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After a six-day honeymoon a spanking new lawyer, who has just won his first case (6 cents in damages), and his young bride, who is as pretty and addled as they come, move into the new, high-rent apartment that she has chosen for them. But the difficulty is, in order…

BARMAIDS tells the story of Nancy and Val who know how to run a pub. But when the Arms is bought by a syndicate, accountants start hatching new schemes. A play full of colourful stories and worrying rumours evoking the loyalty between barmaid and drinker. Published by Currency Press 1991…

BARNE’S PEOPLE are eight monologues written for some of the great stars of the English stage.

The main character in this musical is America’s great showman ‘Prince Hambug’ alias P. T. Barnum. Between 1835 and 1880 he travelled every route in America with his itinerant ‘Sensation Show’ purely based on swindle and trickery as his motto was ‘The last fool is yet to be born’. So…

The scene is Elizabeth Barrett’s room. Here she lives with her father, sisters and brothers. Never too healthy, she has been kept prisoner by her domineering father, who rules his family with unbelievable severity. Her brothers and sisters are reconciled to their father’s tyranny, but Elizabeth has in her a…

“Bartending is a classic, noble profession. You have to be everyone in one day to all strangers; you have to make everyone feel at home, welcoming and attentive, and knowledgeable and smart and fast.” Dette er bartenderens tunge lod; at lytte til stamgæsternes evige sorger og glæder – vi kender…

Krister Classon, who is the other half of the Swedish comedy team Stefan & Krister, had great success with this adaptation of Rickard Fuch’s book ”Du ser inte så gammal ut! – Visst är det roligt att åren går…” The monologue is about a man who suffers from age-phobia, and…

As the curtain opens, in semidarkness, amid shouted directions, noisy stumblings and obvious confusion, a family spills out of the stairway, dropping luggage and household possessions all over the room, and collapsing in relief, fleeing an unbearable Noise. Zénobie is the only one to acknowledge the Noise, which had chased…

A math professor turns from Jekyll to Hyde while watching her son compete in a little league playoff game.

A great drama in Southern States environment with all the typical symbolic characters and action patterns of Williams. The story could be home town for the sensational press´ articles about crimes of passion. The play is about Val, the lonely hunter and hunted male wild beast that suddenly enters a…

The elderly yet energetic Valentina Nrovka is summoned by the Hermitage Art Museum in Leningrad to confirm the authenticity of a painting – The Bay of Nice – attributed to the famous artist (and her old art teacher) Matisse. Her nervous daughter Sophia Yepileva accompanies her to the museum, and…

A box filled with gold and a fratricide has placed a curse over Avram Tanourkov’s family and through three generations the Tanourkov clan have not found peace. Boyan Papazov lets his characters tell their stories with a linguistic and dramatic brilliance. Stories of blood and revenge, of religion and superstition,…

They sit there every day. On the bench. Chain-smoking losers, anonymous faces we do not wish to know more about. Throughout his entire life, Kaj has failed everyone and everything, running away from any kind of responsibility. After 19 years of being out of contact with his daughter Liv, she…

The drama treats the actual problem – children from broken homes – in a sympathetic and reliable way. The play shows the harm a broken home can get and how it can influence an imaginative and sensitive 15-year old girl, who without being bad by nature can be persuaded into…

The story presented in this exhilarating and praised musical takes place in America in the 1950ies, but is equated with the reality shows of today, in which hopeful people attempt to achieve their 15 minutes of fame. The story about the American rock ‘n’ roll championship, hosted by the slick…

Examining the nature of seduction and attraction the play brings into explosive confrontation two legends of America’s recent past: the sultry, platinum blonde movie star, Jean Harlow; and the baby faced, quick-tempered outlaw, Billy The Kid. Drawn to each other, but constrained from yielding by their towering egos, the two…

A play about a young Armenian couple in the United States after Turkey’s Armenian genocide during World War1. Has been produced at major theaters across the United States and in Toronto, London, Buenos Aires and Schweiz.

The story takes place in a small town in the outskirts of Oslo in the mid 1070’s where we follow the 4 main characters who are boys ages 14 and 15. The menu is set on girls and especially the Beatles who are everyone’s big idol. The boys’ dream is…

Beatrice lives in a run down terrace in Woolloomooloo with her sister, her mum and her mother’s current boyfriend. Thirteen years old, autistic and disconnected from her dysfunctional family, Beatrice takes refuge in her mind. There, she delights in the music and videos of a bygone era: The Thin Man,…

A mother and her daughter, at the ages of 60 and 40, live in a most horrible relationship. One day the daughter meets a man and through that, we follow her attempt to release herself from the mother, in order to fulfil the potential love affair. Her endeavouring liberation is…

Becky Shaw has no family, no friends, no education, no job and no leading role in this comedy. She does, however, have a remarkable ability to stir up the lives of the main characters when she meets them. Max, a cynical financial advisor is set up with Becky by Becky’s…

Susan is a vicar’s wife of unspecified age, but probably in her early 40’s. She is married to a trendy, “up-and-coming” cleric by the name of Geoffrey. Their marriage is mediocre as is her life and she turns to the bottle for comfort. On her late-night meanderings into Leeds to…

Alma is very rich, but she has reached middle age with little else. Twice married, her first and only sexual encounter has left her frigid with the emotional outlook of a spinster. Now she is seeking companionship as avoid the cold embrace og loneliness. She suggests a marriage of convenience…

The play is set in a French village near the German border on the eve of a local festival. When an English couple, Stanley and Brenda, obtain a room for the night whilst on a motoring trip, they consider themselves lucky – but not for long. In Brenda’s absence less…

A Father and a Daughter share a small bed. He talks frantically about his extraordinary past in furniture sales; she talks no less compulsively about anything at all, to fill the terrible silence in her head. Everything is frantic and broken and ugly because they can’t stop talking. If only…

This is a wickedly funny play about the blithe inconsideration of the suffering. Trevor and Susannah are a couple whose marriage is heading towards the rocks – and the play depicts an endless night in which they inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest, three other couples. The play…

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John Jo Mulligan finds himself in a situation with which his pious conscience cannot cope: more or less against his will, he has spent a night with the cunning seductress Angela. Full of remorse, and dreading the ruin of his reputation, he tries to get rid of her, fearing that…

A lonely, mousey girl – a bookkeeper – has embraced the cultural revolution by becoming a psychodrama actress. One rainy day, she ducks into a Greenwich Village doorway and the boy who offers her shelter turns out to be a perfect match. He’s a department store buyer and to spice…

BEG YOUR PARDON is the story of Thea, who is afflicted by a great feeling of injustice especially in relation to immigration, as her friend Marwa is a victim. Thea cannot bear her own happiness and decides to emigrate, leaving her husband and son behind to travel with Chica to…

“The Funeral” is the continuation of the award winning film and play ”The Celebration”. The story takes place in a beach hotel ten years after the tragic events portrayed in “The Celebration”. Helge is dead. His wife Else and their children Christian, Michael and Helene are being reunited for the…

An early work about a defrocked priest rediscovering Australia after years in Africa. Ripe for re-working.

In Being Norweigan, Sean, just out of prison, invites Lisa back to his flat for a drink. Lisa says she’s Norwegian. She feels Sean must be Norwegian too. In this dark, funny encounter two outsiders reach out to each other across the deep fjords of the heart. “In Norway we’re…

The premise of Alan Bowne’s play BEIRUT has the potential of being intriguing and timely. In the near future, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan people are quarantined for being carriers, or fully infected, with a disease that sounds a lot like AIDS. Torch, a former street guy from…

Belcher’s Luck is a wild tragi-comedy full of symbolism about fertility and impotence.

Artie is a lonely middle-aged sacristan in a local church who falls in love with a married woman who comes to change flowers on the altar. Also in his life are a bedridden mother, whom we never see, a simple-minded altar boy called Dominic and a troubled young priest. Artie’s…

This is the story of Major Joppolo, who is assigned to administrate the Sicilian town of Adano after World War II and his attempt to return it to its pre-war tranquillity. His initial actions include feeding and clothing the villagers, who have been left starved and destitute by the ravages…

hen an escaped slave shows up at Fort Monroe demanding sanctuary, General Benjamin Butler is faced with an impossible moral dilemma—follow the letter of the law or make a game-changing move that could alter the course of U.S. history?

They said it was unachievable! They said it couldn’t be done! Against all odds the outstanding Daniel Veil Theatre Collective has succeeded in creating a sensational stage adaptation of General Lew Wallace’s timeless classic BEN HUR for a cast of just four actors, presenting one of the most authentic versions…

This comic drama is about doing good and do-gooding and about the way the world changes around you just when you are trying to change it yourself. An architect who believes that if you give people good environments they will be good people is forced to design a high-rise, characterless…

Ingenious stage adaptation of Andri Snær Magnason’s imaginative children’s book classic – here for a cast of only 3 actors. One day an adult land his spaceship on the harmonious blue planet that is inhabited only by children and brings it into catastrophic imbalance. Do the children themselves bear some…

A reflection on Germany’s reestablished capital city after the fall of the wall – dealing with both what it represents in European history as well as what it meant in David Hare’s own life. Published with the monologue WALL about the Israeli West Bank Barrier.

How to escape from East Berlin ? Easy, dig a tunnel in a senile old lady’s home ! It was all going smoothly for them until the arrival of a Stasi agent and his wife came on the scene … A hilarious thriller / comedy.

A play about collapse in the ’90s. The downing of the Berlin Wall unites two sisters from East Berlin and their native London.

The monologue A STORY FROM BERLIN is about the Berlin waiter, Wiebke Puls, who lives in a fantasy world, where he is the world’s biggest actor. As a self promoted victim Wiebke Puls dreams about being a maniac, who can shake up his surroundings, which his shy personality can’t keep…

After committing an unforgivable crime, Leroy is granted one final wish: a chance to make amends with his long-lost lover, Berta. Their reunion swells from a quarrelsome conjuring of the past to an impassioned plot to escape their impending fate.

The authors Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson have written 16 books about Bert Ljung – a series of stories that are highly entertaining, but also contain serious parts about becoming an adult; about girls, diaries, summertime adventures and rock ‘n’ roll. This play is based on 6 books of a…

The wolf Ferdinand has grown up among the sheep, and has become one of them. When one of the sheep is found dead, the suspicion is immediately directed at him and he flees to the other wolves. A goose claims to be a fox, and a bear to be a…

Music and lyrics by Carol Hall Dialogue by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson This musical is based on the true story of a legendary Texas brothel known as the Chicken Ranch which operated from the 1840s to 1973 when it was finally shut down by the efforts of a…

Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962), the influential curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University, was an inveterate diarist and correspondent whose intimates included Ruskin, Hardy and T. E. Lawrence. Whitemore has adapted ”The Best of Friends” from several decades’ worth of letters exchanged by Cockerell, George Bernard Shaw and Laurentia…

A mythical love story between Asan and Alina, who meet and are instantly drawn to each other. However, their mutual fear of being abandoned, places them in a power-relation, trying to hold on to each other… A symbolic and grotesque depiction on love, lust and power relations…

After a terribly ‘wet’ party, a successful authoress is locked up in a room at a publishing house together with her editor, a literary critic as well as a young office assistant. Consequently, the play develops into a wonderful comedy about revelations, alcohol, sexual relationships, friendly turns and last but…

An American comedy in verse. La ‘Bete’ is a play about the tuff being of the theatre and entertainment business. A baroque comedy and a fight on words, opinions and speech between the elitist and fine cultural theatre manager Élomire and the popular street entertainer Valére. The fight begins when…

This is a ‘backward’ comedy, in nine scenes, based on the eternal triangle theme. Effectively, the play starts in present time, in this case 1977 where an adulterous affair comes to an end. The people involved are the publisher Robert, his wife Emma and lastly his best friend Jerry, a…

Outside the city’s gate the Emperor confronts a blind beggar who has recently lost his dog. The beggar has nothing more to lose, so he tells the Emperor the truth about himself.

BETTY NANSEN is a tribute to the famous woman, actress and theatre manager. The play depicts the artist and the theatre’s reponsibility in hard times.

The play tells the story of one of Europe’s greatest and bloodiest wars, the War of the Spanish Succession, which opened the eighteenth century and shaped the course of history for generations. This great and bloody war could have been avoided if King Carlos II of Spain had had an…

The neurotic Bruce is a manic bi-sexual who meets the unstable writer Prudence through a personal advert. The date is a total disaster! A week later, they meet again by chance at the very same restaurant. Prudence has reacted to a new and exiting advert – and the author is…

A musical farce in four parts.

“See this show or go to hell!” This is how The Reduced Shakespeare Company launched their concentrated examination of the bible from figs leaves to doomsday. We gallop from Eva to Exodus, whilst going through the gospels, the epistles and the apostles. Avoid condemnation and receive this hilarious tribute to…

In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky took this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the…

BIG FISH 12-Chair is the new, small-cast version (for 12-actors) of the Broadway musical. Based on the celebrated novel by Daniel Wallace and the acclaimed film directed by Tim Burton, BIG FISH centers on Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman who lives life to its fullest… and then some! Edward’s incredible,…

The play takes place in a hospital room. Tony (20), a baseball player, has an infection in his leg and insists on joining today’s big game even though the doctors won’t let him. Dave (20) has a lung infection, sleeps poorly at night and spends the majority of his time…

Clifford Odets´ THE BIG KNIFE is a showdown with Hollywood, where he for eight years where stuck in the movie industry and wrote scripts. The growing lack of human compassion and the artistic world and the so called “business ethics” that is often confused with American film business, have seldom…

A journalistic thriller about mass manipulation in the age of big data! While a scandal splashes the President of the United States and agitates the editorial staff of New York Investigation, journalist Julia Robinson sees her life wavering in a courtroom when she thinks she recognizes her companion, who died…

The play is a meeting between Selma Lagerlöf and Tora Teje, a young actress who was to star in Julius Jaensons film based on Lagerlöf’s book “The coachman” but who lost her part when she lost her place as Juliu’s mistress. She is looking for an explanation and brings chaos…

Billy Bishop Goes to War is a Canadian musical and one of the most famous and widely-produced plays in Canadian theatre, it dramatizes the life of Canadian World War I fighter pilot Billy Bishop. The actor plays 18 different characters, accompanied on piano and vocals.

A teenager in a North Country town, Billy Fisher weaves a world of his own out of his day dreams. He is an incurable liar, idle and dishonest, and to escape from his dull job as an undertaker’s clerk and his dreary domestic background he imagines himself in so many…

Winner of a Tony award for Best Play. This is Chapter Two in the trilogy of Eugene Morris Jerome, alter ego of the youthful Neil Simon (First Chapter is Brighton Beach Memories and Third Chapter is Broadway Bound). When we last met Eugene, he was coping with adolescence in the…

Bina’s family grows the finest apples in all of Korea. But when war forces her to flee her home, Bina is alone in the world with just six precious apples to her name. Can these meager possessions help her find her family? Join Bina on her spirited journey that ranges…

Set in the Midwest, The Binding tells the story of Isaac, a deeply closeted, religious teen whose childhood imaginary friend, Poppy, returns on the eve of his sixteenth birthday. As Poppy begins to unravel Isaac’s tightly wound secrets, both must learn to escape the smothering identities they have chosen. The…