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CLICK
A techno-thriller that begins when a young woman is raped at a fraternity and ends in a future where corporations promise a new body with the swipe of a screen, CLICK follows a hacktivist named Fresh who turns industrial espionage into high art. As this virtual Banksy takes over the…
Read moreCLOACA
Pieter, a once enthusiastic art historian now working as a civil servant, gets in trouble when the local government wants him to return the works of art that he has received as birthday presents over the years. The paintings are now worth millions. He refuses and asks his friend and…
Read moreCLOCKS AND WHISTLES
This play concerns the lives of people living in the big cities, seeking grounding and a form of identity. We meet Henry who has several casual acquaintances though no true and close friends. Also, there is Anne, an actress, who changes between using Henry and simply ignoring him. And lastly…
Read moreCLOCKWORK ORANGE, A
Told by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. Anthony Burgess’ 1963 classic stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a classic of twentieth century post-industrial alienation often are shocking us into a…
Read moreCLOSER
This play revolves around four people of different professions; a stripper, a photographer, a doctor and a journalist, who are all constantly searching for closeness. It is an acidy, black comedy about love, jealousy and guilt, where there is a huge difference between what the people say and actually feel.
Read moreCLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL
The play opens in an asylum where Zelda Fitzgerald is being treated for mental disorder. Her husband, Scott, visits her, and this leads to a series of flashbacks in which details of their lives, in particular those concerning Zelda’s attempts to achieve self-expression, are enacted.
Read moreCLÔTURE DE L’AMOUR
A man and a woman look back on their wrecked relationship. They believed in eternal love, but now it is finally over and verbal executions fly through the air in two relentless monologues. First him, then her and neither of them pull any punches when love is measured and the…
Read moreCLOUDS
This play takes place in Cuba. The decoration consists of: One blue sky, a table and six chairs. Here two British writers meet, Maria and Owen as they have both come to report on life on the island after the revolution. As it turns out, they come from two rivalling…
Read moreCLOUDSTREET
3 Acts / 20M, 17F / Possible doubling / 3 parts A sprawling stage adaptation of Tim Winton’s enormously successful novel of the same name. A huge success at the 1998 Sydney & Perth festivals, the story follows the fluctuating fortunes of two families who inhabit a rambling old house…
Read moreCLUB, THE
The play contains songs from the period of 1894-1905 arranged by Alexandra Ivanoff. Members of a stuffy, all-male club, circa 1905, tap dance and sing fourteen songs of the era, all indicative of male smugness and superiority. During the final, the audience discovers that the top hats, white ties and…
Read moreCLYBOURNE PARK
A Pulitzer and Laurence Olivier award winning comedy, which takes place in Chicago in the beginning of the 1950’s. A white married couple are about to sell their house to a black family, but the neighbors aren’t keen on the idea in fear of that black people in their white…
Read moreCOAST OF UTOPIA; THE: VOYAGE, SHIPWRECK, SALVAGE
THE COAST OF UTOPIA consists of three successive plays, each of which is an independent play; VOYAGE, SHIPWRECK, SALVAGE. The trilogy is an epic of romanticists and revolutionaries caught in the fight for political freedom in a Russian imperial era. Set in the middle of 18th century Russia and Europe,…
Read moreCOCADOODLE DANDY
This is a jolly and bizarre saga in modern times with a gallery of characters and props which Yeats, Synge and O´Casey consider typically Irish. The story is described with the bitter irony of love and with a pungent satirical grip, a bunch of people which succumb to superstition and…
Read moreCOCKTAIL HOUR, THE
The time is the mid 70s, the place a city in upstate New York. John, a playwright, returns to his family’s house, bringing with him a new play which he has written about them. His purpose is to obtain their permission to proceed with production, but his wealthy, very proper…
Read moreCOCKTAILS AND TRAVAILS
Greg has arranged a quiet cocktail party with his wife, Emily, and his stuffy colleague, Professor Stilton. A perfect evening could mean Greg achieves tenure at the college. But when Professor Stilton arrives, Emily and the hors d’oeuvres are missing, Greg’s mother-in-law insists on crashing the party, and Greg’s deadbeat…
Read moreCOCONUT – BRUN UDENPÅ, HVID INDENI
An intelligent satire, which sheds light on the right-wing parties’ fear of immigrants against the left-wing’s desperate confusion about not having a stand that matches the debate on integration. Nadir, both an immigrant and politician, steps forward saying that ‘the foreigners’ are self-inflicted losers. With that, Nadir’s political career looks…
Read moreCOLD STORAGE
An investment advisor in fine art encounters an Armenian fruit and vegetable merchant in the roof garden of a New York hospital. Through intensive probing, the cancer-stricken Armenian unravels the paralyzing truth about his companion – the price he paid to survive the Holocaust.
Read moreCOLDER THAN HERE
Almost at the same time the first two plays of Laura Wade premiered at Soho Theatre and Royal Court. She became one of the most discussed and acclaimed debutants in London: Myra suffers from cancer in the terminal stage and insists on arranging her own economically correct funeral. But can…
Read moreCOLIC
Aisling and Matt are exhausted by their infant’s colic and plagued by doubts of everything: Relationship status, love, sex, life and death. For the couple, who is struggling to keep their sanity, the last thing they need is the entrance of their friend Tom, who has just come out of…
Read moreCOLLABORATORS (JOHN HODGE)
Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he’s offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Inspired…
Read moreCOLLABORATORS (JOHN MORTIMER)
2 F / 2 M Comedy in two acts 1 Set A film producer arrives at the Winter family to get a close study of family life. He wishes to persuade the man of the house – a rather unsuccessful lawyer with scribbling as extra jobs – to write a…
Read moreCOLLAPSIBLE
Essie’s lost her job. Her girlfriend’s left. But she’s alright. Except lately she feels more like a chair than a person. One of those folding chairs. Solid one minute, but the next… Now Essie is on the lookout for a new job, but as she cannot sense herself anymore, she…
Read moreCOLLECTED STORIES
This play revolves around the established Jewish author, Ruth Steiner, who teaches Creative Writing at a university. One of her new students is the young author Lisa Morrison, who eventually becomes her assistant and apprentice and over the next couple of years they become confidants. At least that is how…
Read moreCOLLECTION, THE
As in so many other Pinter plays, this one has got a homosexual theme as well. One is introduced to Harry, a well-off middle-aged fashion designer, who lives with his colleague Bill, twenty years his junior. And in this play, Pinter’s unwelcome stranger is their thus far unknown neighbour, James…
Read moreCOLLEGE COLORS
This four character play follows a pair of black and white male roommates entering college in the 1960, juxtaposed with a pair of black and white female roommates in 2016.
Read moreCOLLIER’S FRIDAY NIGHT, A
5 F / 4 M 1 Set Lawrence’s first play written in November 1906. The whole play takes place in one room, the hot living-room / kitchen where all the life of the family is concentrated. Ernest comes home from college for the weekend. He needs yet more books his…
Read moreCOLLISION
CRITICS’ CHOICE –”Tough social analysis meets sexual politics in Leyton’s lurid debut […] He deserves an Oscar.” was Time Out’s comment about Dominic Leyton’s debut play – one of the best reviewed British plays for a long time. The recipe is thus: use equal parts of comedy, thriller and Tarantino.…
Read moreCOMBAT DE NÈGRE ET DE CHIENS
Set in a remote corner of Africa, Battle of Black and Dogs (Combat de Négre et de chiens) is a politically, sexually, and culturally charged tale of psychological warfare that erupts at an isolated construction compound. When a hired man mysteriously dies, his brother arrives at the compound to collect…
Read moreCOMBUSTION
An award winning British debut play about nationalism, racism and young Muslims in Europe today. The action takes place in an English provincial town during the Ramadan. Racists plan to march through the city, while Shaz, a local garage mechanic, desperately tries to keep his business running smoothly so he…
Read moreCOME AND GO
This is another ambiguous “anti drama” by Beckett. A fast attempt of describing the fleeting atmosphere of the meaninglessness and brevity of life.
Read moreCOME BACK TO THE 5 AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN
8 F / 1 M In a small-town dime store in West Texas, the Disciples of James Dean gather for their twentieth reunion. Now middle-aged women, they were teenagers when Dean filmed Giant two decades ago in nearby Marfa. One of them, an extra in the film, has a child…
Read moreCOMEDIANS
In the north of England, a retired comic teaches a night class for aspiring comedians. The first act portrays the students working up their acts; the second, their actual presentations; and in the final act it is seen that those who catered to the crass, philistine views of the agent…
Read moreCOMIC POTENTIAL
This is a futuristic fantasy mirroring present time. It portrays the production of soap series for TV, where the latest trend is melodramatic template storylines that are performed by specially programmed robots called ‘actoider’. During the recordings to a doctors-and-nurses series, the young and hopeful author, Adam is watching. Shortly,…
Read moreCOMING HOME
Veronika Jonkers left her beloved grandfather’s farm to pursue her dream of a singing career in Cape Town. Carrying a painful secret and a heart filled with disappointment, she returns after his death and strives to plant the seeds of a new life for her young son. In this stunning…
Read moreCOMME AU THÉÂTRE
An original and charming French comedy about a facetious game with a woman’s illusion of the hero of her life. Light, spiritual and intelligent.
Read moreCOMME S’IL EN PLEUVAIT
Bruno and Laurence find a banknote in their living room one evening. New banknotes appear daily and in larger quantities. It is as if it rains money. Where does the money come from, and what have they done to deserve it? This sudden wealth is it a possibility or a…
Read moreCOMMON PEOPLE
Variable cast. Most whistleblowers are not world-renowned like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange or Chelsea Manning. They are people like you and me, who at some point in their lives see something that is terribly wrong and decide to intervene. They are not Superman or Batman, but citizens who find themselves…
Read moreCOMMUNICATION CORD, THE
The setting of the farce is a remote Donegal peasant cottage which has been converted into a weekend retreat for members of the urban elite. The traditional elements of the genre combine with a satiric vision to produce a result which is at once hilarious and biting.
Read moreCOMPETITIVE TENDERNESS
An hilarious contemporary farce. In the competetive, fast lane of Australian politics, the City of Greater Burke is in the frontline of local government reform. Striving to become a model of leaner and meaner bureaucracy, the city is rationalising at an irrational speed. Driving the push for competition is the…
Read moreCOMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE
Three American comedians have created this high paced and most hilarious account of the complete works of Shakespeare – though highly abridged.
Read moreCOMPLEXITY OF BELONGING
A powerful, darkly humorous exploration of identity in the age of social media, Complexity of Belonging peers into the lives of nine interconnected individuals as they grapple with the question: how and where do I belong? Nationality, gender, sexuality and history collide and fragment in this audacious, theatrical exposé into…
Read moreCONFUSIONS
This play is actually a set of five interlinked one-act plays. Each play deals riotously, but with sharply pointed undertones, with human eccentricities and the human dilemma of loneliness; a mother unable to escape from baby talk, a disastrous fete, an unsuccessful seduction attempt, a fate-fraught dinner encounter- and the…
Read moreCONSTANT WIFE, THE
This brilliant comedy of modern English life is a sophisticated play based on the idea that so long as a wife is supported by her husband it is up to her to be faithful to him, but if the husband is not faithful to her and if she supports herself…
Read moreCONSTELLATIONS
Marianne and Roland meet, have sex, do not have sex, get together, break up and meet again. He is a beekeeper, and she is an astrophysicist with an understanding of string theories and parallel universes. Payne focuses on the key moments in their relationship, which are stretched out and pulled…
Read moreCONTES EROTIQUES ARABES DU MOYEN AGE
The plays is a small family drama centered around a man’s funeral . There are the tensions that might be expected at any such family gathering, and the efforts of coming to terms with past, present, and future.
Read moreCONTRA EL PROGRÉS / AGAINST PROGRESS
Against progress 7 moments as distant as they are close, 7 surreal and striking visions of a progress that does not advance, a progress that despises us, the same progress as always.
Read moreCONTRA L’AMOR / AGAINST LOVE
7 burlesque and forceful visions of an emotion as inexcusable as it is manipulated, which presumably redeems our society of its great evils as it destabilises and fuels hypocrisy among everyone.
Read moreCONVERSACIONES CON MAMA
Jordi Galceran is behind the ingenious drama EL MÉTODE GRÖNHOLM, which has been performed several times around the world. This is his wonderful adaption of Argentinean Santiago Carlos Oves’ affectionate and award winning comedy CONVERSACIONES CON MAMA from 2004. The 55-year-old son Jaime has provided a flat for his 82-year-old…
Read moreCONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER
2 F / 8 M This play concerns a Russian/Jewish family father, who clings to the hope of ‘The American Dream’. It is a most compelling play, in a time when many people seek abroad to start afresh.
Read moreCOOKING WITH ELVIS
In this comedy one is introduced to Jill who is 14 years old and obsessed with food; not only with eating it but also the cooking part of it. Her Mother is anorexic as well as alcoholic and furthermore she always brings home young men for sex, among others, the…
Read moreCOPENHAGEN
In the autumn of 1941, the German nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg sought out his colleague and mentor, Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. Earlier on, in the 1920’ies, they had collaborated closely and almost had a father-son relationship. However, there is no evidence as to what lay behind this last meeting and…
Read moreCOPPIA APERTA, QUASI SPALANCATA
After having been suicidal for years due to the adultery of her husband, the fiery tempered Antonia agrees to change their marriage into an open relationship. In the beginning, her husband enjoys his new freedom to explore, but eventually Antonia starts dating herself, and soon the she’s the one with…
Read moreCORE
One night in an apartment in city four young people meet. One of them has brought a love drug called core, which he offers the others. Soon after a drama takes place between the four and the night turns out to have fatale consequences. The four are all desperately seeking…
Read moreCOSI
The play is set in a mental institution in 1970. A young director, Lewis, is about to make his first production. The only problem is that the players are insane. They want to do an opera, even though there is no orchestra and no one can sing. One of the…
Read moreCOSMONAUT’S LAST MESSAGE TO THE WOMAN HE ONCE LOVED IN THE FORMER SOVJET UNION, THE
This play brings several stories together: Two forgotten Soviet cosmonauts orbit a world that cannot hear them; A Scottish civil servant, in the throes of a midlife crisis, takes a brave step into the unknown; A Norwegian peace negotiator scours the world to retrieve the tape of his Russian girlfriend’s…
Read moreCOUGAR THE MUSICAL
COUGAR THE MUSICAL unleashes three divine but disillusioned women who develop a taste for hot, young men. They let their inner cougar roar and purr, finding self-love and empowerment in the process. The sexy, ferocious cast of three fabulous-over-forty women and one multi-talented boy toy sing and dance their way…
Read moreCOUNTRY GIRL, THE
A drama about an alcoholic and disillusioned actor who makes a comeback with the help from his wife and a young stage manager who believes in him, and encourages him – which – resultsing in victory. Two great roles for two great actors.
Read moreCOUNTRY, THE
This is a highly unpredictable and psychological thriller that revolves around Corinne and Richard, a wealthy young married couple that have left London, in order to start afresh in the countryside. He is a doctor and discreetly it is indicated that he is a former heroin addict and that he…
Read moreCOUP DE SOLEIL
A passionate and vivacious lady in her 40s becomes bored with her regular lover and falls madly in love with a dashing young florist. When her son returns home with an older woman he wishes to marry, she is clearly not in approval but hardly in a position to criticize.…
Read moreCOUPURES
Tonight, no one in the audience understands a thing. How could Frédéric, an ecologist mayor, farmer, young father, committed dreamer, recycler, cycle path and unplugged music festival… in short, how could Frédéric have decided alone, and in secret, to deploy the latest generation of relay antennas throughout the town? Coupures…
Read moreCOWBOY, COWBOY
A play of parody with set phrases of the genre of the spaghetti western with a surprising addition of a “Greek Chorus”. Jack, the man who is feared by everyone appears in a western saloon bar owned by Bud. He shoots Bud’s wife because she has taken his place at…
Read moreCOWGIRLS
A sort of sing-along country comedy in 2 acts set somewhere far away from the capital city. The action takes place in a hairdressing salon with two employees. One lives in an abusive marriage she can’t escape, the other in a lonely single life she can’t escape. One day, a…
Read moreCRAVE
This play offers no defined situation but revolves around 4 characters, who express a disintegration of the human soul due to the pressure of love, loss and lust in a universe similar to those of Beckett.
Read moreCRAZY FOR YOU
This latest musical from the Gershwin brothers is a classical American show, made from the two main ingredients: Love and Music. We follow a young man, whose Father is a rich banker, when he is sent to a musical theatre to close it down. Though despite the plans, he falls…
Read moreCRAZY GARY’S MOBILE DISCO
This is a tragic though fun trio of monologues about three desperate blokes on a Thursday night in a Welsh suburban nowhere; the borderline psychotic Gary whose mobile disco at the local pub, has been replaced by a karaoke system; the crooner and karaoke singer Matthew D. Melody, who has…
Read moreCREDOINUNSOLODIO
An Israeli professor of Jewish History, the Palestinian student Shirin Akhras and the American soldier Mina Wilkinson. Each of them speak a different language, each of them is leading their own life, each completely different from the other. In the great labyrinth of the Holy Land, chance will tragically connect…
Read moreCREEPER, THE
An enthralling psychological thriller set in the mid-sixties, THE CREEPER begins as a young salesman arrives at the house of a prosperous eccentric Edward Kimberly, in answer to an advertisement for a gentleman’s companion. What follows is a compelling story of elegance, wit and tightening menace. Billed as tense, compelling…
Read moreCRIMES OF THE HEART
The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who…
Read moreCRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, THE
4 F / 5 M This play takes place on a little island just off the shore of Ireland. Very much to the point and most touchingly it describes a minimalist community, where news is rare and therefore rarely believed though where also dreams and expectations thrive extremely well. The…
Read moreCROCODILE FEVER
Northern Ireland, 1989. A farmhouse window smashes, and rebellious Fianna Devlin crashes back into the life of her pious sister Alannah. Together in the unlovely family home for the first time in years, the sisters are back at each other’s throats in seconds. And when they are forced to confront…
Read moreCROQUE-MONSIEUR
Four of the beautiful and wealthy widow Coco’s previous husbands have either died mysteriously or disappeared. At the beginning of the play, we learn that this has now happened to a fifth as well. Coco must find a new husband as soon as possible in order to keep up her…
Read moreCROSSWORD PUZZLE PLAY
The Puzzlemaker is holding a workshop to teach you to make a crossword puzzle! As the Puzzlemaker embarks on their creation, they reveal the tricks of the trade, but also something unexpected: there is power in puzzles. Will the Puzzlemaker use their powers for good–or evil? And which choice means…
Read moreCROW
This is the tale of an aboriginal woman nicknamed Crow. She has been fighting the government for years to win back a tin mine which is rightfully hers. Mercurial, stubborn, sexy and irreverent, she never gives in even if at times she is her own worst enemy. Set in 1942…
Read moreCRUCIBLE, THE
Set in the 17th century, this exciting drama mirrors the communist “witch-hunts” of McCarthyism in 50s America. A fascinating and disturbing dramatization of the collective psychology of persecution it shows all too painfully how even a close-knit rural community can be desolated once doubt and suspicion take hold.
Read moreCRUEL AND TENDER
Fascinated by Sophocles’ tragedy “The Trachiniae”, the famous Swiss director Luc Bondy encouraged the British dramatist Martin Crimp to transpose the antique piece into a modern story about marriage, violence and war in a world of political hypocrisy and emotional terrorism. This has resulted in a modern tragedy about love…
Read moreCRYPTOGRAM, THE
1 F / 1 M / 1 Boy Drama A young boy, John, comes downstairs to tell about his upcoming trip with his dad to the family friend, Dell. Mother, Donnie, is in the kitchen making tea. Soon the three are discussing the excitement of the trip, why John can’t…
Read moreCRYSTAL CLEAR
Set in an attic flat in London in the early 80’s. Richard, suffering from extreme diabetes and the breakdown of his relationship with Jane, meets Thomasina, blind from birth. They fall in love and Richard loses his sight.
Read moreCUDDLES
The 13-year-old vampire, Eve, does everything a good little vampire girl should. She stays inside, she stays away from her sister’s neck, and she sticks to the set of rules the older sister, Tabby, has made for her. No one but Tabby knows of her existence and Eve’s fairytale vision…
Read moreCÜNT PI
An actress with an absent boyfriend, a teenager doing his thesis on pornography, an au pair with a night to spare and a famous thinker with sex on the brain meet randomly in the bosom of a paradox: a cool bar in Canberra. Two conversations straddle each other and four…
Read moreCURTAINS
This musical is a send-up of backstage murder mystery plots, set in 1959 Boston, Massachusetts and follows the fallout when the supremely untalented star of Robbin’ Hood of the Old West is murdered during her opening night curtain call. Can a police detective who moonlights as a musical theater fan…
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