CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION
In an artsy small town, an unlikely collection of strangers sign up for Marty’s “Adult Creative Drama” class: a recently divorced carpenter, a high school junior, a former actress, and Marty’s husband. Unfolding like a charmingly funny indie film, the group plays Marty’s imaginative (and sometimes awkward) theatre games. But…
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Rich in humour, wit, conflict and depth this play is a lasting contribution to the theatre by an important twentieth-century writer. Lady Kitty, who had given up a stuffy life with her titled husband to run away with a young adventurer, watches Elizabeth tangle herself in the same situation Lady…
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THE CITIZEN is the world’s first tabloid opera, and in 2003 it received the Danish Reumert Award for Best Music Performance. The story begins at the time where the rich and powerful newspaper tycoon Hearst, is going through his worst nightmare; suddenly being the victim, in own person, of the…
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They are sixteen years old; they pierce each others ears, dream about love, dream about guys, smoke joints and have children. Everything is chaos and gently they try to find a way out, but how can one find one’s way in a world, where everyone are barking up the wrong…
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‘City of Angels’ is the story about a young author who is working on his first manuscript that he wants to send to a Hollywood producer. His film is similar to the old Humphrey Bogart films about Sam Spade; the amiable, sharp-witted though often unlucky, private detective who, despite the…
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THE CITY is the sequel to THE COUNTRY from 2000. It is a riddling horror about a normal middle-class couple; Chris, who is about to lose his job and his wife Clair, who is working as a translator and who accidentally meets an author who informs her that he has…
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1 F / 3 M Drama in one act A powerful and moving drama in which an ageing father is forced to come to grips with the crushing reality of his daughter’s senseless murder. Grilled relentlessly by a dispassionate detective, the father is unable to bring his memory into focus…
Read moreCLARA S. MUSIKALISCHE TRAGÖDIE
The anachronistic gathering of three historical figures – Clara and Robert Schumann meet the Italian poet laureate and national hero, Gabriele d’Annunzio in his villa in the year 1929. The dominating theme is the tense relationship between art and money, which most of all applies to Clara. Up until her…
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Talented, wealthy, beautiful, and controversial, Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) is best remembered as a congresswoman, ambassador, playwright og socialite. Her most succesful work include THE WOMEN (1936), KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE (1938) and MARGIN FOR ERROR (1939).
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This play is based on Clarence Darrow for the Defense by Irving Stone. Here is the famous attorney reminiscing over his long and renowned career, touching on many of his famous trials including the “Monkey” trial and the sensational Leopold-Loeb case. Darrow reviews much of America’s legal history with salty…
Read moreClark Gesner
Clark Gesner (born March 27, 1938, in Augusta, Maine, died July 23, 2002, in downtown New York City)[1] was an American composer, songwriter, author, and actor. He is probably best known for composing You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a musical adaptation of the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts.[2]…
Read moreClaus Flygare
Claus Flygare (born 1945) is a Danish director, screenwriter, and one of the country’s most prominent film and theater actors. In the 1970s, Flygare wrote lyrics for the socially critical rock group, Jomfru Ane Band. In 1983, he co-founded the Mammutteateret in Copenhagen, which became one of the most innovative…
Read moreClaus Reenberg
Claus has been involved in writing and composing the musicals CIRKUS PSYSHOW at the Amfiteatret, I LOVE IT at Musikkens Hus, and most recently CHARLES AUNT at Fredericia Musical Theater. Additionally, he has written and directed several theater concerts and children’s theater performances. As a songwriter, he has contributed songs…
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Trumpets and Raspberries is a farce with the traditional ingredients of mistaken identity and its hilarious consequences, but it also has a strong political message. It was written by the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Dario Fo, and was first performed in 1981 under its original Italian title,…
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In a rehabilitation clinic, resembling a concentration camp, several individuals are put through a ‘purification process’ in order to rid them from anything abnormal. So the play consists of shocking scenic images that concurrently insist that love will always prevail.
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Clemens Legolas Telling (born 1979) is an award winning Danish rapper, playwright, lyricist and TV personality, who has released several acclaimed albums and written the text material for a growing number of sold out musical and chorographical works which have been performed worldwide. Før Broen (Before The Bridge) from 2009…
Read moreClement Scott Gilbert
Clement Scott (1841–1904) was an influential English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph, and a playwright and travel writer, in the final decades of the 1800s. His style of criticism – acerbic, flowery, and (perhaps most importantly) carried out on the first night of productions, set the standard for theatre…
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Tyrannical Comte de Clerambard and his family are living in destitution until he is transformed by a monk and tries to emulate Francis of Assisi. His family thinks he is mad and takes steps to combat the disease.
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A techno-thriller that begins when a young woman is raped at a fraternity and ends in a future where corporations promise a new body with the swipe of a screen, CLICK follows a hacktivist named Fresh who turns industrial espionage into high art. As this virtual Banksy takes over the…
Read moreClifford Odets
Clifford Odets (1906-1963) was born in Philadelphia. After graduating from high school he became an actor and in 1931 joined the Group Theatre. Turning his attention from acting to playwriting, Odets soon came to be regarded as the most gifted of the American social-protest dramatists of the 1930s. His first…
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Pieter, a once enthusiastic art historian now working as a civil servant, gets in trouble when the local government wants him to return the works of art that he has received as birthday presents over the years. The paintings are now worth millions. He refuses and asks his friend and…
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This play concerns the lives of people living in the big cities, seeking grounding and a form of identity. We meet Henry who has several casual acquaintances though no true and close friends. Also, there is Anne, an actress, who changes between using Henry and simply ignoring him. And lastly…
Read moreCLOCKWORK ORANGE, A
Told by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. Anthony Burgess’ 1963 classic stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a classic of twentieth century post-industrial alienation often are shocking us into a…
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This play revolves around four people of different professions; a stripper, a photographer, a doctor and a journalist, who are all constantly searching for closeness. It is an acidy, black comedy about love, jealousy and guilt, where there is a huge difference between what the people say and actually feel.
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The play opens in an asylum where Zelda Fitzgerald is being treated for mental disorder. Her husband, Scott, visits her, and this leads to a series of flashbacks in which details of their lives, in particular those concerning Zelda’s attempts to achieve self-expression, are enacted.
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A man and a woman look back on their wrecked relationship. They believed in eternal love, but now it is finally over and verbal executions fly through the air in two relentless monologues. First him, then her and neither of them pull any punches when love is measured and the…
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This play takes place in Cuba. The decoration consists of: One blue sky, a table and six chairs. Here two British writers meet, Maria and Owen as they have both come to report on life on the island after the revolution. As it turns out, they come from two rivalling…
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3 Acts / 20M, 17F / Possible doubling / 3 parts A sprawling stage adaptation of Tim Winton’s enormously successful novel of the same name. A huge success at the 1998 Sydney & Perth festivals, the story follows the fluctuating fortunes of two families who inhabit a rambling old house…
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The play contains songs from the period of 1894-1905 arranged by Alexandra Ivanoff. Members of a stuffy, all-male club, circa 1905, tap dance and sing fourteen songs of the era, all indicative of male smugness and superiority. During the final, the audience discovers that the top hats, white ties and…
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A Pulitzer and Laurence Olivier award winning comedy, which takes place in Chicago in the beginning of the 1950’s. A white married couple are about to sell their house to a black family, but the neighbors aren’t keen on the idea in fear of that black people in their white…
Read moreCOAST OF UTOPIA; THE: VOYAGE, SHIPWRECK, SALVAGE
THE COAST OF UTOPIA consists of three successive plays, each of which is an independent play; VOYAGE, SHIPWRECK, SALVAGE. The trilogy is an epic of romanticists and revolutionaries caught in the fight for political freedom in a Russian imperial era. Set in the middle of 18th century Russia and Europe,…
Read moreCOCADOODLE DANDY
This is a jolly and bizarre saga in modern times with a gallery of characters and props which Yeats, Synge and O´Casey consider typically Irish. The story is described with the bitter irony of love and with a pungent satirical grip, a bunch of people which succumb to superstition and…
Read moreCOCKTAIL HOUR, THE
The time is the mid 70s, the place a city in upstate New York. John, a playwright, returns to his family’s house, bringing with him a new play which he has written about them. His purpose is to obtain their permission to proceed with production, but his wealthy, very proper…
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Greg has arranged a quiet cocktail party with his wife, Emily, and his stuffy colleague, Professor Stilton. A perfect evening could mean Greg achieves tenure at the college. But when Professor Stilton arrives, Emily and the hors d’oeuvres are missing, Greg’s mother-in-law insists on crashing the party, and Greg’s deadbeat…
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An intelligent satire, which sheds light on the right-wing parties’ fear of immigrants against the left-wing’s desperate confusion about not having a stand that matches the debate on integration. Nadir, both an immigrant and politician, steps forward saying that ‘the foreigners’ are self-inflicted losers. With that, Nadir’s political career looks…
Read moreCody Philip
CODY PHILIP (Lyrics) is a renowned lyricist, having written, among other songs, “Laughter In The Rain”, “Bad Blood”, “Solitaire”, “The Immigrant”, and “Love In The Shadows” – all with music by Neil Sedaka, as well as “Ring Ring” (written with Sedkaka, as well as Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Stig…
Read moreCOLD STORAGE
An investment advisor in fine art encounters an Armenian fruit and vegetable merchant in the roof garden of a New York hospital. Through intensive probing, the cancer-stricken Armenian unravels the paralyzing truth about his companion – the price he paid to survive the Holocaust.
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Almost at the same time the first two plays of Laura Wade premiered at Soho Theatre and Royal Court. She became one of the most discussed and acclaimed debutants in London: Myra suffers from cancer in the terminal stage and insists on arranging her own economically correct funeral. But can…
Read moreCole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (1891 – 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies KISS ME, KATE, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, DUBARRY WAS A LADY and ANYTHING GOES, as well as songs like “NIGHT AND DAY,” “I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU,” “WELL, DID YOU EVAh!”…
Read moreColette
Colette Marchand (b.1925) is a French dancer and actress. Marchand performed as a première ballerina on Broadway: Roland Petit’s Les Ballets de Paris (1949 & 1950) and Two on the Aisle (1951). Marchand was cast in the role of “Marie Charlet” for the British movie Moulin Rouge (1952), for which…
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Aisling and Matt are exhausted by their infant’s colic and plagued by doubts of everything: Relationship status, love, sex, life and death. For the couple, who is struggling to keep their sanity, the last thing they need is the entrance of their friend Tom, who has just come out of…
Read moreColin Escott
Colin Escott (Co-Author) Born in England, Colin Escott lives near Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of Good Rockin’ Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, the first in-depth account of the Sun Records story. His book Hank Williams – The Biography has been adapted into the movie…
Read moreColin Higgins
Colin Higgins (1941 – 1988) was an American screenwriter, actor, director, and producer. He was best known for writing the screenplay for the 1971 film Harold and Maude.
Read moreCOLLABORATORS (JOHN HODGE)
Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he’s offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Inspired…
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2 F / 2 M Comedy in two acts 1 Set A film producer arrives at the Winter family to get a close study of family life. He wishes to persuade the man of the house – a rather unsuccessful lawyer with scribbling as extra jobs – to write a…
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Essie’s lost her job. Her girlfriend’s left. But she’s alright. Except lately she feels more like a chair than a person. One of those folding chairs. Solid one minute, but the next… Now Essie is on the lookout for a new job, but as she cannot sense herself anymore, she…
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This play revolves around the established Jewish author, Ruth Steiner, who teaches Creative Writing at a university. One of her new students is the young author Lisa Morrison, who eventually becomes her assistant and apprentice and over the next couple of years they become confidants. At least that is how…
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As in so many other Pinter plays, this one has got a homosexual theme as well. One is introduced to Harry, a well-off middle-aged fashion designer, who lives with his colleague Bill, twenty years his junior. And in this play, Pinter’s unwelcome stranger is their thus far unknown neighbour, James…
Read moreColleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough was born in Australia. A neuropathologist, she established the department of neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney before working as a researcher and teacher at Yale Medical School for ten years. Her writing career began with the publication of Tim, followed by The Thorn Birds,…
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This four character play follows a pair of black and white male roommates entering college in the 1960, juxtaposed with a pair of black and white female roommates in 2016.
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5 F / 4 M 1 Set Lawrence’s first play written in November 1906. The whole play takes place in one room, the hot living-room / kitchen where all the life of the family is concentrated. Ernest comes home from college for the weekend. He needs yet more books his…
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CRITICS’ CHOICE –”Tough social analysis meets sexual politics in Leyton’s lurid debut […] He deserves an Oscar.” was Time Out’s comment about Dominic Leyton’s debut play – one of the best reviewed British plays for a long time. The recipe is thus: use equal parts of comedy, thriller and Tarantino.…
Read moreCOMBAT DE NÈGRE ET DE CHIENS
Set in a remote corner of Africa, Battle of Black and Dogs (Combat de Négre et de chiens) is a politically, sexually, and culturally charged tale of psychological warfare that erupts at an isolated construction compound. When a hired man mysteriously dies, his brother arrives at the compound to collect…
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An award winning British debut play about nationalism, racism and young Muslims in Europe today. The action takes place in an English provincial town during the Ramadan. Racists plan to march through the city, while Shaz, a local garage mechanic, desperately tries to keep his business running smoothly so he…
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This is another ambiguous “anti drama” by Beckett. A fast attempt of describing the fleeting atmosphere of the meaninglessness and brevity of life.
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8 F / 1 M In a small-town dime store in West Texas, the Disciples of James Dean gather for their twentieth reunion. Now middle-aged women, they were teenagers when Dean filmed Giant two decades ago in nearby Marfa. One of them, an extra in the film, has a child…
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In the north of England, a retired comic teaches a night class for aspiring comedians. The first act portrays the students working up their acts; the second, their actual presentations; and in the final act it is seen that those who catered to the crass, philistine views of the agent…
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This is a futuristic fantasy mirroring present time. It portrays the production of soap series for TV, where the latest trend is melodramatic template storylines that are performed by specially programmed robots called ‘actoider’. During the recordings to a doctors-and-nurses series, the young and hopeful author, Adam is watching. Shortly,…
Read moreCOMING HOME
Veronika Jonkers left her beloved grandfather’s farm to pursue her dream of a singing career in Cape Town. Carrying a painful secret and a heart filled with disappointment, she returns after his death and strives to plant the seeds of a new life for her young son. In this stunning…
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An original and charming French comedy about a facetious game with a woman’s illusion of the hero of her life. Light, spiritual and intelligent.
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Bruno and Laurence find a banknote in their living room one evening. New banknotes appear daily and in larger quantities. It is as if it rains money. Where does the money come from, and what have they done to deserve it? This sudden wealth is it a possibility or a…
Read moreCOMMON PEOPLE
Variable cast. Most whistleblowers are not world-renowned like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange or Chelsea Manning. They are people like you and me, who at some point in their lives see something that is terribly wrong and decide to intervene. They are not Superman or Batman, but citizens who find themselves…
Read moreCOMMUNICATION CORD, THE
The setting of the farce is a remote Donegal peasant cottage which has been converted into a weekend retreat for members of the urban elite. The traditional elements of the genre combine with a satiric vision to produce a result which is at once hilarious and biting.
Read moreCOMPETITIVE TENDERNESS
An hilarious contemporary farce. In the competetive, fast lane of Australian politics, the City of Greater Burke is in the frontline of local government reform. Striving to become a model of leaner and meaner bureaucracy, the city is rationalising at an irrational speed. Driving the push for competition is the…
Read moreCOMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE
Three American comedians have created this high paced and most hilarious account of the complete works of Shakespeare – though highly abridged.
Read moreCOMPLEXITY OF BELONGING
A powerful, darkly humorous exploration of identity in the age of social media, Complexity of Belonging peers into the lives of nine interconnected individuals as they grapple with the question: how and where do I belong? Nationality, gender, sexuality and history collide and fragment in this audacious, theatrical exposé into…
Read moreCONFUSIONS
This play is actually a set of five interlinked one-act plays. Each play deals riotously, but with sharply pointed undertones, with human eccentricities and the human dilemma of loneliness; a mother unable to escape from baby talk, a disastrous fete, an unsuccessful seduction attempt, a fate-fraught dinner encounter- and the…
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