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A powerful, electrifying play which probes deeply and with great dramatic and comic effect into the lives of its characters; Anna, a young dancer who is devastated by the sudden death of her gay flatmate and collaborator Robby; her wealthy but shallow boyfriend Burton; and her other flatmate Larry, a…

The year is 1936. In Soviet, Stalin is doing his Moscow trials which are to crush any opposition in the state apparatus. Simultaneously, the revolutionary hero Kotov, his young wife Maroussia and their 6-year-old daughter Nadia enjoy a summer’s day with the family in the country. A stranger makes his…

In “The Burrow” (IDI Contest Prize 1990; Maschera Prize with golden laurel for the five actresses and a gold medal for stage direction in 1993; broadcast on Italian radio (RAI 3) in 1995; presented at the Grec festival in Barcelona in 1997; a new production in Italy (Parma) in 2000;…

The two friends, Berta and Silvia, live together in a fraternity. Berta is pregnant with her boyfriend, Manel, who she doesn’t trust, wherefore the girls decide to drug him with the truth serum burundanga. The serum makes him confess his infidelity and furthermore let them in on his secret membership…

This is a warm and sensible little overnight scrap between a couple of stranded, stubborn, appealing people. A bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner in the middle of a howling snowstorm. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travellers are going to…

God has given Erika an assignment: She has to go on a pilgrimage – the day after she must be in Poland at The Black Madonna. She goes by bus, but the bus has a completely different destination. Erika seeks the help of the others, but they all behave extremely…

This is a psychological thriller about revenge centres on the interlocking triangular relationship between Dee, a successful television playwright; Hallet, a detective-superintendent; and Stone, a humourless, prissy man. Dee arrives at Stone’s flat, having accepted an invitation to discuss a script by Stone’s wife. She is rather surprised when Hallet,…

This hilarious play centres on a voluble cleaning woman who keeps telling the cops how to mind their business and who steps forward with the right evidence in every pinch. She lives in the basement of the office building she cleans and one night finds a body. By the time…

“But for whom Charlie” is a rueful comedy about good, bad and bed manners. The play’s hero, Seymour Rosenthal is busy soul-rinsing the filthy millions he inherited from his philistine movie-magnate father. Seymour has established a foundation to give grants to needy and worthy writers. Painfully diffident, Seymour has all…

When you’re a young bachelor in your own apartment for the first time, even if it’s a cramped cold-water flat, you know what exhilaration is. If a pretty actress moves into the next apartment, you’ve got an even better beginning. Don has it better yet: the actress has proposed friendship…

A strong play written in a suggestive form and with a ragged undertone. The story takes place in an American prison cell in which the young Lily – a prisoner of her own mind – is locked up for murdering her mother. The play examines different stages in the young…

It’s 1990 and Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, is still there. He has his own TV show but the ratings are plummeting. When the show is axed his communication with Earth is severed and he is left utterly alone. How will he cope? Will he ever get…

3 F / 8 M / Choir Musical in 2 acts 1 Set This musical is the fruition of collaboration between two of England’s leading dramatists: Alan Ayckbourn who is praised for his dashing and often teasing comedies and Andrew Lloyd Webber who is certainly a supreme musical composer. Their…

This play by the Irish playwright Marina Carr, is both a comic tragedy about life and a tragic comedy about death. The main character is Hester Swane, who is 40 years old and has got gypsy blood in her. As a child she grew up with her mother in a…

Music by Charles Strouse, dialogue by Michael Stewart and lyrics by Lee Adams. This is the first hit-musical about the Rock & Roll hysteria among teenagers. It is an authentic story of the teenager-idol Conrad Birdie and of the excitement he creates in an ordinary American city, Sweet Appletown, during…

An author’s struggle with her story. It is her sincere hope in her writing to be able to create a world without evil. But is it at all possible to use a good story to make the world a better place? A tragic accident some years ago in China is…

Set during the First World War in Northern Queensland, it is a story of a half kanaka islander girl, Roma and a half caste Aboriginal boy, Eddie who are itinerant canecutters. Before going off to war Eddie gets Roma a job in the house of the plantation owner, Mr Harris.…

A good old-fashioned Christmas Eve where everything is like it’s always been: the family gets together and the fighting begins, as usual. The Christmas spirit increases when grandma suddenly is missing. Eventually she is found lying (and dying) underneath the dinner table and the festivities move to the hospital where…

In Cabaret, a dingy nightclub in Berlin becomes a metaphor for the decadent pre-Hitler years in Germany; alas, a world in despair. When entering the Kit Kat Club, every one is bid Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome by the bisexual host and the main show is performed by the young British and…

It is important to emphasise that the play is not based on a particular ideological position, but that the disrespectful contact with bodies is bound to shock people. And that is exactly one of the most powerful effects of the farce, focusing on one of the taboos left in our…

Highly charged and savage satire on the corruptions that can eat away at families in the 1990s. A young man leaves a mental institution and goes home to his family. They aren’t there immediately, but when they do get together he finds the only way he can get their attention…

3 F / 7 M / Chorus of 2 F / 10 M / Extras The book is written by Harvey Fierstein and based on the play by Jean Poiret. The music and Lyrics is written by Jerry Herman. This Tony Award winning play adds new dimensions to the boulevard…

Fascist Spain, in 1967. Rosaura, the main character, wakes up three times with no memory of her life. Pier Paolo Pasolini took his inspiration from the text Life is a Dream by Calderón de la Barca to launch a fierce criticism of institutional power and the bourgeoisie. Calderón is a…

It’s a summer night in Edinburgh on the eve of devolution and Sean Connery is reported to be coming to stay at the Caledonian Hotel. Six Edinburgh residents have different reasons to try and find him. Darren, an unemployed boy from Oxgangs dreams of being Connery’s PA and escaping from…

Tragedy strikes when Annie’s husband John is diagnosed with cancer, and passes away shortly after. Her friend Chris and the other women of the house wife association “Women’s Institute” provide Annie with good support, until Chris comes up with another one of her crazy ideas. The women are to produce…

Neil Simon at his most humane, compassionate best. It’s a humorous confection divided into four parts: Visitor from New York, Visitor from Philadelphia, Visitor from London, and Visitors from Chicago. The first three require 1 F / 1 M.; the last one, 2 F / 2 M. In Visitors from…

The drama is inspired by S.F. Pfoutz’s novel “The Whipping Boy” and the leading characters are two students at Columbia University, a white man, a coloured and a white girl. The writer’s sense of little details in huge problems is extraordinary. He does not try to solve a problem; he…

Explores what life is like in small country towns across rural Australia, the sense of desolation and hopelessness that mingles with the common-sense humanity that is needed to make it all bearable. The play highlights why people turn to drugs and gives an insight into the broader culture and society…

The play is set sometime in the future, where Jem has been alone on the spaceship Callisto 5 for 8 years. His only occupation is a variety of video games along with I.R.I.S’s voice, but her company is tedious. For instance, she is programmed to tell jokes but not to…

CAMELOT is a 1960 musical play by Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics) and Frederic Loewe (music). It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White novel THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING. The main conflict of the novel and the play is the affair…

Aptly described both as an ‘expressionist phantasmagoria’ and ‘an apocalyptic vision of the contemporary world’, the play is set in a walled town in a police state from which various characters try to escape. Among the fictional people are famous literary and historical characters such as Don Quixote, Marguerite Gautier,…

Philip Turner, chief architect of Feltonly New Town, is disillusioned in the realization of what he has destroyed in planning and developing the town’s sterile, inhuman tower and office blocks. He decides to plan nothing at all, to opt for spontaneity even in his private life. Margery, wife of his…

14 F / 5 M / Choir / Ballet A full-length musical in 2 acts 10 sets The play takes place in Paris in 1893 and we follow the officious and novice judge, Aristide Forestier who has decided to take lead in a rectification movement. His first target is a…

A shocking story is related through divided monologues. This is about three different women who are deeply marked by the violent behaviour of one man. Even though they do not know each other their stories of murder, abuse and rape gradually unite them.

Candide 2000 is a contemporary staging of Voltaire’s classic story of Candide: the fantastical adventures of an innocent young man looking ‘for the best of all possible worlds.’ Set in the bright world of the modern shopping centre, Candide 2000 is a witty, extravagant and sometimes brutal exploration of innocence…

Ionesco calls this play, which is in fact his first play, an anti-play. It is “anti” against the naturalistic living-room play in which the words stand for their face value. The environment and the characters are clearly defined. Every story fraction is combined with another in a logical course of…

Xavier Herbert’s classic novel of racial conflict in the Northern Territory during the 30s has been expertly dramatised in this powerful and moving story of a man’s journey of self discovery when he learns the truth of his Aboriginal parentage. Published by Currency Press Theatre Series 1988

Berlin, May 4th 1945. Three Hitler Youth boys hide deep in a drain beneath the city. Above them the devastation and horror of war has dwindled to random bursts of resistance and the dreaded terror of occupation. Only weeks ago it was all a game, but now time is up…

Josey is recently widowed and tends to spend her weekends and holidays away from Liverpool, in her camper in North Wales. Her daughter Kim is 15 years old and has an affair with a bloke who also sleeps with one of her older sisters. Both relationships have consequences. So it…

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.

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…

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),…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…