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WOLKEN.HEIM.
A monologue on identity and homeland in a highly artificial prose verse and manic “we-form,” which revolves around the exclusion of the strange or different. The source of this weave of quotations is the idealist philosophy and German language poetry, which is considered the origin of German Nationalism. The Germans,…
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WOMAN AND SCARECROW
Few Dramatists master the art of combining subtle poetry with deadly drama. Carr masters the art, and it is always a pleasure to be seduced by her language and absorbed by her mysterious and often chilling universes – if one dares. Death is always lurking behind the corner and in…
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WOMAN IN MIND
The comic poet of middle class life, always so very funny, goes deeper and darker in this triumphant play about a housewife named Susan who is married to a boring cleric named George. After getting knocked out by stepping on the tooth-end of a garden rake, Susan experiences hilarious hallucinations…
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WOMAN WHO AMUSES HERSELF, THE
The Mona Lisa has always captivated the world. But for Vincenzo Perugia, the painting holds a special power, one that compels him to steal it from the Louvre and return it to Italy. Before he returns it, however, he lives under the watchful smile of La Gioconda for over two…
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WOMAN WITH DOG’S EYES, THE (THE BOYCE TRILOGY 1)
Louis Nowra’s Australian family trilogy, ”The Boyce Trilogy” consists of the plays ”The Woman With Dog’s Eyes”, ”The Marvellous Boy” and ”The Emperor Of Sydney”. Property developer Boyce has one goal in life: to complete his final prestige project before his illness finishes him off and the sons take over…
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WOMEN BEHIND BARS
In this hilarious satire on B movies of the 1950’s, Mary-Eleanor, an innocent duped into crime, lands in the Greenwich Village Woman’s House of Detention which is presided over by a massive matron with taste for sadism and female flesh. Poor Mary-Eleanor ends up hardened and cynical, but that’s just…
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WOMEN IN THE DARK
Ukrainian play. What happens when light disappears, and the big city gets dark? Women in the Dark is a dark comedy for two actresses. It reconsiders the role of electricity in everyday life through the female experience in wartime. The women in Kyiv, Ukraine, exchange funny, sad and scary stories…
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WOMEN OF MANHATTAN
Described by the author as “an Upper West Side story,” this provocative, brilliantly stylized and often very funny play delves into the lives of three upscale Manhattan female “yuppies” whose financial success is counterbalanced by their unmet emotional needs.
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WOMEN OF TROY
This is the only preserved piece from Euripides’ three tragedies that deal with the prelude to the battle of Troy, the battle itself and the postlude. Affected by the most violent wars of his time, Euripides provided a horrendous portrayal of the brutality of the victors and the despair of…
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WOMEN OF TROY, THE
1 Act / 3M, 5F /Chorus of women / Possible doubling / A radio version is also available Euripides’ Tragedy is a frightening parable of the after-math of war: Hecuba, dethroned queen of defeated Troy, must see her city burned, her family humiliated, as she and her women wait to…
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WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF HRT
Best friends Vera and Anna have lots in common both being the wrong side of 40, experiencing marriage troubles as well as sharing a love of Irish singing sensation Daniel O’Donnell. During a trip to Donegal to see their idol live in concert they come face to face with the…
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WOMEN, THE
The play is an acidic commentary on the pampered lives and power struggles of various wealthy Manhattan socialites and up-and-comers and the gossip that propels and damages their relationships. While men frequently are the subject of their lively discussions and play an important role in the action on-stage, they are…
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WONDERFUL TENNESSEE
With this play, we are taken back to Friel’s Ballybeg, where three couples are sitting on the pier, awaiting the boat to take them to ‘The Mysterious and Different Island’. They spend the night and hours of anticipation singing, discussing serious matters as well as narrating good stories and all…
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WONDERLANDS
The Yirralong people have lodged a native title claim for the right to “possess, occupy and enjoy their ancestral lands”. Lon, a third generation pastoralist is terrified that his dream of passing the family property on to his son-in-law will be shattered. As the pressure mounts, long buried secrets begin…
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WOODS, THE
An intense and raw yet ultimately affecting love story about the conflicts and contradictions of a struggling young relationship. It is a two-character drama in three swiftly moving acts, and it centers on Ruth and Nick, a 20-something couple attempting a romantic weekend at a lakeside cabin owned by Nick’s…
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WOOLGATHERER, THE
Rose, a shy five-and-dime salesgirl whose life centres on reveries and daydreams, lives in a dreary Philadelphia apartment. Into her life saunters Cliff, a hard-working, hard-drinking truck driver. He is rough and witty and just as starved for love as she is. This little gem of a play features several…
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WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE
2 Acts / 2M (mid 50s, mid 20s) 1F (mid 50s) Frank, approaching death, talks for the last time to his son. They try to surmount the obstacles of sexuality, education, even class, that separate them Robert and his mother, Kath, are now confronted with the need to invent lives…
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WORGENGEL, DE
Inspired by Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Ange. The action takes place in a politician’s villa where a large company is invited for a midnight snack after the premiere of Verdi’s Othello. The company is soon being spellbound by the hand of an unexplained paralysis, and as the night approaches they…
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WORTLOSE, DIE
A monodrama written for an older actress. In school, the play’s protagonist falls in love with the popular boy of her class. To her own amazement, she later marries him. Here starts the marital martyrdom. She loses her voice and eventually kills her him. In prison, from which the story…
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WOUNDS TO THE FACE
Howard Barker’s controversial work explores the way in which we see ourselves and others through the character of the human face. The physiognomy of the face is central to our relationship with the outside world. It is the first thing we see when meeting strangers and the first they see…
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WRITE ME A MURDER
The play tells the story of the brothers Clive and David Rodingham, who inherit the family fortune upon the death of their father. They then meet business man Charles and his wife Julie, a would-be thriller writer. Charles is anxious to work with the brothers on property deals, and so…
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WRITERS
A ‘behind-the-scenes’ story of Harry, a successful playwright who decides he is going to make some ‘real money’ by writing scripts for a long running TV soap opera, ‘Diamond Hill’. But no sooner has he joined the team than he discovers that all is not as straight forward as he…
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WUT
Variable cast. In the ancient mythology, the goddess Hera blinds the hero Hercules to eliminate his own family in rage. In 2015, the gods have other names; also the god of the religious fanatics behind the terrorist attacks in Paris, which are the basis of the material in WUT. Jelinek…
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Y 2 K
This play revolves around Mr. and Mrs. Elliot, who are harassed one day by a young diabolic computer hacker. Henceforth, their identities are totally played about with, so utterly powerless they witness how she is pictured as a porn star while he is displayed as the leader of a paedophile…
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YALTA GAME, THE
This short play examines a theme from Anton Chekhov’s short story, ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’, which Chekhov wrote in Yalta in the autumn of 1899. The Yalta Game tells the story of an accountant who holidays alone, leaving his wife and family behind in Moscow. While away, he…
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YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, THE
David Hare was in charge of the staging of the Broadway version of Joan Didion’s National Book Award bestseller from 2005. Vanessa Redgrave played Didion. The play depicts the year after the death of her husband, author John Gregory Dune – at that time, her daughter Quintana was also seriously…
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YELLOW MOON (THE BALLAD OF LEILA AND LEE)
Yellow Moon is a modern Bonnie and Clyde tale that follows the fortunes of two teenagers on the run. Silent Leila is an introverted girl who has a passion for celebrity magazines. Stag Lee Macalinden is the deadest of dead-end kids in a dead-end town. They never meant to get…
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YEN
Hench is 16, Bobbie is 13. They live alone with their dog Taliban, playing PlayStation, watching porn; surviving. Sometimes their chaotic mum Maggie visits, occasionally she passes out on the front lawn. But when Jenny knocks on the door the boys discover a world far beyond what they know, a…
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YES, PRIME MINISTER
The original writers of the classic BBC TV series reunited for a new satirical take on Whitehall. Prime Minister Jim Hacker and his Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby are back, spinning out of control through the collapsing euro and austerity measures in a world of 24 hour news, Blackberrys and…
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YES, VIRGINIA
The story of two older women navigating the perils of aging in suburban Detroit. Virginia Campbell was a longtime housekeeper for Denise Miller and her family, helping Denise raise her children during a difficult divorce. But when she shows up for work, Denise is very confused. Especially since she thought…
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YOU KNOW I CAN’T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER’S RUNNING …
One of the most successful comedies in Broadway history. The theme is sex, in all its puzzling and fascinating manifestations, and the treatment of this is so skilful, tasteful and explosively funny that the plays are not only captivating and touching but universal in appeal.
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YOU STILL HERE
1 Act / 15 performers A play about being young and Tasmanian, living on an island and dreaming of leaving it and fearing the separation from it.
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YOU TOUCHED ME
Premiering on Broadway with Montgomery Clift and Edmund Gwenn in leading roles, this comedy is about the triumph of an old sea captain over a sadistic spinster sister was an early triumph for Tennessee Williams. Although the home in which she lived and ruled and the income on which she…
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YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN
The play is a musical portraying an average day in the life of Charlie Brown. While eating his packed lunch in the schoolyard he dreams about the little ginger haired girl Lucy. Linus is utterly fanatic about his sop while Charlie Brown’s dog Snoopy spends its time imagining being somebody…
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YOUNGER BATTLES THE POSSIBLE GHOST
There is almost certainly a ghost in Younger’s bedroom. What to do, what to do…
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YOUR MOTHER’S BUTT
This play concerns a therapist, who desperately tries to help a seriously disturbed client. One day, while the client rattles on about shoes and belts, he suddenly recalls a dream about his mother, which leads the therapist to believe that the treatments may be coming to an end.
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YOUR OWN THING
This is a modern rock-musical based on the classic TWELFTH NIGHT. Orson is the manager of the pop band Apocalypse, which has been reduced to a trio, as the fourth band member has been summoned to the army. The two twins, Viola and Sebastian have previously performed together, before they…
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YOUTOPIA
Award-winning play about a group of youngsters who have sneaked into a furniture store, but ended up staying there for a long time. It started as an anarchist act, but soon they find out that they are part of an advertising campaign for the furniture store.
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Z – THE MASKED MUSICAL OF ZORRO
The action takes place at the beginning of the 1800s, and tells the story of Diego Vega – a young wealthy nobleman who returns home to California after his grandfather’s death in Spain. His homecoming will be anything but happy, the country is in turmoil because of the Governors exorbitant…
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ZABIBI EN MUZALIFA (ZABIBI UND MUZALIFA)
This is the story of two Afghan girls under the Taliban regime and in the turmoil of war. They meet in a refugee camp and as different as they are, they share the same fate: both have lost their family. Their common survival strategy is to mutually share their roots,…
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ZANKI FRANSENOHR
A monologue about the cat, Zanki Fransenohr who lives in the streets of the Greek island of Crete and the spoiled luxury cat, Fredo, who has been forced to travel with his owner on holiday against its will. As the cat lady, Turi suddenly comes in danger both male cats…
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ZANNA, DON’T
What happens when the captain of the high school football team falls in love with the overachieving straight-A student? Enter Zanna, a magical, musical fairy who, with a wave of his wand, brings true love to one and all. (4 musicians) Piano/Vocal Guitar Bass Percussion
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ZAPPZARAPP
A comedy about the fear of failing: three worn out actors are trying to revive their supposedly glorious past. It becomes a race against time…
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ZEINA OCH NALLE
This is a Swedish play for young people and is about a Lebanese girl and a Finnish/Swedish guy. They are in the same class and do not care about each other even though the girl is very focused on boys. The guy has not yet begun to give girls a…
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ZEIT DER SCHILDKRÖTEN, DIE
A grotesque dream play – a dance of death for two illegal immigrants. Sami and Ali have fled to the south of Europe. For a starvation wages, they work in greenhouses. Soon, the two friends must realize that they will always be hunted and seen as an outcast: Annoying as…
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ZEITALTER DES ESELS
A dreamplay about four men in search of a new form of existence on the other side of the traditional role pattern.
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ZELDA ALONE
Throughout her life, Zelda Fitzgerald stood in the shadow of her famous husband, Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Her own literary talent was first given the public’s attention late in life. In this monologue, we see her one evening shortly before she burned to death at the mental sanatorium she was hospitalized…
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ZELLE DES SCHRECKENS, DIE
A playful variation on Deichsel’s “Frankenstein’s Curse”. The Frankenstein theme is converted into an independent horror picture – cruel and simultaneously comical.
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ZENA-BOMBA (BOMBENFRAU)
A harassed inner monologue and a hasty line of thoughts in a female terrorist’s mind the minutes before she makes her misdeed. The thoughts belongs to an individual, who feels destined to something higher; who again and again asks herself if her action is suicide or a heroic act, who’s…
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ZOO
Open stage musical for young people. The fantastical adventures of two Australian teenagers.
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ZOO, DER
The play begins in front of a zoological garden. In a twisted language, Specht gives a (sur)real portrait of a society of fortune hunters who verbally sniff at each other in front of the cages to others who runs a vicious play of pecking ordering. In the play’s second part…
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ZORBA
ZOBRA is the Greek equivalent to ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ but comes with a somewhat harsher plot. It has also been filmed starring Anthony Quinn, and tells the story of the genuinely happy tramp Zobra who meets the shy and restrained Nikos. They become friends for life and as it…
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ZUGLUFT
The play follows a family whose life falls apart when the father is attacked. The classmates bully the son because the father has taken the attack without making resistance. While the son and his friend, Kolya makes plans to avenge his father, the mother begins an intimate relationship with the…
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ZUR ZEIT DER DISTELBLÜTE
5 M / 1 set Kafka, Beckett and Ionesco have all inspired this playwright from Köln, Herman Moers stylistically. This play holds a strong romantic longing for beauty and warmth and invites the viewer to come up own opinions and idea for endings. Also, it offers a scenically stimulating form…
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ZUS VAN (SISTER OF)
Iseme has always been overshadowed by her famous sister, Antigone. She feels that her existence is unjustified, because she has never done anything special. Finally she begins to talk…
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ZÜST ODER DIE AUFSCHNEIDER
The brothers, Albert and Wugen Züst works at firefighters at a theatre. Backed by the art, they doze off. One dream takes them to the skies, towards the bird mountain, where they can be exactly what they want to be. They’re boasters and perhaps even secret artists. In Urs Widmer’s…
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ZWANZIGTAUSEND SEITEN
The casual laborer and daydreamer, Tony, faces a highly unusual accident: After having climbed up in a dumpster, hoping to find something good, a big box of books falls into his head. The content of the books takes residence in his brain, and he ends up in a psychiatric ward,…
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ZWEI BRÜDER DREI AUGEN
More and more often it happens that the (female) hermaphrodite, Frotiz wakes up and realizes that her gender has disappeared. Wova, her somewhat stupid brother, has anxious apocalyptic visions from his third eye that prevents him from leaving the apartment. They both live together with their grandmother who’s in a…
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ZWEI RECHTS ZWEI LINKS
Till and Bettina, two elderly actors, rehearse their old parts as they’ve been doing it every evening over the past 30 years. They’ve already begun as the door bell rings: In the door stands the young student, Sabine, who’s interested in a room that Bettina have announced that she wants…
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