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VIEW 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…
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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 moreVINO VERITAS
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…
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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
Read moreWAKE, THE
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…
Read moreWAKEY, WAKEY
“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…
Read moreWALDKINDER
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…
Read moreWALL
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.
Read moreWALL, THE
This play is an adaptation of John Hersey’s novel about life in Warsaw’s ghetto in the years between 1940 – 43.
Read moreWALLFLOWERING
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,…
Read moreWANDA’S WORLD
Wanda Butternut is the popular host of the hit TV talk show “Wanda’s World,” where kids call in to get advice from Wanda to solve their problems. Wanda is beautiful, confident and always knows what to say…in her fantasy. In real life, Wanda is a middle school girl with a…
Read moreWANDERNUTTEN
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…
Read moreWAR AND PEACE
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.…
Read moreWAR OF THE ROSES, THE
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…
Read moreWAR ZONE I-V
From five perspectives, this radio piece demonstrates the impact of structural violence on the individual. The material is impressions from a trip to Kosovo.
Read moreWARTEINWEIL
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.
Read moreWARUM LÄUFT HERR R. AMOK
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…
Read moreWAS GESCHAH, NACHDEM NORA IHREN MANN VERLASSEN HATTE ODER STÜTZEN DER GESELLSCHAFT
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…
Read moreWAS KOSTET DAS EISEN?
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.…
Read moreWASSER IM EIMER
A children’s play about pollution. On their holiday in the country side two big city children experience that they get red cheeks of bathing and it’s not a healthy complexion.
Read moreWASTE. A DOCUMENTARY FAIRY-TALE
Entertaining and dramaturgically experimental comedy about the environment and how hazardous waste is recycled or not at all, and where waste is the new valuable asset in a criminal like business world.
Read moreWAT IS ER AN DE HAND MET DANIELA DUÑOZ (WAS IST LOS MIT DANIELA DUÑOZ?)
Early in the morning Daniela Duñoz is arrested by the police. She is suspected of having kidnapped and illegally adopted the three children who lives with her. Before they lived a carefree life in a suburb of Buenos Aires. Now they’re taken in the custody of the authorities and placed…
Read moreWATCH ON THE RHINE
The work plays out in 1940 and portrays an idealistic German, Kurt, who flees Hitler’s Germany with his American wife and children and finds sanctuary with his wife’s family in the United States. He hopes for a respite from the dangerous work in which he has been involved, but his…
Read moreWATCHING AND WEIGHTING
A fine monologue for an actress, who skillfully reveals, changing between graveness and humour, how body fixated most women are and also how their self-esteem often dives after an ended love affair.
Read moreWATCHTOWER, THE
Set in a Blue Mountains TB sanitorium from 1939 to 1945. The story of what happens to a group of TB patients who must wait to be cured as the world is engulfed in the second world war. The disease has determined everyone’s lives. Some patients die, others live, and…
Read moreWATER ENGINE, THE
The Water Engine is set in 1934. Its central character, Charles Lang, is a young amateur inventor, who designs an engine that runs on water. He plans to patent it, make a fortune, and live happily ever after with his sister Rita Lang, but his dream begins to unravel when…
Read moreWAY UPSTREAM
What could be more pleasant than cruising through the picturesque English countryside? This voyage combines the comedy touches that make Ayckbourn one of the world’s best-loved playwrights with a darker thread of menace.
Read moreWE ARE SORRY
Hirdwalls artistic comment on the News of the World scandal. The late British writer Dennis Potter pops up in media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s sleep for a critical dialogue about the case and Murdoch’s dominance in the media world. The title refers to the heading of the letter, where Murdoch apologizes…
Read moreWE HEAR YOU – GRETA THUNBERGS TAL
A montage of Greta Thunberg’s words from her book NO ONE IS TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE – a collection of 11 speeches about the climate crisis and global warming. First performed at Dramaten in January 2020. Authorized by Greta Thunberg.
Read moreWE WILL ROCK YOU
Featuring more than 20 hit Queen songs including “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Killer Queen,” “We Will Rock You,” “Somebody To Love,” “We Are the Champions,” “Don’t Stop Me Now,” and many more, WE WILL ROCK YOU follows two revolutionaries as they try to save rock ‘n’ roll…
Read moreWEDDING IN VENICE, THE
The Wedding in Venice is a comedy set in the 1980s. Cosimo is a flight attendent and apparently a prince. Lady Rosalind Suttor, the doyen of Sydney society, takes him under her wing in the hope that he will marry her daughter Hettie. She does not realise that Cosimo lives…
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Richard and Sarah are celebrating their 19th anniversary. Joining them on their big day, are their daughter Judith, her boyfriend Raymond, as well as Sarah’s parents, Simon and Olivia. A camera crew, in the process of shooting a documentary about marriage is also present. Two generations of married couples and…
Read moreWEEKEND, THE
Michael Palin’s first stage play takes a look at family values, which is not only funny but also has its darker side. It is about an elderly gentleman, Stephen Febble, who must endure a weekend with his daughter, her dreary husband, and their precocious child
Read moreWEIBERVOLKSVERSAMMLUNG
A free version of Aristophanes’ “Assemblywomen”. A group of women, led by the wise and redoubtable Praxagora, has decided that the women of Athens must convince the men to give them control of the city, as they are convinced they can do a better job. Disguised as men, the women…
Read moreWEIBSTEUFEL, DER
A woman lives in the mountains with her debilitated husband. She is very keen to have a baby but all she gets is silk. Her husband earns his money by smuggling, which is soon noticed by a frontier guard, who shortly gets to seduce the woman. She, however, quickly realizes…
Read moreWEIR, THE
A handful of single men are all regulars in a remote Irish pub where they in turn, excel in telling ghost stories. Then one day, when a woman named Valerie moves into the neighbourhood, they eagerly compete to impress her with the best story. However, she takes them all by…
Read moreWEISSBROTMUSIK
A play inspired by the authentic events regaring the so-called “U-Bahn thugs from Munich”. It’s about the three teenagers – Sedat, Aaron and Nurit – who live in a world filled with themes and conflicts they cannot identify with and which overwhelm them. Everyday situations are getting more and more…
Read moreWELCOME HOME
The theme of Tony Marchant’s WELCOME HOME is the guilt and anger of war survivors – staged in 1983 and later filmed by the BBC. The play follows the course of four squaddies in the Parachute regiment and their corporal from the time they prepare to disembark until their return…
Read moreWELCOME TO THE MOON
The title piece, Welcome to the Moon, is a reunion among friends at a Bronx bar, where sooner or later, everybody confesses their secret love.
Read moreWELT IM SPIEGEL
A collection of early Robert Gernhardt texts from the satirical magazine Pardon.
Read moreWELTENBRAND
Weltenbrand won the prize for best youth play at Heidelberger Stückemarkt in 2015. The starting point is April 22, 1915, the day on which the Germans introduce the first weapon of mass destruction: Poison gas. The Germans did not win the war, but they changed its face forever. Starting from…
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Nadja hasn’t left the apartment for weeks. She is careful, because she’s afraid. Nevertheless she agrees to meet with Andy, who’s full of expectations for a rendezvous with her. There’s gin and tonic and peanuts, but the evening doesn’t evolve as Andy had imagined. Joan and John are the perfect…
Read moreWENDELS HEIMAT
A provincial town in the south of Germany: Because he liked to dress in women’s clothing, Wendel was a victim of slander and send off to an asylum by the Third Reich. In the 60s, he returns to his hometown. Informers from back then are now dignitaries and Wendel becomes…
Read moreWENN ICH GROSS BIN, WILL ICH FRAULENZEN
As always, Johanna comes home from school to an empty apartment. She is a key child and already pretty independent. But she’s actually only eight years old and is afraid that the Queen of the Power, a character from her imagination, will call. After an eventful afternoon Johanna states: “When…
Read moreWESTERN CIVILIZATION! – THE COMPLETE MUSICAL (ABRIDGED)
Join Eric the Red on his expedition to Northern America, listen to Jeanne D’Arc sing gospel and see if Djengis Khan and Adolf Hitler are able to sing a duet. Travel through several world wars, from Mona Lisa to Einstein, from one great man to another – and one single…
Read moreWESTWIND
1953 in a small Bavarian town: In their new home, a group of Silesian and Sudeten Germans erect a large wooden hut as a house for the youth. They’re trying to save what can no longer stand to be saved and to pass on the memory of an old culture…
Read moreWET BRAIN
In a dilapidated home, three siblings gather around their alcoholic and brain-damaged father after the death of their mother in an attempt to keep the dysfunctional family together. During the course of the action they’re beamed to an extraterrestrial space where they all, including the mother, meet in a surreal…
Read moreWET HOUSE
When Andy, an idealistic young graduate, gets a job in a wet house, a homeless hostel where residents can drink alcohol, he is plunged into a twilight world where the rules about what is right and what is normal have become a little blurred. And that’s just among the other…
Read moreWEXFORD TRILOGY, THE
Billy Roche’s THE WEXFORD TRILOGY consists of the full length plays BELFRY, POOR BEAST IN THE RAIN and A HANDFULL OF STARS. For synopsis of the three plays please see under each title.
Read moreWHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU
A witty contemporary comedy that follows one person’s journey through a heart attack, a gay marriage, an obsession with Cher, and a trip to a concentration camp. So, yes, it’s a comedy!
Read moreWHAT IS THE MATTER WITH MARY JANE?
Based on the personal experience of the actor Sancia Robinson, this play bravely examines the nightmare of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia, from the perspective of one who has made it through to the sanity of self – acceptance. Brimming with courage, humour and poignancy. Published by Currency Press 1995 Premiere…
Read moreWHAT THE BUTLER SAW
The Prentices are not an ordinary couple. Dr. Prentice is a psychiatrist with his own hospital who believes that the best way to interview a girl for a job is to seduce her. Geraldine does her best to comply, but nothing is going to work smoothly in this nut house…
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