Conor McPherson
Conor McPherson was born in Dublin in 1970. His plays include RUM AND VODKA, THE GOOD THIEF, ST NICHOLAS, THE WEIR, A DUBLIN CAROL, and THIS LIME TREE BOWER. These are published as THIS LIME TREE BOWER (London, Nick Hern Books, 1996), ST. NICHOLAS and THE WEIR (Dublin, New Island…
Read moreCONSTANT WIFE, THE
This brilliant comedy of modern English life is a sophisticated play based on the idea that so long as a wife is supported by her husband it is up to her to be faithful to him, but if the husband is not faithful to her and if she supports herself…
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Marianne and Roland meet, have sex, do not have sex, get together, break up and meet again. He is a beekeeper, and she is an astrophysicist with an understanding of string theories and parallel universes. Payne focuses on the key moments in their relationship, which are stretched out and pulled…
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The plays is a small family drama centered around a man’s funeral . There are the tensions that might be expected at any such family gathering, and the efforts of coming to terms with past, present, and future.
Read moreCONTRA EL PROGRÉS / AGAINST PROGRESS
Against progress 7 moments as distant as they are close, 7 surreal and striking visions of a progress that does not advance, a progress that despises us, the same progress as always.
Read moreCONTRA L’AMOR / AGAINST LOVE
7 burlesque and forceful visions of an emotion as inexcusable as it is manipulated, which presumably redeems our society of its great evils as it destabilises and fuels hypocrisy among everyone.
Read moreCONVERSACIONES CON MAMA
Jordi Galceran is behind the ingenious drama EL MÉTODE GRÖNHOLM, which has been performed several times around the world. This is his wonderful adaption of Argentinean Santiago Carlos Oves’ affectionate and award winning comedy CONVERSACIONES CON MAMA from 2004. The 55-year-old son Jaime has provided a flat for his 82-year-old…
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2 F / 8 M This play concerns a Russian/Jewish family father, who clings to the hope of ‘The American Dream’. It is a most compelling play, in a time when many people seek abroad to start afresh.
Read moreCOOKING WITH ELVIS
In this comedy one is introduced to Jill who is 14 years old and obsessed with food; not only with eating it but also the cooking part of it. Her Mother is anorexic as well as alcoholic and furthermore she always brings home young men for sex, among others, the…
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In the autumn of 1941, the German nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg sought out his colleague and mentor, Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. Earlier on, in the 1920’ies, they had collaborated closely and almost had a father-son relationship. However, there is no evidence as to what lay behind this last meeting and…
Read moreCOPPIA APERTA, QUASI SPALANCATA
After having been suicidal for years due to the adultery of her husband, the fiery tempered Antonia agrees to change their marriage into an open relationship. In the beginning, her husband enjoys his new freedom to explore, but eventually Antonia starts dating herself, and soon the she’s the one with…
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One night in an apartment in city four young people meet. One of them has brought a love drug called core, which he offers the others. Soon after a drama takes place between the four and the night turns out to have fatale consequences. The four are all desperately seeking…
Read moreCornelia Otis Skinner
Skinner, Cornelia Otis (1901-1979) American author and actress Cornelia Otis Skinner was renowned as a sublime comic talent and gifted character actress. After attending Bryn Mawr College and studying acting at the Sorbonne, she appeared in the dramatic play BLOOD AND SAND on Broadway in 1921. She appeared in five…
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The play is set in a mental institution in 1970. A young director, Lewis, is about to make his first production. The only problem is that the players are insane. They want to do an opera, even though there is no orchestra and no one can sing. One of the…
Read moreCOSMONAUT’S LAST MESSAGE TO THE WOMAN HE ONCE LOVED IN THE FORMER SOVJET UNION, THE
This play brings several stories together: Two forgotten Soviet cosmonauts orbit a world that cannot hear them; A Scottish civil servant, in the throes of a midlife crisis, takes a brave step into the unknown; A Norwegian peace negotiator scours the world to retrieve the tape of his Russian girlfriend’s…
Read moreCOUGAR THE MUSICAL
COUGAR THE MUSICAL unleashes three divine but disillusioned women who develop a taste for hot, young men. They let their inner cougar roar and purr, finding self-love and empowerment in the process. The sexy, ferocious cast of three fabulous-over-forty women and one multi-talented boy toy sing and dance their way…
Read moreCOUNTRY GIRL, THE
A drama about an alcoholic and disillusioned actor who makes a comeback with the help from his wife and a young stage manager who believes in him, and encourages him – which – resultsing in victory. Two great roles for two great actors.
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This is a highly unpredictable and psychological thriller that revolves around Corinne and Richard, a wealthy young married couple that have left London, in order to start afresh in the countryside. He is a doctor and discreetly it is indicated that he is a former heroin addict and that he…
Read moreCOUP DE SOLEIL
A passionate and vivacious lady in her 40s becomes bored with her regular lover and falls madly in love with a dashing young florist. When her son returns home with an older woman he wishes to marry, she is clearly not in approval but hardly in a position to criticize.…
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Tonight, no one in the audience understands a thing. How could Frédéric, an ecologist mayor, farmer, young father, committed dreamer, recycler, cycle path and unplugged music festival… in short, how could Frédéric have decided alone, and in secret, to deploy the latest generation of relay antennas throughout the town? Coupures…
Read moreCOWBOY, COWBOY
A play of parody with set phrases of the genre of the spaghetti western with a surprising addition of a “Greek Chorus”. Jack, the man who is feared by everyone appears in a western saloon bar owned by Bud. He shoots Bud’s wife because she has taken his place at…
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A sort of sing-along country comedy in 2 acts set somewhere far away from the capital city. The action takes place in a hairdressing salon with two employees. One lives in an abusive marriage she can’t escape, the other in a lonely single life she can’t escape. One day, a…
Read moreCraig Bohmler
CRAIG BOHMLER (b. 1956) is a composer/pianist/conductor whose works have been widely performed in North America and Europe. He is primarily a composer for musicals. Bohmler has seven musicals and three operas to his credit as well as numerous choral works and songs. GUNMETAL BLUES (Wentworth and Adler) was presented…
Read moreCraig Lucas
Craig Lucas (born on April 30, 1951 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director. He is currently Associate Artistic Director at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle. As a newborn Lucas was found abandoned in a car in Atlanta. Lucas was adopted when…
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This play offers no defined situation but revolves around 4 characters, who express a disintegration of the human soul due to the pressure of love, loss and lust in a universe similar to those of Beckett.
Read moreCRAZY FOR YOU
This latest musical from the Gershwin brothers is a classical American show, made from the two main ingredients: Love and Music. We follow a young man, whose Father is a rich banker, when he is sent to a musical theatre to close it down. Though despite the plans, he falls…
Read moreCRAZY GARY’S MOBILE DISCO
This is a tragic though fun trio of monologues about three desperate blokes on a Thursday night in a Welsh suburban nowhere; the borderline psychotic Gary whose mobile disco at the local pub, has been replaced by a karaoke system; the crooner and karaoke singer Matthew D. Melody, who has…
Read moreCREDOINUNSOLODIO
An Israeli professor of Jewish History, the Palestinian student Shirin Akhras and the American soldier Mina Wilkinson. Each of them speak a different language, each of them is leading their own life, each completely different from the other. In the great labyrinth of the Holy Land, chance will tragically connect…
Read moreCREEPER, THE
An enthralling psychological thriller set in the mid-sixties, THE CREEPER begins as a young salesman arrives at the house of a prosperous eccentric Edward Kimberly, in answer to an advertisement for a gentleman’s companion. What follows is a compelling story of elegance, wit and tightening menace. Billed as tense, compelling…
Read moreCRIMES OF THE HEART
The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who…
Read moreCRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, THE
4 F / 5 M This play takes place on a little island just off the shore of Ireland. Very much to the point and most touchingly it describes a minimalist community, where news is rare and therefore rarely believed though where also dreams and expectations thrive extremely well. The…
Read moreCROCODILE FEVER
Northern Ireland, 1989. A farmhouse window smashes, and rebellious Fianna Devlin crashes back into the life of her pious sister Alannah. Together in the unlovely family home for the first time in years, the sisters are back at each other’s throats in seconds. And when they are forced to confront…
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Four of the beautiful and wealthy widow Coco’s previous husbands have either died mysteriously or disappeared. At the beginning of the play, we learn that this has now happened to a fifth as well. Coco must find a new husband as soon as possible in order to keep up her…
Read moreCROSSWORD PUZZLE PLAY
The Puzzlemaker is holding a workshop to teach you to make a crossword puzzle! As the Puzzlemaker embarks on their creation, they reveal the tricks of the trade, but also something unexpected: there is power in puzzles. Will the Puzzlemaker use their powers for good–or evil? And which choice means…
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This is the tale of an aboriginal woman nicknamed Crow. She has been fighting the government for years to win back a tin mine which is rightfully hers. Mercurial, stubborn, sexy and irreverent, she never gives in even if at times she is her own worst enemy. Set in 1942…
Read moreCRUCIBLE, THE
Set in the 17th century, this exciting drama mirrors the communist “witch-hunts” of McCarthyism in 50s America. A fascinating and disturbing dramatization of the collective psychology of persecution it shows all too painfully how even a close-knit rural community can be desolated once doubt and suspicion take hold.
Read moreCRUEL AND TENDER
Fascinated by Sophocles’ tragedy “The Trachiniae”, the famous Swiss director Luc Bondy encouraged the British dramatist Martin Crimp to transpose the antique piece into a modern story about marriage, violence and war in a world of political hypocrisy and emotional terrorism. This has resulted in a modern tragedy about love…
Read moreCRYPTOGRAM, THE
1 F / 1 M / 1 Boy Drama A young boy, John, comes downstairs to tell about his upcoming trip with his dad to the family friend, Dell. Mother, Donnie, is in the kitchen making tea. Soon the three are discussing the excitement of the trip, why John can’t…
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Set in an attic flat in London in the early 80’s. Richard, suffering from extreme diabetes and the breakdown of his relationship with Jane, meets Thomasina, blind from birth. They fall in love and Richard loses his sight.
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The 13-year-old vampire, Eve, does everything a good little vampire girl should. She stays inside, she stays away from her sister’s neck, and she sticks to the set of rules the older sister, Tabby, has made for her. No one but Tabby knows of her existence and Eve’s fairytale vision…
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An actress with an absent boyfriend, a teenager doing his thesis on pornography, an au pair with a night to spare and a famous thinker with sex on the brain meet randomly in the bosom of a paradox: a cool bar in Canberra. Two conversations straddle each other and four…
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This musical is a send-up of backstage murder mystery plots, set in 1959 Boston, Massachusetts and follows the fallout when the supremely untalented star of Robbin’ Hood of the Old West is murdered during her opening night curtain call. Can a police detective who moonlights as a musical theater fan…
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The gentleman and bad character George is waiting outside a cheap dive for his friend ‘The Patch’, who is known for never being late. Both men are involved in the mob and the word on the street is that there is a snitch in the crowd. George gets more and…
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In the summer of 1929, Arthur Sinclair, last of the great Australian silent film makers arrives in Wagga Wagga to shoot the story of bushranger Dan Rafferty – and uncovers a hornet’s nest of dark secrets!
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Nanna was born with horns in her forehead but had them removed when she was still a baby. Now she’s a teenager with a very low self-esteem. She is convinced that something is wrong with her. She’s isolating herself and cutting herself in secret – her friend, Astrid, is the…
Read moreCy Coleman
Jazz pianist and prolific composer who wrote dozens of Broadway show tunes and scored several Hollywood films. His most memorable songs include “Witchcraft” and “The Best Is Yet to Come.”
Read moreCYRANO DE BERGERAC (David Grimm)
CYRANO DE BERGERAC is brand new adaptation in verse of the famous crowd-pleasing tale of love, honor, and panache, by way of a warrior-poet with a huge nose and a huge complex about it.
Read moreCYRANO DE BERGERAC (Martin Crimp)
In Crimp’s radical version of the French classic rap battles, poetry slam and spoken word performances become substitutes for swords in duels and fights: If you want to move ahead, you’d better know how to use your language. The play takes place in France in the 1640s as in the…
Read moreD`APRES NATURE, OU PRESQUE
A brilliantly composed thriller, in which the excitement is preserved until the very last line. The story is original and the perpetrator is revealed with no help from the superintendent of police, contrary to the typical detective drama.
Read moreD. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885 –1930) was an English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct. Lawrence’s opinions earned…
Read moreD. L. Coburn
D.L. Coburn (b. 1938) is an American playwright; best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game, in which two senior citizens, a man and a woman, play a series of games of gin rummy, revealing different aspects of their personalities, all the while. The play also won several…
Read moreDacia Maraini
Dacia Maraini (b.1936) is an Italian writer. She is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentine ethnologist and mountaineer of mixed Ticinese, English and Polish background who wrote in particular on Tibet and Japan. Maraini’s work focuses…
Read moreDAEMON (DEMON)
A patchwork of ancient Greek tragedies makes a mythological tour-de-force in DAEMON, where Helen, Andromarche, Penelope, Hermione, Hecuba, Electra, Orestes, Telemachus, Neoptolemus and Menelaus meet at Clytaemnestra’s funeral seven years after the end of the war in Troy. The noble intentions are long gone among this gang of famous characters.…
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DAY AND NIGHT Peter Asmussen & Simon Staho Dramatization rights “Day and Night” is about people who love and want to be loved. It is the story of a family dad, his young son, his unfaithful wife, her secret lover, his young mistress, his lonely sister, his mother who is…
Read moreDAGE PAA EN SKY
An original play that presents the old gods as weak and needy and the humans as outgoing rulers. A paratrooper lands on a sky and is confronted with an existential choice between heaven and earth. Is there any reason why he should let his parachute unfold and continue his life…
Read moreDAGENES LYS
A man is in search of his mother’s history. His discoveries take him on a journey that spans 4 generations of strong women and useless husbands. We follow the family through peeing competitions, deaths and trips to Spain until finally they end on a hilltop – with the house in…
Read moreDAGENS RET
Bjarne has a hard time killing time since he stopped working. Fortunately, his neighbour, Ib, is so annoying that the anger can save Bjarne from his dreary early-retirement life. One day (when Bjarne accidentally beat lb’s cat to death with a frying pan and made it to look like a…
Read moreDAISY DIAMOND
Dramatization rights. This is the gripping story of Anna who has one dream only – to become an actress. Without telling her wealthy family she travels to Copenhagen in order to pursue her secret dream. However, fate will it differently, when she falls pregnant and becomes mother to a little…
Read moreDale Wasserman
Dale Wasserman has served the theatre for over 50 years. In earlier days he roamed America as a hobo, riding freight trains and thereby avoiding any formal education whatsoever. At nineteen he gravitated into the theatre where he cut his teeth on every conceivable job – stage manager, lighting designer,…
Read moreDAMASCUS
Set in the foyer of a small hotel. The play highlights the impact of pre-conceptions and stereotypes in identifying how people interact and relate to one another through Paul’s character who seeks to market his new book on teaching English in Damascus and his daily interactions with the nationals, their…
Read moreDAMEN MED ENHJØRNINGEN
Radio play 4 F / 1 M THE LADY AND THE UNICORN is a perplexing story told in an obvious detective drama style with underlying jazz and characters that are indeed in a quandary. Chad and Minna are a couple planning to marry. Minna works as a correspondent for a…
Read moreDAMES AT SEA
This show takes place in glittering New York in the 1930’ies, backstage at a Broadway theatre where a new musical is only days from its opening. We follow the provincial girl Ruby who has had her lucky break in form of a place in the choir and before long she…
Read moreDAMSELS IN DISTRESS
Herewith three comedies under same cover DAMSELS IN DISTRESS from 2001: GAMEPLAN, FLATSPIN and ROLEPLAY. In contrast to THE NORMAN CONQUEST and HOUSE & GARDEN it is not necessary having to put up all three titles at the same time. Because as for the storylines, they do not form a…
Read moreDan Goggin
Dan Goggin is an American writer, composer, and lyricist for musical theatre. Goggin began his career as a singer in the Broadway production of Luther. He then toured for five years as a member of the folksinging duo, The Saxons, before writing the music for and appearing in the off-Broadway…
Read moreDan Schlosser
Dan Schlosser (b. 1956) is a Danish actor and writer. He wrote his first revue text at the age of fourteen and since then, he has written a number of both big and small plays for instance the rock musical BE-BOP-A-LULA.
Read moreDANCE CANARY
Ideally able to perform together as a band, but can be faked. Three old jazz musicians get together with a punk drummer and Czechoslovakian saxophonist for a come-back gig in a hospital for the mentally handicapped. Funny, moving, provocative.
Read moreDANCING AT LUGHNASA
This multi-award-winning play is about five impoverished spinster sisters in a remote part of County Donegal in 1936. With them lives Michael, seven-year old son of the youngest sister, and Jack, the sisters’ elder brother, a missionary priest newly returned from Africa. The events of that summer are narrated in…
Read moreDANDY DICK
The master of Victorian problem drama the author has also written a couple of comical farces of which this is possibly the easiest to revive today. A story about the vicar and his gradually decreasing morals, the marriage plans of his two daughters and the snobbish attitude of the establishment…
Read moreDANGER: MEMORY!
Contains CLARA and I CAN’T REMEMBER ANYTHING, please see synopsis under each title.
Read moreDANGEROUS CORNER
Robert Caplan and his wife are entertaining her brother and sister-in-law. Because Robert insists on uncovering the truth about his brother Martin’s ‘suicide’, many unpalatable revelations ensue which cause Robert to shoot himself. At this point, the opening scene is repeated, but this time they bypass the dangerous corner at…
Read moreDANGEROUS OBSESSION
A man obsessed with pinning the blame for his wife’s accident on someone enters the Driscoll home and shatters their marriage.
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