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This play was originally a TV drama, then it became a most successful film and here it is in a scenic version. It takes place in a jurors’ room in America where the verdict is a matter of life or death for a 19 year old boy who is convicted…

In the year 2050, Latinx people have been assimilated into the (white) majority of the United States, but race issues are far from resolved. In this tricky political environment, Andres Salazar is running for office and must decide whether losing some of his own identity is worth the potential social…

This is two hysterically funny one-act comedies. ‘A Need for Brussels Sprouts’ finds a middle-aged actor hoping to land a TV commercial for pizza by playing opera full blast in his apartment while pretending to be the tenor. Enter the irate lady cop who lives upstairs and intends to give…

This is a family comedy about three sisters and their mother (all the female characters are to be performed by the same actress). The three middle aged sisters are of very different characters, living in very different environments, though with one thing in common; they all wish to emphasize how…

This farce is written by the author behind the libretto KISS ME KATE and UNDER THE SYCAMORE TREE. The play is a joke taken on the over-organised American public administration and revolves around two elderly ladies, who have got the somewhat special task of marketing natural remedies.

“The problem with my brother is that he won’t give up his principles to get results.” Former Liberal Front bencher. This is the story of two brothers who fierce ideological fight rips their family apart, decimates their personal and political reputations and challenges the moral integrity of the nation. Eggs…

Two brothers, Mark and Andrew, meet again, after many years, at the home of their dying father, nay: the man is still alive, but in a condition that resembles death, immobilized in his bed unable to recognize even his own children, virtually little more than an object, day and night…

Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power in one of Tennessee Williams’ most personal, mystifying, haunting, provocative, and oftern funny works. Finding themselves deserted by their troupe and faced with an audience expecting a performance, actor/siblings Clare and Felice enact The Two-Character Play. As they dip in and out of…

Emma Phelps is a paleoclimatologist, focusing on ice in Greenland. In drilling and studying ice core samples, she sees first hand the symptoms of our changing planet, which makes the need to act all the more crucial and urgent. In addition, Emma, as a recent widow, experiences grief that compounds…

This is a simple yet refined play about a man and a woman, who in their escape from loneliness find compassion and understanding in each other. In other words it is a romantic comedy holding a quick-witted dialog as well as two dream parts for really talented actors.

3 F / 9 M / Ballet A full-length musical in 2 acts 1 Set This is yet a modern adaptation of a Shakespeare play, and in this version it comes with an added rock music score. TWO MEN OF VERONA is the story of two friends; the noble Valentine…

In this forerunner to OUT OF ORDER, Richard Willey M. P. is trying to seduce one of the Prime Minister’s secretaries. George Pigden, his aide, manages to bungle the whole plan leaving staff and guests reeling in confusion.

Diana and Max meet at 9 years old, the day their parents start having an affair. In the ensuing decades, they see each other through highs and lows, trying not to make the same mistakes their parents did. A play about trying not to fall in love with your best…

Four one act plays to be played by the same two actors. BLACK AND SILVER, THE NEW QUIXOTE, THE FOOT and CHINAMEN; the common theme for all is marital eroticism, with a comic touch.

An empty, indefinable space. Two young women, two sisters, waiting for a coach that will probably never come, meditate on their future; they are two actresses who have just seen their own small theater company go bankrupt. But this is not ‘Theatre in the Theatre “, nor a reflection on…

Adapted from the best-selling novel by Morris Gleitzman. Colin has a mission. He wants to speak to the Queen about his brother Luke who has cancer. Cousin Alistair would like to help but stress brings on his dandruff. Colin takes the lock off the back door and goes out alone.

ELEGY FOR A LADY and SOME KIND OF LOVE STORY can be played together under the title TWO-WAY MIRROR.

In this short monologue, first performed as part of a production of twelve one-person plays, a bigamist closes in on the moment when he realizes wife number two must know what’s going on but chooses not to say anything.

The story takes place in an office, where Sylvia and Paul work. Sylvia is manager, single and living with her mother. Paul is a law student, married, father of two and has just started work. The play examines two very different stories about expectations, dreams and affiliation. Furthermore it focuses…

The two sisters, Alize and Gwenny are going to have a younger brother. They wonder how it will be and to solve the riddle they set out on a magical journey.

In her very own manner, Jelinek deals with subjects such as sexuality, dependency and power. ÜBER TIERE consists of two parts: First part is the masochistic and unmerciful love monologue of a woman; the second part focuses on the sex industry, and is based on the Austrian Police’s interrogation protocols…

The action takes place in a tavern where the same mentally and socially deformed characters meet night after night.

The play takes place in an office of a Catholic church. Father Filip has just returned from Rome when a young woman, Lisa, crashes in. She is a drug addict, a prostitute, and on the run from a recent robbery. The play explores the confrontations between the career-minded, arrogant, young…

The story takes place in Copenhagen in a not too distant future. Europe is dominated by the party, The Hermeneutical Light Corps, which is having a summit meeting in the capital city with great coverage by the media. Rufus is an acknowledged poet. Slowly he senses how his poetic freedom…

Jelinek interweaves Schiller’s heroines, Maria Stuart and Queen Elisabeth, with the modern German history: The actresses playing Maria Stuart and Queen Elisabeth fight a verbal duel in which ideologies rage against each other. Jelinek creates a linguistic network of erotica and politics based on Schiller’s stanza, references from contemporary history…

An intense monodrama about Ulrike Meinhof and the Baader-Meinhof group which in the 70’ies caused death and disaster in its fight for a better world. Barnett has written an intelligent text about Meinhof in the Stammheim prison just before she committed suicide and so the result is an account of…

Two monologues about two radical women’s lives: Ulrike von Kleist and Ulrike Meinhof. The interpretation of the relationship between the two siblings, Heinrich and Ulrike von Kleist, is based on extensive studies – however, the author uses her poetic freedom. The second part is dedicated to Ulrike Meinhof, who plays…

Two men, who are fans of different football teams, automatically become each others’ rivals and enemies. One is a government officer in the ministry of foreign affairs; the other is a proletarian baker. In their nightly meetings, a love-hate relationship develops between the two men, involving both physical and psychic…

The daughter of a rich Dutch merchant looks longingly past her scheming father to her French lieutenant suitor. As the lovers hatch a plan to trap the merchant with his own words, their servants – a pair of quick-witted schemers themselves – realize they have fallen madly in love with…

In the best sense, but with the worst intention, three elderly men size up each other. A quirky and funny play with grotesque impacts to the poetic … It will be a long, but not boring winter.

Actor adored by the public, Alex, the pleasant and tolerant man, gets ready to come on stage for the “première” of Misanthrope when Alceste, the truth, the man in the green ribbons of Molière, appears to him in the mirror of his dressing room. Once his amazement went by, the…

An investigation of the nature of solitude and individual responsibility.

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…