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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…

A wicked farce about a family reunion that develops into a grotesque nightmare.

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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.

‘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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It’s Halloween night, but everyone is dropping their masks. When two couples drink a strange blue Peruvian wine together, the evening turns eventful as their traditions and their relationships to one another begin to unravel. Will the truth set them free or is it another trap to escape? A dark…

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…

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…

An evocative play about Virginia Woolf’s life and relationships with her husband, Leonard, and her lover, Vita Sackville-West.

A university lecturer fights for his reputation against prejudice and intrigue in a narrow-minded community. Based on the 1950s “Orr” case in Tasmania.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Lotta is a little girl who is determined to learn how to ride a bike, even though her parents think she’s too young to have one of her own. She feels disappointed and upset when she doesn’t get a bike like her siblings, but Lotta is not one to give…

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…

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

A turbulent comedy with witty dialogue and quirky characters about three generations of a family.

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.

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.

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…

A surreal tale about two sisters and their search for their parents.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This is the first play in eight years from the Irish playwright Tom Murphy. The main themes are the same as in his previous works and those of other Irish authors: the homecoming after a life in exile. It also deals with the clashes between the free spirited and the…

“Is it now? (Brief pause.) I thought I had more time.” A dying man and his humorous, almost improvisational, reflection on life: What are we doing here? Where are we going, how and why? Take a step back, look around and enjoy the simple pleasures of life and each other…

Kitti Zitti, a young homeless woman, is getting ready for the night in a backyard. From the property she hears beautiful music that puts her in such a high mood, that when she shakes the pillow she makes a kind of doll out of it: a child who wants to…

A personal and historical tale about life on both sides of the Israeli West Bank barrier, which is four times the length of the Berlin Wall. Published with the monologue BERLIN about the berlin wall.

This play is an adaptation of John Hersey’s novel about life in Warsaw’s ghetto in the years between 1940 – 43.

Wallflowering traces the uncertain steps of Cliff and Peg Small, an ordinary couple, as they attempt to save their marriage. One time prize-winning ballroom dancers, they now find themselves out of step with each other, and with the changing values of the world around them. Through the metaphor of dance,…

A small group of men are sitting around a table: The handsome Albert, who has a tendency to reject women, Olaf, who is addicted to being high, Rainer, who is a foot fetishist and finally George, who makes bets about his wife’s fidelity. On the other side of the street…

With an exquisite British feel for what functions and what is effective, Helen Edmundson has dramatized Lev Tolstoj’s mighty epic from the Napoleon wars. Rather than dealing with one general story the plot consists of several parallel stories. We follow the doings, the complexity and development of five Russian families.…

Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny De Vito starred in the movie based on Warren Adler’s tragicomic novel. Oliver and Barbara Rose have been married for 18 years. Now, Barbara wants a divorce, but when it comes to the house none of them want to give it up. Their lawyers…

From five perspectives, this radio piece demonstrates the impact of structural violence on the individual. The material is impressions from a trip to Kosovo.

A sort of Hell or Paradise depending on how you see it, where Ulrich Hub has gathered a number of characters inspired by Brothers Grimm.

Mr. R. has no reason to complain. He has a meaningful job at an architectural studio, a wonderful wife and a son. He lives in a nice apartment with his family. In the evening the couple watches television and in the weekend the family in laws comes to visit. Everything…

Ibsen’s “Nora or a Doll’s House and Pillar of Society” form the basis for this very free continuation and modernization of his characters and themes. This “didactic play in the tradition of Brecht” picks up where the original Nora ends: She leaves her husband and her children to set off…

A critical allegory on Sweden’s position in the build-up to World War Two. It was written in 1939 while Brecht was in exile in Sweden. The play is set in the shop of a male character named Svenson, who is repeatedly visited by a gangster-like figure wanting to purchase iron.…