CALENDAR GIRLS
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…
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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…
Read moreCALL ME BY MY RIGHTFUL NAME
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Camp Siegfried was a real American summer camp that from the 1930’s taught Nazi ideology and was owned by the German American Bund, an American Nazi organization dedicated to promoting a positive view of Nazi Germany. In Bess Wohl’s play, two teenagers meet in this camp and fall in love…
Read moreCAN YOU HEAR ME AT THE BACK
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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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
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Set in the forgotten world of the great New England sailing ships, a millionaire’s pampered son falls off an ocean liner and is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman, who teaches him the virtue of hard workd and the true riches of life. 19 M & one boy Conductor/Keyboard 1 (Piano)…
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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…
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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…
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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.
Read moreCaren Jeß
Caren Jeß is an award-winning German playwright. She was born in 1985 in Eckernförde and studied German philology and literary studies in Freiburg i.Br and Berlin.
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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…
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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),…
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Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (1707 – 1793) was a celebrated Venetian playwright and librettist, whom critics today rank among the European theatre’s greatest authors. His works, along with those of the modernist Luigi Pirandello, include some of Italy’s most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for…
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Carlos Semprún Maura (23 November 1926, Madrid – 23 March 2009, Paris), was an author, playwright and journalist, mostly in French.
Read moreCARMELA FULL OF WISHES
It’s Carmela’s birthday, and she’s finally old enough to accompany her big brother on his errands. On their way to the laundromat, past fields of what her Mamí calls “flores de cempazuchitl”, Carmela finds a puffy white dandelion to blow, but her brother asks “Did you even make a wish?”…
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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…
Read moreCarol Hall
Carol Hall is an American composer and lyricist, born in Abilene, Texas. Hall is best known for composing the music and lyrics for the Broadway stage musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1978, adapted as a film in 1982). Her other major works include the unsuccessful Broadway sequel thereto,…
Read moreCarole Bayer Sager
Carole Bayer Sager (born March 8, 1947) is an American lyricist, songwriter and singer best-known for writing the lyrics to many popular songs performed on Broadway and in Hollywood films. Sager wrote her first pop hit “A Groovy Kind Of Love” in 1966 while a student at the New York…
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CAROLE FRÉCHETTE (Canada) Carole Fréchette was born in Montreal in 1949. She graduated as an actress from École nationale du Canada and was thereafter employed at Théâtre des Cuisines, both as an actress as well as playwright, up until the early eighties. However, since 1993 she has focused only on…
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CAROLINE JØRGENSEN (b. 1982) is a Danish playwright and translator. She attended The Danish National School of Performing Arts Playwriters Programme from 2006-2010, but had her debut as a dramatist already in 2005 (COUNT ON ALICE) at Teater Katapult. In 2013 she received The Danish Playwrights’ Talent Award for BEHIND…
Read moreCarolyn Leigh
Carolyn Leigh (August 21, 1926 – November 19, 1983) was an American lyricist for Broadway, movies, and popular songs.Leigh, born in the Bronx, New York, graduated from Hunter College High School, Queens College and New York University, and worked as a copy writer for radio stations and advertising agencies. Her…
Read moreCarson McCullers
Carson McCullers made her literary debut at age 23 with the publication of THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER (1940). The story concerns the relationships among five people living in a small town in Georgia. All are damaged spirits, struggling to find meaning in their own lives, yet paralyzed by…
Read moreCarsten Friis
Carsten Friis, born in 1971, has over the past twenty years staged around 140 musicals, and made several promotional and educational films. Carsten is the artistic director and director of Hans Christian Andersen Festival Plays, and is also permanently assigned as a director at Frøbjerg Festspil , Musikteaterskolen, Vejle n…
Read moreCaryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill (1938) is an award-winning English playwright. She studied English literature at Oxford and is one of the most performed playwrights in British theater. Several of her texts have been published.
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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…
Read moreCASE OF THE CRUSHED PETUNIAS, THE
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.
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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…
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The rich, tyrannical owner of a cotton plantation, Big Daddy, returns home from a clinic unaware that he is dying of cancer. Except for his wife, the older members of Big Daddy’s family, two sons and two daughters-inlaw, all know his true condition. Indeed, it is really because of Big…
Read moreCAT WHO WALKED BY HIMSELF, THE (KÖTTURINN SEM FÓR SÍNAR EIGIN LEIÐIR)
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…
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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…
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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…
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CATCH AS CATCH CAN subverts all your expectations: What seems like a family comedy at first, takes a sharp turn with the introduction of a terrifying mental illness that seems to rip apart not only the person who suffers from it, but the perception of the play itself – a…
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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…
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In 2012 Ms. Ryan’s play, “THE PICTURE BOX”, was presented by The Negro Ensemble Company. The Black Theater Troupe in Phoenix, Arizona will be producing “THE PICTURE BOX” under the direction of Artistic Director, David Hemphil in their 2016-2017 season. Ms. Ryan’s plays: “THE SNOW ROOM”, “ALL SAINTS DAY” and…
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A linguistically rich dramatical poem in monologue form, where an incarcerated in a Haitian prison speaks about poverty, corruption, hypocrisy, violence and power. 1 actor – can be played by a person regardless of gender.
Read moreCatherine Celesia Allen
Catherine Celesia Allen has written numerous of full-length plays and one-acts. In 1993 she won the Berverly Hills Award for The Essence of Being.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical is based on the Nobel prize winning TS Elliot’s world famous and beloved poetry collection “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” from 1939. It premiered in London’s West End on May 11, 1981. It was an immediate success and was highly acclaimed both by an enthusiastic…
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Open stage 1970s musical about drugs, dropouts, conservation and Australian history.
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Obie Winner: Meta-theatre, cross-cultural installation-theatre, gender, race – it’s all there. It is also funny. A dissident Chinese artist enters the editorial office of a prominent magazine and gets quizzed on what of his remarkable dissident story is actually true. Then we meet another Chinese artist… Every scene negates the…
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This play is a sequel to RUN FOR YOUR WIFE.We find John Smith eighteen years later, still happily married to his two unsuspecting wives. He now has a sixteen-year old son, Gavin, by Barbara in Streatham, and a fifteen-year old daughter, Vicki, by n Wimbledon. One day Gavin and Vicki…
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This is a typical English comedy about the married business man with a weakness for young women. His troubles start for real the day he decides to marry one of them, without telling his wife. The play has rightfully acclaimed great success in several cities around Europe.
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This is a dramatization of the writer’s novel ¨Solitaire¨. A deep philosophical drama revealing human cruelty and the tragic meaninglessness of life, but at the same time filled with humorous artfulness. ¨The Lonesome¨ of the novel is ¨The Person¨ in the drama. He is dumb until the last scene. He…
Read moreCE QUE LE DICTATEUR N’A PAS DIT (WHAT THE DICTATOR DID NOT SAY)
Despite massive riots and upheavals in 2011 the concept of freedom, autonomy and self-determination is not self-evident in most Middle Eastern countries. In this text the Tunisian playwright and lawyer Meriam Bousselmi, who participated in the revolt gave the floor to a disposed dictator. It is a riveting, subtly accusing…
Read moreCecil P. Taylor
Taylor was unique in being equally at ease writing for the RSC and the West End or local theatre such as the Newcastle-based Live Theatre Co. He died aged 52 in 1981, leaving a phenomenal legacy of more than 70 plays written in little more than 20 years.
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The set for this play reveals two tables at a restaurant in London. Around the first table, two wealthy married couples are celebrating the one pair’s anniversary. The women are sisters and the yuppies are brothers. At the next table, an ambitious busyness man, in his 30’ies is seated with…
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Despite her father’s dislike, the young Celine gets romantically involved with the German writer-to-be Emilie and becomes pregnant. World War 1 bursts out and Emile is forced to join the German army and to leave Celine and their child behind. The play is about three generations and about hatred and…
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This is a terribly hilarious play about, ‘The Knockout Sisters’; the wrestling group that finally managed to get rid of their wicked manager, ‘Bigman’. A black humoured satire about the lowest of the lowest sales methods within the entertainment industry.
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Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband’s graves. Ida is sweet-tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the…
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Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s novels. The strange animal – the human being – (first of all maybe the man and then his relationship with the equally strange animal, the woman) never stops fascinating Chekhov, who has given us wonderful dramas and also a series of novels concerning the same subject.…
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This fascinating play is written in 1951 and is considered as one of Ionesco’s most important works. On a desert island an old couple lives. They are in their nineties. The man functions as a porter even though it is hard to imagine how this is possible in a tower…
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The great West End director David Normandy only lives for his theatre, and his wife, Lee. But when he suddenly falls in love with the young enchanting actress, Olivia, he has no choice but to tell his wife and separate. What the new couple doesn’t know is that Lee is…
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At Playa Sola High School, it’s business as usual – the jocks, geeks, popular kids, etc., all try to navigate a world of insecurities, grades, fashions and text messages. Then, during a school trip to a historic mission, the minds of two high school seniors are inexplicably switched. Suddenly, Kyle…
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A semi-pro Northern England rugby league team meet in the changing room one day a week. There they perform their pregame initiation rites, strip down, loosen muscles and get in their uniforms, but also give expression to their hurts, desires and fighting instincts.
Read moreCHAPEL PERILOUS, THE
2 Acts / 3M, 2F plus chorus of 4 or more Composer Frank Arndt. Open stage with music. Now more than 25 years old Dorothy Hewett’s epic play has grown into a classic of the new Australian Theatre and Sally Banner into a national heroine. A major statement of the…
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From the slums of London to the heights of Hollywood, Chaplin is the showbiz Broadway musical about the silent film legend the world couldn’t stop talking about – Charlie Chaplin. The musical reveals the man behind the legend, the undeniable genius that forever changed the way America went to the…
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Based on part of Neil Simons own life, the play mixes laughter with heartache. George Schneider, a writer whose wife has recently died, returns to a lonely apartment. His younger brother Leo, a theatrical press agent and born matchmaker, tries to snap George out of his emotional tailspin by supplying…
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