Abi Morgan
Abi Morgan (1968) is a BAFTA and EMMA award-winning Welsh playwright and TV / film writer studying drama and literature at Exeter University and later taking a postgraduate writing course at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Her work has been performed at some of the most important British theaters and…
Read moreABIDE WITH ME
With unhistrionic force this play captures a sense of life down in Lewisham where unemployment is running rife and demoralisingly among the bored young. It is not a grim play though the final implications are chilling. There is a raw and crude humour in the situation and language of these…
Read moreABIGAIL’S PARTY
A brilliant satire about middle-class English consumerism and appearances, with Alison Steadman’s frightening performance as a frantic woman trying to orchestrate an important dinner party, which is interrupted by her husband’s untimely heart attack.
Read moreABRAHAMS BARN
Judaism, Christianity and Islam all claim Abraham as their ancestor, but is it not really the same story told in three different ways? Coexistence between the children of Abraham has been contentious, but the history of Jews, Christians and Muslims in Europe is much more than a conflict. It is…
Read moreABSENCE OF WAR, THE
After a long period of turmoil, the Leader’s office has imposed an uneasy period of calm on the Labour Party. But the leader, George Jones, knows he has only one chance of power. The third part of a trilogy of plays about British institutions, The Absence of War offers an…
Read moreABSENT FRIENDS
Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancée so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him. Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and Evelyn, and…
Read moreABSOLUTE HELL
Rodney Ackland stopped writing for several years after The Pink Room in 1951, which was the first version of Absolute Hell. It opened to such cruelly damning press notices that it closed after a handful of performances and Ackland’s confidence as a writer was shattered. He dared to suggest that…
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3 F / 3 M Musical for kids 2 Sets This is a musical for kids, about the princess that would not laugh.
Read moreABSURD PERSON SINGULAR
Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. The “lower-class” but very much up-and-coming Hopcrofts are in their bright new, gadget-filled kitchen anxiously giving a little party for their bank manager and his wife and an architect neighbor. Next there are the architect…
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A rebellious play, staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1970, with psyched-out language revolving around sex, drugs, media and technology. Very 60s!
Read moreACCADDE DOMANI
“ACCADDE DOMANI” (part of the collection “Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo” which helped rendering Dario Fo the 1997 Nobel Prize in literature) portrays Irmgard Moeller, a German terrorist and member of the RAF (Red Army Faction) who was sentenced to 22 years in jail for bombing and killing three…
Read moreACCENT ON YOUTH
This play focuses on a romance from May to December. Herbert Marshall (46 years old at the time) is a successful middle-aged playwright; Constance Cummings is his young secretary, who prefers the company of mature men. She sets her cap on marrying the playwright, while he fends off her attentions.…
Read moreACCORDING TO THE CHORUS
Life is full of angst in the basement quick change room of a long-running Broadway show that may be on its last legs, and the women of the chorus are at war with the wardrobe department. Will the new dresser, with her own sad past and uncertain future, be able…
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In St. Louis in 1952, a troubled 10-year-old boy named Danny Lucas, whose mother Elizabeth has been hospitalized for a nervous condition, is placed in foster care in the home of Edward and Louise Milligan. As a boy who grew up knowing nothing of his father, who according to Elizabeth…
Read moreACTE SANS PAROLES (ACT WITHOUT WORDS) II
In the first, a man enters a bare stage soon populated with inanimate objects that begin to tantalize him. In the second act, prodded into “life” two men emerge from sacks. The sacks are transposed at the end- each man having gone through his daily routine in the interim.
Read moreACTE SANS PAROLES (ACT WITHOUT WORDS) I
Act Without Words I is a short symbolic mime play by Samuel Beckett. The action takes place in a desert illuminated by a dazzling light, where a man is flung backwards on stage and presented for different objects…
Read moreACTS OF LIFE
The Acts of Life is a multi-generational story about love and life. Presented in a series of metaphors, we watch as members of a family are born and grow; each experiencing the familiar moments in life that seem to be universal.
Read moreAd de Bont
Ad de Bont was born on 9 May 1949. In 1972 he graduated as a drama teacher and went on to study at the Cabaret Academy in Amsterdam. In 1975, after spending a few years in the classroom, he began working as an actor, director and writer for young people’s…
Read moreADAM AND EVE ON A FERRY
The text is about an unhappy woman who goes to see the great author D.H. Lawrence (one of William’s favourites) in the French Alps. She wants his help in order to overcome a passionate meeting which has become an obsession. Wildly ecstatic, the lovesick woman decides to return to San…
Read moreADAM GEIST
ADAM GEIST is a tale of suffering about a simple young man, who tries to do good, but looses everything in his procession. After the death of his mother Adam seeks comfort and advice from junkies, foreign legionnaires and mercenary soldiers, but when his only friend dies, he answers back…
Read moreAdam Price
Adam Price (born 1967) is a Danish scriptwriter, playwright and food critic. He studied law at The University of Copenhagen between 1986-1990. He has written several satire and drama series for the television and was editor in chief at TV 2’s drama department between 2001-2005. He has written a number…
Read moreAdam Rapp
Adam Rapp is a novelist, filmmaker, playwright and director. In 2006, he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his play Red Light Winter. His other plays include Bingo with the Indians, Kindness, American Sligo, Nocturne, Blackbird, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Finer Noble Gases, Essential Self Defense, Trueblinka,…
Read moreADIEU MONSIEUR HAFFMANN
Molière 2018 Meilleur Spectacle de Théâtre privé & Molière 2018 Auteur francophone vivant Paris, 1942. The Jews are ordered to wear a yellow star. Joseph Haffmann proposes a deal to Pierre Vigneau his employee : he’ll entrust his jewelry shop to him if Pierre accepts hiding him until the situation…
Read moreADMISSIONS
Sherri is Head of Admissions at a private school, a liberal who is fighting to diversify the student intake and a mother who wants the best for her son. When her son is deferred from his university of choice, and his best friend – who ‘ticks more boxes’ – is…
Read moreAdolph Green
Adolph Green (1914 – 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals: ”Singin’ in the Rain”, Say, Darling”, ”The Will Rogers Follies”, ”Applause”, ”Do Re Mi” and many more.
Read moreADRENALIN…HEART
Georgia Fitch’s debut play ADRENALIN…HEART is a fascinating story about love, dependence and abuse. In a series of short scenes we follow the beginning and the end of a fateful relationship between a single mother, Leigh, and a dealer, Angel. The play masterly shows an obsessing love with the same…
Read moreAdrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell was born in London and studied at Oxford University where he passed most of his time learning to write poems. After leaving University, Adrian spent several years as a journalist and his great claim to fame is that he was the first reporter on a national paper to…
Read moreADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO, THE
Carlo Collodi’s classic story has enchanted readers of all ages since it was first published in 1881/83. It is the story about Geppetto the puppeteer who wants a son so badly. One night, as he is sleeping, the good fairy appears and awakens his beloved wooden doll Pinocchio, and he…
Read moreADVICE TO IRAQI WOMEN
A noticeable and satirical text, published in The Guardian march 20th 2003, and produced at The Royal Court. As the title says, this is a series of advice to Iraqi women, to warn them of the danger their children are in. These instructions are delivered in a manner which resembles…
Read moreAESOP’S FABLES
The captive Aesop must go to almighty Zeus to gain his liberty, learning from the animals as he goes. Aesop sets out on his long journey and finds that, as he observes the creatures he meets and learns from their example, the links in his chains gradually drop off. Once…
Read moreAFFE DES STRANDFOTOGRAFEN, DER
Once upon a time there was a beach photographer, who bought himself a monkey to make people laugh on the pictures, because they always bought the pictures with smiles on them. One day the monkey couldn’t make people laugh anymore, so the photographer gave the monkey alcohol and some white…
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A man is thrown out of civilization. He sees red, but he doesn’t hit back…
Read moreAFORE NIGHT COME
The harvest is ripe in a Black Country pear orchard, seasoned hands settle to familiar tasks and the ritual education of newcomers. But corrupted land yields a bitter crop. The weather turns, friction mounts and pesticide begins to fall. First produced by the RSC in 1962, Afore Night Come is…
Read moreAFRICAN COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III, THE
Earning their bread with satires of white high society, the African Company came to be known for debunking the sacred status of the English classics (which many politically and racially motivated critics said were beyond the scope of black actors). Inside the Company’s ranks, similar debates raged about whether to…
Read moreAFTER DINNER
2 Acts / 2M, 3F / late 20s or early 30s A black comedy about being single and eating in restaurants. Five people converge on a suburban nightspot to enjoy their meal and the after dinner entertainment. A bitter sweet farce about human vulnerability. Published Currency Press 1988
Read moreAFTER HAGGERTY
Soon after moving into the flat he has rented from Haggerty, Bernard is faced with the arrival of Claire. For Claire, Bernard’s unexpected presence is part of the aftermath of Haggerty, like her baby son and her bitter memories. For Bernard (with two failed marriages behind him), Claire’s presence mirrors…
Read moreAFTER MAGRITTE
Harris, his mother and his wife are a kooky trio. Enter the forceful inspector from Scotland Yard with his constable – which is strange, notes the wife, for she had ordered an ambulance. The officers proceed to place the three under arrest. It is not clear why; something about a…
Read moreAFTER MISS JULIE
The story in Marber’s version of Strindberg’s ”Fröken Julie” takes place in a country house in England, July 1945. The British Labour won the election, and the celebration has commenced. Tipsy upper class daughter Miss Julie enters the servants’ kitchen to look for the father’s chauffer John. A passionate midsummer…
Read moreAFTER THE DANCE
Set in the Mayfair flat of a high-living, hard-drinking, successful writer, David, the play turns on his involvement with two women, his wife Joan and an earnest minded younger woman, Helen. Joan commits suicide. David considers following her but instead returns to a life of parties and drinking. A magnificent…
Read moreAFTER THE FALL
Miller returned to stage in 1964 after a nine-year absence with the play AFTER THE FALL, a strongly autobiographical work, which dealt with the questions of guilt and innocence. Many critics consider that Maggie, the self-destructive central character in the play, was modelled on Monroe, though Miller denied this. This…
Read moreAFTER THE LIONS
Set in France during the First World War, After the Lions takes as its subject the legendary Sarah Bernhardt, portrayed here towards the end of her illustrious career. “She wants to go on acting “ remonstrates her secretary Pitou, “Why? Hasn’t she had enough applause, fame, lovers? She wants to…
Read moreAFTERMATH, THE
The story of workers who have undergone a long and successful strike. A friendship is formed on the picket line but is put under pressure when it becomes clear that their struggle is far from over.
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In this play, Friel has put together two of Tjekov’s suffering characters; Andrei, the mediocre brother from THREE SISTERS and Vanja’s niece, Sonya from UNCLE VANJA. 20 years after the endings of the original works, the two are placed in the same café somewhere in Moskow and that is the…
Read moreAgatha Christie
Born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay, England, Agatha Christie published her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, and went on to become one of the most famous writers in history. She sold billions of copies of her work, and was also a noted playwright and romance author.…
Read moreAGE DE MONSIEUR EST AVANCÉ, LE
An author, an actress and a stage manager star in this plotless story about the preparation of a new play. Scenes of the audience are inserted to move along this story within a story.
Read moreAGENT BERND ETZEL
One day the married couple, Heinz and Hilde Gellert, get a visit from a certain Mr. Bernd Etzel. Suddenly their life changes. While drunk driving Heniz has hit Bernd by accident and now Bernd demands that he and Hilde get him back on his feet or pay the hospital expenses…
Read moreAgnar Mykle
Agnar Mykle (1915-1994) was a Norwegian author and one of the steadiest stylists in modern Norwegian writing with a combination of lyrical prose and a realism rich in words.
Read moreAgnès Jaoui
Agnès Jaoui (b. 1964) is a French screenwriter, film director, actress and singer of Tunisian Jewish descent. She frequently works in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri. Her screenplays include: Smoking/No Smoking (1993), Cuisine et dépendances (1993), Un air de famille (1996), On connaît la chanson (1997), The Taste of…
Read moreAGNES OF GOD
Doctor Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is asked to determine the sanity of a young nun accused of murdering her own baby. Mariam Ruth, the Mother Superior, seems bent on protecting Sister Agnes from the doctor, and Livingstone’s suspicions are immediately aroused. In searching for solutions to various mysteries (Who killed…
Read moreAIRPORT
Airport is an exploration of identity and language set in the glossy world of international travel.
Read moreAJAX
In Fassbinder’s version of AJAX the hero isn’t ridiculous but rather tragically. A strong musical version of Sophocle’s tragedy.
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Ensemble: Captain of soldiers, soldiers, attendants, young artists, tributaries, first stonemason, second stonemason, peasants.
Read moreAki Kaurismäki
Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (b. 1957) is a Finish film director. He had his debut in 1981 and attracted a lot of attention with his disrespectful screen version of the Dostoyevsky novel “Crime and Punishment “(1983). In the following years he has directed a number of films and is known for…
Read moreAksel Erhardsen
Aksel Erhardsen (born 1927) en a popular Danish actor and director trained at Odense Theatre School 1953 – 1955. He has worked at all major Danish theatres as well playing in several films and television productions.
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Ellen is the executive psychiatrist at a hospital, a well educated middle-aged woman with a father fixation and a little experience of love. Jim is a nurse, recently divorced and obsessed with music. Irene has been in hospital because of a depression. Tage is also hospitalized but with signs of…
Read moreAl Dubin
In tandem with composer Harry Warren, lyricist Al Dubin enjoyed a remarkable run of hits throughout the 1930s, authoring standards like “We’re in the Money,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” and “Lullaby of Broadway.” Alexander Dubin was born June 10, 1891, in Zurich, Switzerland, but raised primarily in Philadelphia,…
Read moreALADDIN
Sebastian’s musicalversion of the famous story about Aladdins adventures, where he meets the spirit of the lamp, who can bring him to whereever he wants and give him all the treasures of the world. But the good things do not always come without problems. Additional music by Morten Kærså, better…
Read moreAlan Ayckbourn
English playwright and artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, England, from 1970. His abundant output, characterized by comic dialogue and teasing experiments in dramatic structure, includes RELATIVELY SPEAKING (1967), ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR (1973), THE NORMAN CONQUESTS (1974; a trilogy), JOKING APART (1979), INTIMATE EXCHANGES (1982), A WOMAN IN…
Read moreAlan Ball
Alan Ball grew up in Marietta, Georgia. He studied theatre at Florida State University focusing mostly on acting and scriptwriting. After his graduation, he moved to New York where he began working as art director on several trade magazines. In addition, his play FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS was…
Read moreAlan Bennett
English dramatist and screenwriter. His works treat, with macabre, gruesome comedy, such subjects as class, senility, illness, and death. They include the series of monologues for television TALKING HEADS (1987) and TALKING HEADS II (1998), and the play THE MADNESS OF GEORGE III (1991), made into the critically acclaimed film…
Read moreAlan Bleasdale
Alan Bleasdale (b. 1946) is an English television dramatist, best known for writing several social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people.
Read moreAlan Bowne
Alan Bowne (1945-1989) was an American playwright and author. He was a member of the New Dramatists. He wrote a number of plays including Beirut, Forty-Deuce, Sharon and Billy, and The Beany and Cecil Show, many of which are available from Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
Read moreAlan Harris
Alan Harris is a Welsh playwright. His work has been staged across the globe from London to Washington and Tokyo. In 2011 he set up Liveartshow, a company specialising in new theatre with music. The company staged MANGA SISTER, a contemporary dance opera, at The Yard, London and the same…
Read moreAlan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (1918 – 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world’s most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.…
Read moreAlan Menken
Alan Menken (b. 1949) is an American musical theatre and film composer and pianist.Menken is best known for his numerous scores for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, most notably, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas, all of which won him at least one Academy…
Read moreAlan Price
Alan Price (b. 1942) is a British musician, best known as the original keyboardist for the English band The Animals. He is also known for his solo work. Price is a self-taught musician and was a founding member of the Tyneside group The Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo, which…
Read moreAlan Shearman
Alan Shearman is an American actor, writer, director and playwright. His plays include Footlight Frenzy, Bullshot Crummond, El Grande Coca-Cola and The Scandalous Adventures of Sir Toby Trollope.
Read moreALARMS & EXCURSIONS
This play consists of 8 one acts, two longer ones and 6 short sketches. They are played by four actors – as characters in their 30’ies and 40’ies – forming two couples, at least most of the time. In ALARMS, a married couple visits another couple and slowly they are…
Read moreALASKA ROULETTE
Tora has been diagnosed with an incurable disease and so every one around her is preparing for the worst. However, after one year medical science has come up with a cure which means that people have to adapt to the fact that Tora will survive. A most gripping two-hander for…
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Albert has a degree in philosophy and with a job as bridge painter has a new perspective on life up high. Through CPA’s and programmed efficiency, he replaces four painters and the bridge is all his. He also has to get married – but that’s another story. He’s bothered by…
Read moreAlbert Camus
Albert Camus was born by French parents in Algeria in 1913, but moved to France in 1940, where he became active in the French resistance. It was here that he met the philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre. Camus and Sartre became two of the most prominent writers developing modern existential philosophy and…
Read moreAlbert Hackett
Albert Maurice Hackett (1900 – 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter most noted for his collaborations with his partner and wife Frances Goodrich. Not long after marrying Frances Goodrich, the couple went to Hollywood in the late 1920s to write the screenplay for their stage success Up Pops the…
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