ANOTHER AMERICA
A cross-country pilgrimage on bicycles from Venice, CA to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA. ANOTHER AMERICA is a free-wheeling portrait of the country itself as well as a journey of self discovery for two brothers and their best friend.“A finely crafted life-affirming generously spirited play.”—britishtheatre.com“Vivid writing! Everything…
Read moreANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST
Marcus Hubbard is a vicious man living in the Deep South who profited from the Civil War. He is also a mean father and husband. Then one son, Ben, finds out that Marcus was responsible for the death of Confederate troops and threatens to blow the whistle. This play begins…
Read moreANOTHER TIME
The same actor plays two characters: the adult Leonard Lands, a South African pianist, and Ike, Leonard’s father. In Act I, Leonard’s mother is finally able to send him overseas for a proper musical education after Ike dies. Act II takes place thirty-five years later. Leonard is in a London…
Read moreAnthony Burgess
1917-93, His novels are marked by a surreal, darkly comic imagination. Burgess is acknowledged to have been one of the most imaginative and experimental English prose stylists. His best-known work is A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1962), written in an imaginary teen slang and set in a classless, futuristic society, where an…
Read moreAnthony McCarten
Anthony McCarten, is a commercially successful playwright, also writing poetry and fiction. He was born in New Plymouth. His first play was INVITATION TO A SECOND CLASS CARRIAGE (Depot Theatre, Wellington, 1984). His next, YELLOW CANARY MAZURKA, was selected for the 1986 New Zealand Playwrights’ Workshop and premièred the following…
Read moreAnthony Newley
Anthony Newley was born Sep 24, 1931 London, Hackney, England. As a British entertainer Anthony Newley began as a child star, passing for 10 or 11 even as the Artful Dodger in OLIVER TWIST (1948), when in fact he was already of driving and shaving age. As a young leading…
Read moreAnthony Shaffer
The twin brother of equally celebrated playwright, Peter Shaffer, Anthony Shaffer’s name, despite his other achievements, inevitably evokes his famously twisty, two-hander, SLEUTH (1970), triumphant on Broadway as well as in London, and in 1972 turned into a successful film, from his own screenplay.
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”Was Antichrist my ”inferno-crisis”? My kinship with Strindberg?” Lars Von Trier asks himself after finishing the tale about a psychiatrist and his wife who mourn the tragic loss of their son. They retreat to an outlying cabin in the woods, “Eden”, in which she once wrote a thesis about the…
Read moreANTICHRIST (ANNIKA SILKEBERG / LARS VON TRIER)
“Antichrist” tells the story of a couple who, after the death of their child, retreat to a cabin in the woods hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse; the man experiences strange visions and the woman…
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This play takes place among the petite bourgeoisie and is a provoking opposition against the state of the world. With his fantastic imagery, Schwabs manages to touch directly on one’s innermost and deepest emotions, in a very intelligent manner. It is a bitter farce that encourages radical actions and at…
Read moreANTIGONE DER SOPHOKLES, DIE
Antigone, also known as The Antigone of Sophocles, is an adaptation by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of Hölderlin’s translation of Sophocles’ tragedy. Written in 1947, it was first performed at the Chur Stadttheater in Switzerland in 1948 with Helene Weigel in the lead role.
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In ANTIGONES HÄNDE Simon Werle brings the classical antique characters in a new lighting. The pledge is over. Oedipus has blinded himself; Kreon comes to see the day of light and overtakes the city. He occupies the temples and states that it’s the end of the priests and the oracles’…
Read moreAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
French aviator and writer, real life hero who looked at adventure and danger with poet’s eyes – sometimes from the viewpoint of a child. Saint-Exupéry’s most famous work is THE LITTLE PRINCE (1943), which he also illustrated. It has become one of the classics of children’s literature of the 20th…
Read moreAnton Tjekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 –1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.Chekhov…
Read moreAntonio Skármeta
Antonio Skármeta (b. 1940) is a Chilean writer. He is educated in literature and philosophy at Colombia University, New York, where after he settled down in Buenos Aires and then West Berlin. After the end of Pinochet’s military dictatorship in 1989, he returned to Chile in order to fight for…
Read moreANTONS STORE HJERTE
Anton’s heart is too big. His mother says it’s because he has so much love inside of him, but Anton knows that it can’t be the reason why he is breathless constantly and has to be hospitalised all the time: he needs a new heart. One night, Anton suddenly finds…
Read moreANY OTHER BUSINESS
The scene of this psychological thriller is the big executive suite of the business concern and of the sly men of industry, who act. In London the play is known for being as exciting as Agatha Christie.
Read moreANY WEDNESDAY
The president of a large corporation is using the executive suite to house his young mistress, whom he sees once a week. A young man who has sold his factory to the middle-aged romancer is upset to find it about to be closed for tax advantages. Directed to the suite…
Read moreANYONE FOR BREAKFAST
In this merry comedy of marital mishaps the’scene is set for an evening and morning of riotous misunderstandin’s and mistaken identities as the guilty parties in question try desperately to keep their romantic secrets secret! Your audience will be kept on a roar for two hours and at the end…
Read moreANYTHING GOES
The action in this musical takes place on board the luxurious cruise ship “S.S. American” en route to England from New York. On the ship we find the young and beautiful American heiress Hope Harcourt, her dressy fiancé Sir Evelyn Oakland and her Mother. Furthermore there is the Bishop Dobson…
Read moreAPART FROM GEORGE
George Sutton has forged a life tending and clearing the waterlogged Fenlands for a local landowner. When he loses his job, he searches in vain to find a purpose and a sense of self worth. The play is a dark, poetic exploration of the effects of unemployment on a family,…
Read moreAphra Behn
Aphra Behn stars in the canon of English literature as the first known English woman to earn her living by the pen. She is famous for her prose work OROONOKO (1688) and for her comic Restoration dramas such as THE ROVER (1681) and THE LUCKY CHANCE (1686). THE FORC’D MARRIAGE,…
Read moreAPOKALYPTISCHE SHOW VON DEN VIER FLÜSSEN MANHATTANS, DIE
The year is 2030. The poles have melted do to global warming; the water in New York is poised, only Manhattan has clean drinking water. 4 women have drank too much of the rationed water and are hold poisoned. Only a new recycle system can help them, but it’s expensive,…
Read moreAPPLAUSE
This musical goes behind the scene of show business and reveals all the ambitions, excitement, insecurity, loyalty or lack of it that belongs in the theatre world. The main character, Margo Channing befriends the admirer Eve Harrington, who instantly starts to pull wires in order to take over Margo’s position…
Read moreAPPOINTMENT WITH DEATH
An assorted group of travelers are staying at a Jerusalem hotel: Lady Westholme and her companion, a young English doctor and her French colleague, a debonair American and a pugnacious Lancashireman. Another guest, Mrs. Boynton, is a domineering American invalid with four stepchildren whose facade of devotion masks enough hatred…
Read moreARABIAN NIGHTS –LOVE OF KAMAR AND BUDUR, THE
ALF LAYLAH WA LAYLAH or 1001 NIGHT’S FAIRY TALES is the most heard of oriental work in the west. For centuries the learned looked down their noses at the inelegant style of the play and its mix of elevated and simple language. The first collection of the stories was written…
Read moreARABIAN NIGHTS (DOMINIC COOKE)
It is the wedding night at King Shahrayars palace. Though unlike other newly wedded brides, the new queen Sheherazade is to be killed at dawn just like her many predecessors at the palace. However, Sheherazade is an compelling storyteller, which may just be enough to save her. Because for one…
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This play moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition. As the Arcadian landscape is being transformed into picturesque Gothic gardens, complete with a hermitage, thirteen-year-old Lady Thomasina and her tutor delve…
Read moreARCANGELI NON GIOCANO A FLIPPER, GLI
This fast-moving play is one of Fo’s most accomplished farces and the first to combine political-satirical content in a Brechtian form that relies on paradoxical situations to make its point. Set in the industrial outskirts of Milan, it follows a group of louts and their butt, Lofty, a simple man…
Read moreARCHBISHOP’S CEILING, THE
A powerful and probing work exploring the dilemma of the creative artist in a totalitarian state. The play is set in a former Archbishop’s palace in an Eastern European capital within a room which has probably been bugged by the secret police. It examines the relationship between four writers, friends…
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This is a play about an architect, Leo Black, who used to be a great builder everyone spoke about. Now he designs parking places. His family is falling apart and his buildings are falling down. This leaves Leo in an existential struggle as he faces the gruesome reality of his…
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In this drama the author walks whole hog and lets two people strand on an island. Two diametrically opposite character’s, they comment on each other as well as they complement the statements of one another on hidden conceptions about how you should settle the estate of the one who dies…
Read moreARDIENTE PACIENCIA
Mario Jimenes is a young dreamer who delivers mail for the poet Pablo Neruda while Allende becomes the president of Chile. Mario falls head over heels in love with Beatriz, but she doesn’t notice the shy mailman until he pairs with Neruda and finds the words to win Beatriz’ heart.…
Read moreARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT
3 F / 11 M Elvis, who created songs which inspired millions of teenagers, remains the key figure on the memories of those who found a sense of purpose, hope and future then. His songs and the way he sang them stays with a generation – a reminder of the…
Read moreARE YOU READY FOR YOUR PHOTO, SYDNEY? (Alternative Title: 91% ARE HAPPY)
Gender and total number of actors can be changeable. “Sexy, sultry Sydney is a gold-medal city that glitters with sun-drenched attitude and seduces with beaches and bodies beautiful. Her Olympic-sized heart charmed the socks off the world during the 2000 Games and continues to beat with passion and pride. She…
Read moreARHETIP: MEDEJA ARCHETYP MEDEA (ARCHETYP: MEDEA)
The Archetype monologues Medea/Woman-Bomb/Europe function as three stories connected to contemporary Europe and neo-colonialism. All of them are written from a woman’s point of view. Medea is a well-known myth of woman who kills her children as revenge on her husband. In Medea, Ivana Sajko adds political implications – the…
Read moreAriel Dorfman
Chilensk forfatter, journalist og dramaturg. I sine analyser af massekulturen tog han ikke kun litterære metoder i brug, men også politisk analyse og sociologi. Dorfman var kulturel rådgiver for Salvador Allende regeringen i Chile. Han flygtede efter militærkuppet i 1973 og gik i eksil i Frankrig. Efterfølgende flyttede han til…
Read moreArild Brakstad
Arild Brakstad was born in Bergen, Norway in 1972. He still lives there. Currently he is touring Norway with his one man show. Arild Brakstad has a BSC of cultural science and has also studied theatre and philosophy. As a playwright he made headlines when creating the first black metal…
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In Brian Friel’s powerful drama, set in Ballybeg Hall the decaying home of retired District Justice O’Donnell, the O’Donnell children gather to celebrate a wedding but stay to attend a funeral. Suffused with loving humour, delicate irony and exquisite sadness, Friel’s story of three sisters and their eccentric brother explores…
Read moreArmelle Patron
Armelle and Emmanuel Patron form a duo, sister and brother, both script writers, Emmanuel is also an actor and Armelle a youth fiction writer. Their style is witty and their favourite subject is « families ». After several years of writing short series for television (Et toc, Scènes de ménage…
Read moreArne Skouen
Arne Skouen (1913 – 2003) was a Norwegian best known for his work as a film director and as a journalist. He was internationally famed for his 1957 film Ni Liv (Nine Lives). His first film was released in 1949, titled Gategutter (Street Boys). His 1959 film The Master and…
Read moreArnfinn Hagen
Arnfinn Hagen was born in Oslo in 1958. Since 1992-93, he has worked in Norsk Amatørteaterråd, later Norsk teaterråd and from 2019 Teateralliansen as a scriptconsultant/advisor at dramas.no. He translates into Norwegian from American, English, Swedish and Danish.
Read moreAROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Well-constructed and often performed American stage adaptation of Jules Verne’s remarkable classic about the daring Phileas Fogg, who puts his entire fortune on the line in a bet that it is possible to travel around the world in 80 days. Together with his faithful servant Passepartout, he embarks on a…
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Reza’s neighbour once bought a new painting, 1,60m x 1,20m, and paid 200.000 Francs for it. The canvas was completely white. And that is the starting point of this comedy about what art is or rather, can be, as well as about the three men inhabiting the stage; three city…
Read moreArthur Adamov
Russian-born French dramatist, one of the most prominent exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd. Adamov was born into a wealthy Armenian family in Kislovodsk; at the age of four he moved with his family to Germany. Having completed his education in Paris, he settled there in 1924 and became…
Read moreArthur Miller
Arthur Miller (1915-2005), two times Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. Considered to be one of the most important American playwrights of recent times. Recipient of countless awards and honors. During his studies at the University of Michigan, his interest in the Greek tragedy and Henrik Ibsen was…
Read moreArthur Whitelaw
Arthur Whitelaw began his career in show business fifty years ago. His first producing venture in the New York Theatre was the hit revival of BEST FOOT FORWARD which introduced Liza Minnelli and Christopher Walken to the stage. Whitelaw co-wrote the books for and directed SNOOPY and THE TAFFETAS. In…
Read moreArthur Wing Pinero
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 – 1934) was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director. In 1874 he joined R. H. Wyndham’s company at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh. After also acting in Liverpool, Pinero joined Henry Irving’s Lyceum Theatre company in London in 1876, where…
Read moreARTIST DESCENDING A STAIRCASE
This play exists both as radio play and a comic drama. In 1972 an elderly avant-garde artist is murdered, leaving his two friends suspecting each other. To reveal why, successive scenes flashback toward the 1920s and then progress back to 1972. Each of three was infatuated with Sophie. Before she…
Read moreARV OG MILJØ
NATURE AND NURTURE depicts a classic inheritance dispute using two cottages on a Norwegian island as a starting point. The dispute triggers strong forces, as dark secrets and memories of a torn childhood dominated by assault and neglect forces one daughter, Bergljot, to start a heartbreaking battle for the right…
Read moreARVEN
Christoffer was born into the Danish upper class as the fourth generation in a family which owns the biggest steel plant in the country. He lives in Stockholm and is happily married to Maria when his father suddenly commits suicide. Against Maria’s will, Christoffer succumbs to his mother’s pressure and…
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Two doctors, a mother and daughter. The mother is a respected, experienced medic at a pharmaceutical firm. She loses her position one day when she refuses to continue covering up an obvious deficiency in a medicament on behalf of the firm. Her daughter works in a hospital and specializes in…
Read moreAS IS
AS IS focuses on the effect AIDS, then a fairly new pandemic, has on a group of friends living in New York City.
Read moreASHES AND SAND
The play concerns a group of young women who, in order to survive in the big city, abide to violence, whilst carrying a most unrealistic dream of ‘getting’ enough money, to be able to go to Bali.
Read moreASHES TO ASHES
Devlin and Rebecca, a couple in their forties, are having a rather tense conversation because he demands her to answer his questions about one of her former lovers and their sadomasochistic relationship, where one of their rituals meant that she had to kiss his fists and then ask him to…
Read moreASKELADDEN OG DE GODE HJELPERNE
Askeladden is the most known character in Norwegian fairytales, and is featured in many tales. He is the son of poor smallholders, has two arrogant older brothers and is always set to manage the fire and dig in the ashes, thus the name Askeladden. (Aske = Ashes) However, he is…
Read moreASKELADDEN OG DE TRE PRINSESSER I BERGET DET BLÅ
”Once upon a time, there were three princesses who were never allowed to go outside because it had been foretold that if they went out before the youngest turned 15, the troll would come get them …”. This is how the fairy tale about the three beautiful princesses who were…
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This is a real Cinderella tale about the girl Mille who dreams of becoming a rock star, and her good friend Topper the rock’n’roll fairy, who comes to her rescue in the struggle against the evil family members. A musical in a GREASE-like environment, loaded with young love, rock music…
Read moreASKEPOT (VIVIAN NIELSEN)
Disney took away the ashes from Cinderella’s cheek and made the fairytale romantic and pink. In the brothers Grimm and Astrid Nielsen’s fairytale Cinderella’s way to the prince and half the kingdom is far more evil. This is the story about the young girl, who has to fight for love…
Read moreASKING STRANGERS THE MEANING OF LIFE
In the opening scene of this comedy, a writer meets the ghost of Franz Kafka, which sets off an existential chain of events forcing the cast to confront the meaning of life. Through a series of hilarious random encounters, the play questions whether we can understand our existence or is…
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