Works
CARDINAL D’ESPAGNE, LE
It is the year of 1517. The leading character is cardinal Cisneros, Spanish Grand Inquisitor and guardian of the young emperor Karl V. Through the character of the cardinal the difficulties of creating a union between an authentic religious life and political activity is illustrated.
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In this play we follow the two brothers, Aston and Mick who live together. One day, during the winter months, the oldest brother Aston brings home a seemingly knackered man called Davies. It quickly becomes obvious that Davies is utterly callous but even so Aston kindly offers him a place…
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This play is based on a structure derived from Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde. In interconnected series of 11 extreme scenes that range from the erotic to the macabre and everything in between (two character set-ups feature one character from each scene turning up in the next scene, and so on),…
Read moreCARMELA FULL OF WISHES
It’s Carmela’s birthday, and she’s finally old enough to accompany her big brother on his errands. On their way to the laundromat, past fields of what her Mamí calls “flores de cempazuchitl”, Carmela finds a puffy white dandelion to blow, but her brother asks “Did you even make a wish?”…
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The story about Carmen, the ultimate femme fatale, is one of the most grandiose love stories in world literature. The French author Prosper Marimée wrote the story in the 1840ies, based on an anecdote told to him by an Andalusian duchess. However, it was George Bizet’s opera from 1875 that…
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Greig’s modern Casanova is a spy and double agent, who works under-cover in his eternal intercontinental search for pleasure. One day his female benefactor requires him home in order to exhibit all his secrets from the sexual underworld. Unaware, he is followed by an armed female private detective. A witty…
Read moreCASE OF THE CRUSHED PETUNIAS, THE
This humorous playlet tells the story of Dorothy Simple, a woman trapped in prim and proper Massachusetts, until an unexpected visit from LIFE Inc. helps her break free from her dreary life.
Read moreCASH ON DELIVERY
This fast-paced British farce concerns a con artist who has duped the welfare authorities for years by claming every type of benefit for the innumerable people he claims live at his address. This scam nets him tens of thousands tax-free. Just when he decides to kill off many of the…
Read moreCAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
The rich, tyrannical owner of a cotton plantation, Big Daddy, returns home from a clinic unaware that he is dying of cancer. Except for his wife, the older members of Big Daddy’s family, two sons and two daughters-inlaw, all know his true condition. Indeed, it is really because of Big…
Read moreCAT WHO WALKED BY HIMSELF, THE (KÖTTURINN SEM FÓR SÍNAR EIGIN LEIÐIR)
This is a play for children based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling. The characters of the play consist of four domestic animals: the cat, the dog, the horse and the cow, as well as the husband, the wife and the child. The play touches the subject of civilisation…
Read moreCATALYST, THE
Duncan loves to turn current moral concepts and maxims up side down. This is also what he does in this case. When the curtain falls in “The Catalyst” two women and a man find themselves at the beginning of a more than usually controversial ménage á trois. Up until then…
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Catastrophe is a short play by Samuel Beckett, written in French in 1982 at the invitation of A.I.D.A. (Association Internationale de Défense des Artistes) and “[f]irst produced in the Avignon Festival (21 July 1982) … Beckett considered it ‘massacred.’” It is one of his few plays to deal with a…
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CATCH AS CATCH CAN subverts all your expectations: What seems like a family comedy at first, takes a sharp turn with the introduction of a terrifying mental illness that seems to rip apart not only the person who suffers from it, but the perception of the play itself – a…
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The play contains music by Shaun Davey. Here is another wry comedy about two Northern Irish songwriters who pursue the long road to big-time pop while being dogged by the metaphysical shadows of the Irish Troubles – not to mention by some real bullets. Fleeing Belfast, where they have been…
Read moreCATHÉDRALE DES COCHONS / BASILICA OF PIGS
A linguistically rich dramatical poem in monologue form, where an incarcerated in a Haitian prison speaks about poverty, corruption, hypocrisy, violence and power. 1 actor – can be played by a person regardless of gender.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical is based on the Nobel prize winning TS Elliot’s world famous and beloved poetry collection “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” from 1939. It premiered in London’s West End on May 11, 1981. It was an immediate success and was highly acclaimed both by an enthusiastic…
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Open stage 1970s musical about drugs, dropouts, conservation and Australian history.
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Obie Winner: Meta-theatre, cross-cultural installation-theatre, gender, race – it’s all there. It is also funny. A dissident Chinese artist enters the editorial office of a prominent magazine and gets quizzed on what of his remarkable dissident story is actually true. Then we meet another Chinese artist… Every scene negates the…
Read moreCAUGHT IN THE NET
This play is a sequel to RUN FOR YOUR WIFE.We find John Smith eighteen years later, still happily married to his two unsuspecting wives. He now has a sixteen-year old son, Gavin, by Barbara in Streatham, and a fifteen-year old daughter, Vicki, by n Wimbledon. One day Gavin and Vicki…
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This is a typical English comedy about the married business man with a weakness for young women. His troubles start for real the day he decides to marry one of them, without telling his wife. The play has rightfully acclaimed great success in several cities around Europe.
Read moreCE FORMIDABLE BORDEL
This is a dramatization of the writer’s novel ¨Solitaire¨. A deep philosophical drama revealing human cruelty and the tragic meaninglessness of life, but at the same time filled with humorous artfulness. ¨The Lonesome¨ of the novel is ¨The Person¨ in the drama. He is dumb until the last scene. He…
Read moreCE QUE LE DICTATEUR N’A PAS DIT (WHAT THE DICTATOR DID NOT SAY)
Despite massive riots and upheavals in 2011 the concept of freedom, autonomy and self-determination is not self-evident in most Middle Eastern countries. In this text the Tunisian playwright and lawyer Meriam Bousselmi, who participated in the revolt gave the floor to a disposed dictator. It is a riveting, subtly accusing…
Read moreCELEBRATION
The set for this play reveals two tables at a restaurant in London. Around the first table, two wealthy married couples are celebrating the one pair’s anniversary. The women are sisters and the yuppies are brothers. At the next table, an ambitious busyness man, in his 30’ies is seated with…
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Despite her father’s dislike, the young Celine gets romantically involved with the German writer-to-be Emilie and becomes pregnant. World War 1 bursts out and Emile is forced to join the German army and to leave Celine and their child behind. The play is about three generations and about hatred and…
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This is a terribly hilarious play about, ‘The Knockout Sisters’; the wrestling group that finally managed to get rid of their wicked manager, ‘Bigman’. A black humoured satire about the lowest of the lowest sales methods within the entertainment industry.
Read moreCEMETERY CLUB, THE
Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband’s graves. Ida is sweet-tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the…
Read moreCET ANIMAL ETRANGE
Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s novels. The strange animal – the human being – (first of all maybe the man and then his relationship with the equally strange animal, the woman) never stops fascinating Chekhov, who has given us wonderful dramas and also a series of novels concerning the same subject.…
Read moreCHAISES, LES
This fascinating play is written in 1951 and is considered as one of Ionesco’s most important works. On a desert island an old couple lives. They are in their nineties. The man functions as a porter even though it is hard to imagine how this is possible in a tower…
Read moreCHAMPAGNE FOR DELILAH
The great West End director David Normandy only lives for his theatre, and his wife, Lee. But when he suddenly falls in love with the young enchanting actress, Olivia, he has no choice but to tell his wife and separate. What the new couple doesn’t know is that Lee is…
Read moreCHANGING MINDS
At Playa Sola High School, it’s business as usual – the jocks, geeks, popular kids, etc., all try to navigate a world of insecurities, grades, fashions and text messages. Then, during a school trip to a historic mission, the minds of two high school seniors are inexplicably switched. Suddenly, Kyle…
Read moreCHANGING ROOM, THE
A semi-pro Northern England rugby league team meet in the changing room one day a week. There they perform their pregame initiation rites, strip down, loosen muscles and get in their uniforms, but also give expression to their hurts, desires and fighting instincts.
Read moreCHAPEL PERILOUS, THE
2 Acts / 3M, 2F plus chorus of 4 or more Composer Frank Arndt. Open stage with music. Now more than 25 years old Dorothy Hewett’s epic play has grown into a classic of the new Australian Theatre and Sally Banner into a national heroine. A major statement of the…
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From the slums of London to the heights of Hollywood, Chaplin is the showbiz Broadway musical about the silent film legend the world couldn’t stop talking about – Charlie Chaplin. The musical reveals the man behind the legend, the undeniable genius that forever changed the way America went to the…
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Based on part of Neil Simons own life, the play mixes laughter with heartache. George Schneider, a writer whose wife has recently died, returns to a lonely apartment. His younger brother Leo, a theatrical press agent and born matchmaker, tries to snap George out of his emotional tailspin by supplying…
Read moreCHARLES TANTE
A new musical based on the beloved film, Charles Tante. Charles and Peter persuade their friend Ditlev to pose as a chaperone so they can flirt with their crushes Laura and Lone during the summer. Reluctantly, Ditlev dresses up as Charles’ aunt, the Brazilian multimillionaire Donna Lucia d’Alvadorez, as he…
Read moreCHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world’s most unusual candy maker.
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A road movie conveying a story about the two very different young women Charlot and Charlotte, who meet randomly and end up driving through Denmark from Copenhagen to Skagen. On their journey, they encounter a series of various individuals, from the senile Birksted and the psychotic mass-murderer Paul-Teddy, to the…
Read moreCHARLOTTES, LES
On the French-speaking stages Lucien Lambert is considered one of the most popular authors. The chamber comedy LES CHARLOTTES about two bitchy actresses, Shirley and Sheila, has taken Paris with storm and has played to full houses at several theatres. The play is a vital comedy about the art of…
Read moreCHASE ME COMRAD
A Russian ballet dancer, defects to Britain and a riot of comedy reigns, as he tangles with a British Navy Commander, Russian Agents, the local constabulary and well meaning friends. ‘Splendidly funny…agonies of helpless laughter’ – The Guardian.
Read moreCHASING THE DRAGON
According to the ancient legend, if you catch a glimpse of the Dragon’s tail, you will meet with good fortune, but good fortune does not always reward the pure heart. Carol, a drug runner who was caught after putting her freedom on the line, in an attempt to secure a…
Read moreCHATEAU EN SUEDE
The first dramatic work of this female writer which takes place on a castle in Sweden does not follow the rules of the controversial theatre. Through a series of short scenes, which balance between risqué recklessness and powerful drama, one is charmed by a sparkling spiritual dialogue spoken by the…
Read moreCHAUSSETTES OPUS 124, LES
It’s winter in Paris and the snow showers are falling thickly. On the empty stage in a cold theatre two elderly actors are rehearsing on a play. They have never worked together before and only know each other as former celebrities. One of them works intuitively, the other one intellectually…
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A radio version is also available Multi-award winning and widely-produced play about the murky goings-on of spies and playwrights in the Elizabethan Theatre. Strong contemporary flavour in style and language. Features William Shakespeare, Robert Green and an Australian Cut- Purse. Robert Greene lives in a noisy, bustling underworld of spies,…
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Allen and Michelle have been living together for eighteen months. It is the first real relationship for both of them. Michelle thinks they should marry; Allen isn’t sure. His hesitancy drives her home to her parents for advice. Michelle’s Father isn’t aware that it is Allen’s mother he has been…
Read moreCHEEVER EVENING, A
John Cheever, master chronicler of Americas post-war angst and alienation, and how it affected a burgeoning suburban class, left a storehouse of dramatic possibilities in his fiction, largely unexplored purely by dint of his chosen artistic medium: prose. In A CHEEVER EVENING, A. R. Gurney brings to light these possibilities…
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Two women are both in the ladies room after a theatre play: there is only one toilet and the door is locked. So they stand and wait. Then after some time, it turns out that a mysterious person is hiding behind the door. It is difficult to detect the sex…
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Chéri tells the story of the end of a six year affair between an aging retired courtesan, Léa, and a pampered young man, Chéri. The play turns all conventions upside-down.
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A comedy about love, money, the place of each sibling within the family, feelings which evolve as we grow and what parents owe to their children Pierre, Jules and Luise Gaulthier get on tremendously and love their parents deeply. When their parents summon them urgently – for important news –…
Read moreCHEVAL EVANOUI, LE
This time the setting is not a castle in Sweden but an estate in England, where a bittersweet and elegantly performed erotic game is acted out in a style which reminds you of Marivaux and Musset.
Read moreCHEZ NOUS
This comedy is rich in funny dialogues. The agony is intertwined with scathingly funny social observations.
Read moreCHICKS WILL DIG YOU
Jasper is low. He hasn’t had a meaningful cuddle in three years. He hasn’t even had a peck on the cheek. To reduce the blues, his oversexed friend Sebastian gives him a birthday present that changes his life. The Hunt is the world’s most successful pick-up guide and Jasper is…
Read moreCHILD CRYING, A
Ian and his partner are living a normal life together in their well organised flat. One day their new neighbour downstairs, Guy, a middle-aged, unpublished writer, pays a visit when Ian’s alone. He tells Ian about the strange things that has been happening to him lately. Guy seems to constantly…
Read moreCHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
After three years in the Peace Corps, James, a young speech therapist, joins the faculty of a school for the deaf, where he is to teach lip-reading. He meets Sarah, a school dropout, totally deaf from birth, and estranged – both from the world of hearing and from those who…
Read moreCHILDREN OF THE RAIN
A drama about extraordinary children, presenting the thoughts and opinions of British children about children in other parts of the world. By the author of Billy Elliott.
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Mickey Ross, a millionaire, has bought a private jet as a present for his much younger girlfriend. This move is going to be the first step away from the limelight. When he is about to leave the office for good, he gets a phone call. What follows is going to…
Read moreCHIP IN THE SUGAR, A
Part of Talking Heads. Graham, a middle-aged bachelor, emotionally retarded and chronically dependent upon his mother, finds life very difficult, especially when Mother meets an old flame and seems set to marry him. Graham’s old insecurities rear their ugly heads again but fate eventually rescues Graham who resumes his normal…
Read moreCHORUS LINE, A
The play is a tribute to all chorus dancers whose hard work is in demand but is rarely noticed by the critics. The musical is a line of vignettes put together by each of the 18 applicants hoping to occupy one of the 8 places in the chorus. Pushed by…
Read moreCHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL, A
A diffident widower attempts to escape loneliness by joining the local amateur light operatic society. By accident rather than by design (in fact, by not saying “no” to anything – be it a request to obtain confidential information from his company or an offer of illicit sex) he advances from…
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In CHRIST’S DOG the dying Lazar, arch-seducer and bigamist, treads out a journey he feels compelled to undertake to reach accommodation with his past. At every stage of his search, a different version of the untold story of Christ’s dog is proposed to him. Lazar understands that his seemingly worthless…
Read moreCHRISTIANE F. WIR KINDER VOM BAHNHOF ZOO
In the 1970s, West-Berlin toilettes were the most interesting place to be. Not even Studio 54 would be able to keep track. The railway station by the Berlin Zoo forms the frame and hangout for a large group of very young people selling themselves for a fix. Christiane F. is…
Read moreCHRISTINA’S WORLD
An operetta recreating a young girl’s memories of her family and her tragic love affair.
Read moreCHRISTMAS CAROL FARCE, THE
Charles Dickens’s ghost arranges for a high school production of A Christmas Carol to be broadcast on TV. The cast is ecstatic, until they learn their performance must be cut to one hour. At the TV studio, they discover it must be cut to 40 minutes for commercials. Just before…
Read moreCHRISTMAS CAROL, OR GENTLEMAN CALLER
This short play takes place on Christmas Eve in a small apartment where the young prostitute, Carol, lives on her own. She gets a call from a new customer who wants to meet her the same night. A man dressed up as Santa Claus turns up so she thinks it’s…
Read moreCIMÉTIERE DES VOITURES, LA
2 F / 5 M / 1 Female voice / 2 Male voices drama The stage is an old car site, driven as a hotel. The waiter, Milos, provides service for the “guests” staying in the car wrecks. He empties pots and serves breakfast “in bed”. He lets the girl…
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This new musical take on the traditional tale has a bookish and nearsighted heroine who finds and captures the heart of a studious prince. Full of wit, warmth, and charm, this Cinderella contains a beauteful original score and a few unexpected twists that make it a funny and lovable show…
Read moreCINDERELLA: THE REAL STORY
This new take on an old classic tells the forgotten stories hidden in the fairy tale we all know so well. Hilarious, imaginative, and powerful, this play is specifically designed to be performed by young performers and may be adapted to a virtual or in-person performance venue.
Read moreCIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION
In an artsy small town, an unlikely collection of strangers sign up for Marty’s “Adult Creative Drama” class: a recently divorced carpenter, a high school junior, a former actress, and Marty’s husband. Unfolding like a charmingly funny indie film, the group plays Marty’s imaginative (and sometimes awkward) theatre games. But…
Read moreCIRCLE, THE
Rich in humour, wit, conflict and depth this play is a lasting contribution to the theatre by an important twentieth-century writer. Lady Kitty, who had given up a stuffy life with her titled husband to run away with a young adventurer, watches Elizabeth tangle herself in the same situation Lady…
Read moreCITIZEN, THE
THE CITIZEN is the world’s first tabloid opera, and in 2003 it received the Danish Reumert Award for Best Music Performance. The story begins at the time where the rich and powerful newspaper tycoon Hearst, is going through his worst nightmare; suddenly being the victim, in own person, of the…
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They are sixteen years old; they pierce each others ears, dream about love, dream about guys, smoke joints and have children. Everything is chaos and gently they try to find a way out, but how can one find one’s way in a world, where everyone are barking up the wrong…
Read moreCITY OF ANGELS
‘City of Angels’ is the story about a young author who is working on his first manuscript that he wants to send to a Hollywood producer. His film is similar to the old Humphrey Bogart films about Sam Spade; the amiable, sharp-witted though often unlucky, private detective who, despite the…
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THE CITY is the sequel to THE COUNTRY from 2000. It is a riddling horror about a normal middle-class couple; Chris, who is about to lose his job and his wife Clair, who is working as a translator and who accidentally meets an author who informs her that he has…
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1 F / 3 M Drama in one act A powerful and moving drama in which an ageing father is forced to come to grips with the crushing reality of his daughter’s senseless murder. Grilled relentlessly by a dispassionate detective, the father is unable to bring his memory into focus…
Read moreCLARA S. MUSIKALISCHE TRAGÖDIE
The anachronistic gathering of three historical figures – Clara and Robert Schumann meet the Italian poet laureate and national hero, Gabriele d’Annunzio in his villa in the year 1929. The dominating theme is the tense relationship between art and money, which most of all applies to Clara. Up until her…
Read moreCLARENCE DARROW
This play is based on Clarence Darrow for the Defense by Irving Stone. Here is the famous attorney reminiscing over his long and renowned career, touching on many of his famous trials including the “Monkey” trial and the sensational Leopold-Loeb case. Darrow reviews much of America’s legal history with salty…
Read moreCLAXON TROMBETTE E PERNACCHI
Trumpets and Raspberries is a farce with the traditional ingredients of mistaken identity and its hilarious consequences, but it also has a strong political message. It was written by the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Dario Fo, and was first performed in 1981 under its original Italian title,…
Read moreCLEANSED
In a rehabilitation clinic, resembling a concentration camp, several individuals are put through a ‘purification process’ in order to rid them from anything abnormal. So the play consists of shocking scenic images that concurrently insist that love will always prevail.
Read moreCLERAMBARD
Tyrannical Comte de Clerambard and his family are living in destitution until he is transformed by a monk and tries to emulate Francis of Assisi. His family thinks he is mad and takes steps to combat the disease.
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