their professors living in the flat next door. Leeds…
Read moreWAIT UNTIL DARK
A sinister con-man, Roar, and two exconvicts, Mike and Carlino, are about to meet their match. They have traced the location of a mysterious doll, which they are much interested in, to the Greenwich Village apartment of Sam Hendrix and his blind wife, Susy. Sam had apparently been persuaded by…
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