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William Saroyan
William Saroyan was an internationally renowned Armenian-American writer, playwright and humanitarian. His fame, and his most enduring achievements as a writer, date from the 1930’s. He dazzled, entertained and uplifted millions, with hundreds of short stories, plays, novels, memoirs and essays; they continue to charm and touch us today. Saroyan’s…
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a…
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Willis Hall
Willis Hall (1929 – 2005) was an English playwright and radio and television writer who drew on his working class Leeds roots in much of his material. His most famous creation was probably BILLY LIAR (1960), co-written with life-long friend and collaborator Keith Waterhouse. However, his rise to fame came…
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Willy Russell
William Russell (b.1947) is a British dramatist, lyricist, and composer. His best-known works are Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, and Blood Brothers.
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WIND ON THE MOON, THE
Escaping their lives in Manhattan, former college buddies Matt and Davis take off to the Netherlands and find themselves thrown into a bizarre love triangle with a beautiful young prostitute named Christina. But the romance they find in Europe is eventually overshadowed by the truth they discover at home. Written…
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WIND, DER
In his version of the adventures of Snow White and Red Riding Hood, Friedrich Karl Waechter focuses on only four voices. It is the story about the longing for love, jealousy and vindictiveness. Radio play.
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WINDOW, THE
This is a psychological study of a blind voyeur, who hires a male nurse to watch through binoculars the activities of the girl in the flat opposite who has driven him to attempt suicide.
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WINGS
This remarkable play confirms the terror and hope in the human drama. Emily Stilson, a former aviatrix and stunt pilot, suffers a stroke in her seventies and is plunged into a disoriented world. Her mind has short-circuited her contact with the outside world. The doctors seem to be speaking gibberish…
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WINTERREISE
Elfriede Jelinek follows in the footsteps of the wanderers from Franz Schubert’s famous song cycle “Winterreise”. Her “Winter’s Journey” begins with the insanity of the present day, touching on banking scandals and the plight of kidnapping victims before heading more clearly towards autobiographical territory: Jelinek’s complicated relationship with her mother…
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WINTERSET
“Winterset” intertwines the stories of three people struggling to escape their unhappy ties to a past crime. Written in a combination of prose and blank verse, the play develops a tragic love story at the same time as it explores thematic questions about the natures of both justice and death.
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WINTERSLAAP (WINTERSCHLAF)
Jaap sitting with his parents inside a cave and is not permitted to go out do not because his parents warn him against the dangers of the vicious world. But one day Jaap hears stories about how wonderful the world may be and his curiosity about the reality outside the…
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WIR IM FINALE
A polyphonic battle that follows a football match, with expert commentaries and live reports from the stadium. The voices on the national team are also a reflection on the nation’s situation. An intelligent metaphor for Germany at the beginning of the new millennium.
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WIR LIEBEN UND WISSEN NICHTS
Two couples meet for an apartment exchange. Hannah will spend some time in Zurich to teach Zen classes to stressed-out bank managers. Her boyfriend Sebastian is supposed to accompany her. During that time Roman, a computer scientist, is moving into their apartment; his professional interest is to observe a satellite…
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WIR VERKÄUFER
Set in a Swiss hotel in the mountains, a couple of ”Wessis” is holding a seminar where they’re going to turn six ”Ossis” into becoming smart businessmen capable of navigating in the Western consumer economy.
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WIR WERDEN WÖLFE SEIN
The theme has mythical greatness – it’s taken from the Old Norse Edda: it’s about power, life and death. In clear pictures we’re told about the power struggle between the gods and the giants, and the doomed love affair between the giant daughter Skaði and Odin’s son Balder.
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WIRE FENCES OF JARRABIN, THE (THE JARRABIN TRILOGY)
A trilogy about life in a country town in WA between 1920-1970, it tells the saga of shopkeepers, farmers, local drunks, the Bank Manager, a mad lay preacher, Aborigines and young lovers set against the changing fortunes of Jarrabin – flood, fire, war, racism, the rising salt, and an Aboriginal…
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WIRTIN, DIE
The inspiration here for Turrini, is Goldonis’ comedy ‘La Lovandiera’. And so this tragicomic play is a gruesome and bitter game about money, power and social differences.
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WISH LIST
Tamsin packs boxes in a warehouse, on the clock, with a zero-hour contract. Her brother Dean is housebound. Working to obsessive-compulsive rituals of his own. When Dean is declared fit for work and his benefits are cut, Tamsin must fight to get the support she and her brother so desperately…
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WIT
This Pulitzer Prize winning play, revolves around the acclaimed literary professor, Vivien Bearing who is suddenly diagnosed with incurable cancer. And so with all her intellectual might and merciless wit, for which she was feared in university circles, she sets herself up against the illness and the cocksureness of hospitals…
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WIT
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness—and her…
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WITCH HUNT
Ten years after Abigail Williams, instigator of the witch trials, disappeared from Salem, she turns up at the tavern of her fellow ex witch-hunter, Mercy Lewis. About to leave the colonies forever, it’s her last chance to understand the madness that overtook them. But with war threatening northern New England…
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WITTGENSTEIN ON TYNE
During a 1943 air raid in Newcastle, Wittgenstein and his neighbours meet in the basement, where he has taken his young male lover. Confronted with bigotry and cluelessness, as well as the enlightened mind of 13 year old Sandra, Wittgenstein gives a brief and humorous lesson on the notion of…
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WITWENDRAMEN
Fitzgerald Kusz has made playful, ironic and sad thoughts about the fact of being a widow and compiled them in this tragic comedy revue about women of all ages, from young to the very old.
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WIZ, THE
This is the new musical version of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is by Frank L. Baum. It is packed with rock, gospel and soul songs but is likely to be better known from the film, starring among others Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. Naturally it is the everlasting story about…
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WOLF LULLABY
This sensational Australian drama comes with several awards. And quite right so. In a most gripping way, it deals with an issue that inevitably changes the lives of the people involved. As what makes a child commit murder? The story takes place in a far away town in Tasmania, where…
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Wolfgang Kudrnofsky
Wolfgang Kudrnofsky, born in Vienna in 1927, has degrees in psychology and anthropology. Since 1950 he has written several plays, novels and travel books. In addition, he is most keen on photography and film exhibits, at home and abroad.
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WOLFSRECHT
A fable about the survival of the fittest, of friendship, solidarity and resistance.
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WOLKEN ZIJN DRIJVEND VERDRIET
A man and a woman meet in a classroom, but it’s not clear who’s teaching who. Everything seems to be possible in what looks like to be a boring hour of lecture.
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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 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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Woody Allen
American motion-picture director, screenwriter, actor, and author, best known for his bittersweet comic films containing elements of parody, slapstick, and the absurd. He is also known as a sympathetic director for women, writing strong and well-defined characters for them. Much of Allen’s comic material derives from his urban Jewish middle-class…
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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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Yale M. Udoff
Mr. Udoff is a playwright and screenwriter. The NY Times said of his A GUN PLAY, directed by Paul Weidner, which premiered at The Hartford Stage Company: “Mr. Udoff is a discovery. It is clear he has a comic vision, verbal facility and a contemporary consciousness.” He has twice been…
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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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Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza’s plays have been adapted in over 35 languages and performed throughout the world in hundreds of productions as diverse as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National in London, the Berliner or the Schaubühne in Berlin, the Burgteater in Vienna, as well as some of the world’s most celebrated…
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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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Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima was the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (1925– 1970), a Japanese author, poet and playwright, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku. Mishima was a disciplined and versatile writer. He wrote not only novels, popular serial novellas, short stories and literary essays, but also highly acclaimed plays…
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Yves Navarre
Yves Henri Michel Navarre, French novelist and playwright, was born 24 September 1940 in Condom, Gascony, France. He earned degrees in Spanish, English, and modern literature from the Universite de Lille III in 1961 and 1964 and attended Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord in 1964. He began submitting…
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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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