DE EFTERLEVENDE
This is a grotesque and madly hilarious drama of revenge covering sisterhood, punishment, absinth, meat prices, infidelity and murder. One follows three sisters in different stages in their lives: as children in the 1920’ies; as young women in the 1940’ies; as mature women in the 1960’ies as well as old…
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An experimental and very entertaining play about the failure and rebirth of solidarity. It deals with love, unity and friendship, about loyalty and trust and their opposites. The dramaturgic finesse is that everyone is called Jos. The director decides who says what and how many people are on stage. Produced…
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“I understand that some people suffer from chronicle optimism…I don’t hold it against them, as long as they keep it to themselves.” Lena is a successful painter in Holland and abroad. However, she carries a big secret – she’s paralyzed from the neck and down and paints all her pictures…
Read moreDE KUS (THE KISS)
An apprehensive housewife with a secret. A disillusioned comedian with verbal diarrhoea. Both in their 50s and settled. Two troubled souls in a crossing in the woods that can take them any number of directions. A chance encounter that leads them to reflect on their lives as they have been,…
Read moreDE STILLE GRIJZEN VAN EEN WINTERSE DAG IN OOSTENDE (STILLE GRAUEN EINES WINTERTAGES IN OSTENDE, DAS)
DE TRE MUSKETERER (PRICE)
This is James and Adam Price’s musical version of Alexandre Dumas classic novel. It has undergone a hilarious modernisation where parody and satire are the main ingredients. The show buzzes with entertainment and one is tempted to draw a parallel to Mel Brooks’ universe. The action takes place in the…
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The action takes place in Verona in 1746 around the twin Brothers, Torino and Zanetto. Both of them want more than anything to get married, however, they were separated by birth and have no knowlegde of each other. Now they are in the same town eith the same goal…
Read moreDea Loher
Dea Loher (b. 1964) is a German playwright. After highschool she studied German language and literature at The Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and finished her studies with a master in arts (M.A.). Afterwards she moved to Berlin, where she works as a successful playwright. She has received a row…
Read moreDEAD FUNNY
On a first notion, a most boring marriage is perhaps not the funniest thing in the world, however, Johnson is not afraid of getting his audience to both laugh and cry about it. It is one of the more rare pieces with a very compelling content that was considered one…
Read moreDEAD MONKEY, THE
A childless Californian couple sit down to a candlelit supper to commemorate the death of their fifteen-year-old pet. The party sours after a series of discomforting revelations.
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The grandmother is saying her final goodbye every time they part – just in case. The mother is touching her stillborn baby. The daughter is finding the letter. The sister was too late. If only the sick person had known that this was terminal, then… The clown. The murder. The…
Read moreDEALER’S CHOICE
In a London restaurant, a group of men use poker as an escape from reality. Everything is at stake in a game about life and death. A powerful play about obsession, abuse, addiction, survival, persistence and relationships. Strong and challenging roles! Marber won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy…
Read moreDEALING WITH CLAIR
How much are you willing to sacrifice to be in the game? Where is the limit? Clair, a young real estate agent is going to sell a charming house on an expanding market. The owners tell her that they want an honest deal, but things change once an enigmatic buyer…
Read moreDEAR LIAR
From the published correspondence between Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell Jerome Kilty has created an extraordinary elegant and amusing state setting which is carried out partly as a dramatic reading and partly as a play with scenes similar to those you find in “Pygmalion” and “The Apple Cart”.
Read moreDEAR WENDY
Dramatisation rights The young loner Dick lives in a poor mining village in the southern USA. By coincidence, he comes to own a gun. When he discovers the power and possibilities of weapons, he initiates the establishment of a club: “The Dandies”. A brotherhood of armed, peace loving outsiders. They…
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Dear World is a Broadway musical based on Jean Giraudoux’s play The Madwoman of Chaillot. It focuses on the Countess Aurelia, Constance and Gabrielle, who deviously scheme to stop businessmen from drilling for oil in the Parisian neighbourhood of Chaillot. The forces of idealism, love and poetry win over those…
Read moreDEARLY BELOVED, THE
This play concerns a middle-class family; their individual lives in the village as well as the reciprocal relations on the home front. The theme is stationary boredom and the urge, for some, to break free from an isolated life, lacking both challenges and love.
Read moreDEATH AND THE MAIDEN
This is a Tony-award winning, political thriller, set in an unnamed country that is, like the author’s native Chile, emerging from a totalitarian dictatorship, the play explores the after-effects of repression on hearts and souls. Paulina Escobar’s husband Gerardo is to head an investigation into past human rights abuses. A…
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AN INTERVIEW by Mamet concerns a lawyer’s conversation with his client, which nearly develops into Doomsday for the lawyer. HOTLINE by Elaine May is a tragicomic farce about a volunteer, who works at a ‘Hotline’, where one night, a suicidal woman rings up, just for the company of someone at…
Read moreDEATH OF A SALESMAN
A masterpiece in Miller’s oeuvre. The last days of a failed salesman’s life seen through a tragic series of soul-searching revelations of the past life he has lived with his wife, his sons and his business associates, just where and how he has failed to win success and happiness.
Read moreDEATHTRAP
2 F / 3 M Thriller Seemingly comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a “dry” spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when…
Read moreDeborah Levy
Playwright, novelist and poet Deborah Levy was born in 1959 in South Africa. She moved to Britain with her family and studied theatre at Dartington College of Arts. She was a Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, between 1989 and 1991. She is a regular contributor of articles and…
Read moreDECADENCE
”Please Maggie put your money where your mouth is!” A decadent class struggle play based on a fierce hatred towards the wealthy. Two actors play two couples in a grotesque story about the exaggerated life. Berkoff writes in a masterly way, provocative and entertaining. The screen version with Joan Collins…
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Marcia has a surprise visitor: Jane, the wife of the man with whom Marcia is having an affair, who has come to take her revenge by informing Marcia’s husband of his wife’s infidelity. Marcia is at her wits end then has a brilliant idea. It seems her housepainter is a…
Read moreDEDICATION
“The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end”. “What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours.” Those two dedications are all that remain of the relationship between William Shakespeare and the third Earl of Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, who was at the heart of…
Read moreDEEP BLUE SEA, THE
The Deep Blue Sea begins with neighbours discovering the body of Hester Collyer who has tried and failed to commit suicide. Some time before, she left her husband, a respectable High Court Judge, for a semi-alcoholic former R.A.F. pilot. The relationship was physical and passionate but his ardour has cooled,…
Read moreDEEP FREEZE
This is a cheerful farce built on a madly amusing idea with fabulous roles and a series of very good scenes.
Read moreDEFEKT (DEFECTIVE)
Ellen becomes a victim of the white eugenics when she is deported to the institution for promiscuous women in the island of Sprogø in 1956. Later her baby girl is being forcibly removed from her and she is sent back to the main land in return for a voluntarily sterilization.…
Read moreDEFINITELY THE BAHAMAS
This brilliant one act has “Pinterish” reminiscences. It follows a middle-aged couple talking about their beloved adult son Michael, while disclosing his privacy more than realized. Commentating on the action is their Dutch lodger, who has another perspective on him. The play is composed as a dramatic detective story in…
Read moreDEINE HELDEN, MEINE TRÄUME
First part of Karen Köhler’s hero trilogy: Jonas comes from a violent background, but finds friendship and security in the boxing club where he learns that it is possible to achieve something with patience and diligence. When he meets the girl Jessica, he experiences love, but also jealousy as he…
Read moreDejan Dukovski
Dejan Dukovski (1969) playwright and screenwriter, born in Skopje, Macedonia. He has written many plays and film and televison screenplays. Best known for his Powder Keg (1994) produced over 20 times in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Without exception, all of his plays have been a huge successes: Siljan…
Read moreDELIBERATE DEATH OF A POLISH PRIEST, THE
The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest is a documentary drama on the trial of Popieluszko’s murderers.
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Delire a Deux is an argument between a man and woman about whether a snail is different from a tortoise.
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In a country at war for many years, a man and a woman wait. They pass their days confirming the identity of dead bodies at a hut near the border of the two fighting countries. When peace and a border guard arrive, chaos ensues. This moving and strangely comic work…
Read moreDEM MARDER DIE TAUBE
Poetry, lyrics, punk, prose and drama come together in a higher unity when Caren Jeß tells about the touching friendship between an older and a younger woman, each with challenging relationships with their past and families. Powerful material for two women.
Read moreDEMOCRACY
Has corruption become mainstream, and is reality actually an illusion? Michael Frayn once again focuses on treason, power and human identity: Perhaps we are all spies when it comes down to it? The year is 1974. Western Germany’s chancellor and the biggest political icon of Europe Willy Brandt, has to…
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A modern drama about the conflict emerging between idealism and power in a Nordic democracy. The prime minister of the country has been murdered. The nation and the daughter Beatrice are in mourning. Who killed him, and why? A political power game commences in which idealism vs. personal interests is…
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Demokraten portrays the public speaker and journalist Peter Sabroe’s turbulent life fighting for the little people in Denmark around the 1900’s. Sabroe was colourful- and tremendously controversial. He often created problems for himself and his surroundings because he could not help but interfere if he saw injustice. He got involved…
Read moreDEN BLÅ PEKINGESER
A November evening André arrives at the Theatre Café to pick up a letter sent to him by the love of his youth, Tordis Eck. The letter contains a picture of an old lady in a hunting costume, Isabella de Creuith, a long gone aunt of Tordis’ grand dad. Tordis…
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Edneia is searching for the blue voice which to her symbolises life, happiness and love. Freely adapted from the Love myth about Cupid and Psyche, we hear about Edneia’s longing for the unreachable Cupid who is protected fro all sides by his mother Aphrodite. In a mythological tour de force,…
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3 F / 1 M Drama 1999 This is the story of a famous painter, obsessed with his art and his ego. He does not see other people and is blind to the women in which he mirrors himself. He arouses compassion in these women while at the same time…
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This play is a stylistic and absurd description of a nightmare. Andreas arrives in an unknown city without remembering from where he came. Everything has been prepared for his arrival – a job, clothes and a flat. He adjusts quickly as he is a polite and controlled man, and shortly…
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This story is inspired by the Danish phenomena “The Blekingegadebanden”, and portrays three terrorists; Jonathan, Jesper and Kaspar, who decide to take action and responsibility. They wish to support the freedom fighters and they will require what they need to do so by robbing a bank. The two sisters Jane…
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This is a remarkable play about longing, loneliness and darts. Based around a lighthouse, an exciting story unfolds about the girl and the darts champion Saga, who earns money by polishing the lighthouse. Then one day the Geologist arrives in order to measure the grounds surrounding the lighthouse and this…
Read moreDEN DANSKE BORGERKRIG 2018-2024 (THE DANISH CIVIL WAR 2018-2024)
The play is an adaptation of Kaspar Colling Nielsen’s novel from 2013. Denmark is at civil war. The people has had it with financial crisis and the politician’s unkept promises. At the battlefront, in the centre of Copenhagen, Henry and the love of his life, Leonora, are ready to fight.…
Read moreDEN FÖRSTA HÖSTEN
In her debut for the live stage, Trotzig has created a line of short consecutive scenes which form a catching chamber play for four voices: a father, two grown-up daughters and a mother; the latter in the lead role as a teacher, who ends in deep depression upon her retirement,…
Read moreDEN FREMMEDE (L’ETRANGER)
Meursault has just received the news of his mother’s death. He cannot say that he mourn, but thinks it would have been better if she had not died. In his world nothing is meaningful. Life, death and love – nothing matters to him. A provocative attitude to life, which turns…
Read moreDEN GRIMME ÆTLING
Through a series of scenes from Odense, Copenhagen, Rome, Paris and other locations, a big cast guides the audience through the life and the enthralling, complicated and sensitive mind of Hans Christian Andersen. Through music and words, THE UGLY DUCKLING, conveys the author’s life from his birth to the time…
Read moreDEN LILLE MULDVARPEN SOM VILLE VITE HVEM SOM HADDE BÆSJET PÅ HODET HANS
“How rude!”, shouted the little mole. “Who have dropped a turd on my head?” The exact second the little mole sticks up his head to see if the sun is up, it happens: A turd lands on his head. The little mole finds it very rude and decides to find…
Read moreDEN LISTIGA ÄNKAN
The story takes place in Venice. Rosaura, who was married off to an old man, has been widowed, and now finally sees her chance to be able to form her own life. This is easier said than done when a line of suitors are queuing up. It’s all about being…
Read moreDEN LUFT ANDRE INDÅNDER
Sausage and Twig are living in a trailer. Sausage is furiously writing letters and lives under the kitchen cupboard. Twig spends his time knitting and going shopping. He always buys 10 white loaves because they are on sale. They are married to each other but are not aware of the…
Read moreDEN NYE CYRANO
Cyrano is a musketeer and a temperamental rowdy who battles and wins numerous fights that are most often caused by comments about his rather big nose. In addition though, he is also a poet and writes the most wonderful poetry. He falls in love with the attractive Roxanne but is…
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In a theatre in Sct. Petersburg a cast of actors are rehearsing on a play about the disruption and tragic destiny of the Zar-family. A family in which the widow, Maria Feodorovna, and the earlier Danish princess, Dagmar, are placed in the middle. The old zar dies and his son,…
Read moreDEN STORE GATSBY (Nicolei Faber)
Welcome to the roaring 1920s. New York is filled with dollars, decadence and big dreams. The cautious young man, Nick, moves from the Midwest to the East Coast to become a stockbroker and get a taste of New York’s economic boom. Here he meets the enigmatic gentleman, Jay Gatsby, who…
Read moreDEN STUMMA PAPEGOJAN
With a psychology in an almost burlesque stylized form Kerstin Perski shows how a foolish family’s selfishness can get an adult to regress to a child.
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This is a wonderful play for children and early teenagers: Hodder, it turns out, is not like any of the other boys in school. In fact, most of his class mates from 3rd grade find him rather weird, so he doesn’t really have any friends. Mostly he lives in his…
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IDENALI is a gripping thriller based on a true story. A dark and captivating investigation that immerses us into the idleness of youth. DENALI is a tragic tale of our times. It’s the story of young people wandering through a world of appearances, shaped by their smartphones. It’s the story…
Read moreDennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potter (1935–1994) was an English dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. He was particularly fond of using themes and images from popular culture.
Read moreDEPRÉS DE LA PLUJA
No rain for two years and smoking is banned. On the roof of a corporate building in an unnamed city, employers, employees and secretaries meet for an illicit cigarette. Slowly the roof top scene develops into a whole new world of changing relationships, blossoming love and imminent catastrophe. Sergi Belbel’s…
Read moreDER BÄR, DER NICHT DA WAR
Dramatisation rights. The bear has not been there before but in his pocket, he finds a piece of paper that says: Are you me? Good question he says to himself and goes out into the world to find the answer. He meets The Second Last Adelie Penguin who thinks of…
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A risk controller is tired of his life and work situation and is on the verge of taking his own life. When he starts googling suicide, a state approved supervisor turns up at his door to guide him through the challenges: A government program on trial to prevent overworked and…
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Free adaptation from Morten Korch. Funny and popular entertainment for the whole family … is the best description. The story takes place in a small village society and two large landowners cannot stand one another. The scene is the local inn, where everybody meets to exchange gossip and you watch…
Read moreDER KLEINE PRINZ FEIERT WEIHNACHTEN
It’s Christmas and a crow is roaming around looking for something to eat when a prince falls from the sky. The prince is looking for his friend, the pilot and the poet Antoine. The crow would rather have nothing to do with all this, but has too big a heart…
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There is great joy in the mill pond, because the waterman and his wife have had children and celebrate this with a great feast for all of the relatives. The little waterman soon begins to explore the farthest corners of the mill pond, where he meets many strange creatures, such…
Read moreDER MENTOR
Benjamin Ruben, 65, became a literary star for an early work, but has not managed to write anything similar since. Martin Wegener is a young aspiring writer who has become the voice of his generation. They have both (and only for money) embarked on a weeklong experiment – a mentoring…
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