AMY’S VIEW
This play expands over 16 years and begins with a confrontation between the world famous actress Esme Allen and her daughter Amy’s boyfriend Dominic. She despises the, from her point of view, synthetic film industry that he nurtures. He, on the other hand, finds her kind of theatre outdated and…
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News reaches a pair of penguins that a great flood is coming to destroy the earth and that they are the only two penguins who have been chosen to board Noah’s Ark. They decide, however, to smuggle their friend aboard in a suitcase, and a wild forty-day journey ensues.
Read moreAN EDUCATION
Rainy England of the 1960s: 16-year old Jenny dreams of a life as a sophisticated, Parisian woman, but, in reality, she lives with her parents and attends a girls’ school. When she meets Simon – a charming hedonist and 20 years her senior – and her lust for life arouses…
Read moreAn Eloquent Fugitive Slave Flees to Ireland
An Eloquent Fugitive Slave Flees to Ireland imagines Frederick Douglass’s meditations on freedom and bondage during his historic visit to Ireland. His encounters with white women are particularly complex as they compare how their two nations oppress or empower them.
Read moreAN ENGLISH TRAGEDY
This play is the story of the young British fascist John Amery, who was arrested and charged with high treason in 1945 after making broadcasts for the Nazis. The trial was a sensation at the time, as Amery was the son of Leo Amery, a member of Winston Churchill’s wartime…
Read moreAN INSPECTOR CALLS
Written at the end of the Second World War, and set before the First, An Inspector Calls is a brilliantly compelling and haunting thriller. It is also one of the country’s most popular plays which, in Stephen Daldry’s superb production, has now been hailed by The Daily Mail as a…
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A political sci-fi taking place in Bayern after the revolution has won and a socialistic republic has been proclaimed….
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The scene is Paris in the early 1920s. A female would-be suicide is rescued by Russian expatriate Yul Brynner. Brynner’s motives are far from altruistic; together with a group of Russian cohorts, he hopes to pass her off as Princess Anastasia, the daughter of the late Czar Nicholas. If the…
Read moreAND BJÖRK, OF COURSE…
A black comedy about a self-help group, group therapy and national feeling. In this crazy and spirited play, Thorsteinsson exposes the neuroses and complexes in a group of people who believes in happiness. The play was a great success in Reykjavik and Theater der Zeit announced it to be among…
Read moreAND SO TO BED
A funny and burlesque comedy about Samuel Pepys and one of his amorous adventures like it could be imagined told in his famous diary. This light 17th century pastiche, in which the music is well composed, makes the play an enchanting and special experience.
Read moreAND TELL SAD STORIES OF THE DEATH OF QUEENS
Candy is a wealthy, flamboyant homosexual man who has brought home a young, beautiful heterosexual sailor. After divorcing his husband through 17 years he lacks love in his life and whilst he scuttles about the young Adonis, he turns into the drag he is. The young sailor is looking for…
Read moreAND THE WORLD GOES ROUND
3 F / 2 M Full-length play in two acts 1 Set Featuring favourites from CABARET, CHICAGO, KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN and more, the play is a celebration of the work of the song writing team of John Kander & Fred Ebb. Their collaboration began in 1963 and over the…
Read moreAND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Based on the 1939 Agatha Christie mystery novel, this play takes place on a small island off the English coast. Ten men and women are lured by one Mr. Owen to spend a weekend on the island with him and his wife, but when the guests arrive they find out…
Read moreAND THEN THERE WERE NONE – opera version
Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony…
Read moreAND THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
The play is about fear and negation. Ruby is its hero, Sigfrid and Grandpa its conscience, Clarence and Lakme its victims It is also a play about choice: the choice of evil, which is a constant, over chaos, which is not necessarily a good. It is a tragedy of intelligence
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“WELCOME to the building, God dammit.” COOPERATIVE is the portrayal of a small housing cooperative, where everyone gets along (externally) and is trying to maintain a good atmosphere; despite residents who parties too much (against regulations); despite vigilantes; despite grumblers; despite rats in the basement; despite bicycle shed issues; despite…
Read moreAnders Berglund
Anders Berglund (born 1948 in Stockholm) is a Swedish composer, cunductor, pianist and musician. In the mid 70’s he was a member of the band Blue Swede. He has arranged and written the music for several films and musicals.
Read moreAnders Jacobsson
Anders Jacobson (b. 1963) is a Swedish writer, who has written youth novels and TV-series together with his cousin Sören Olsson. Furthermore the two cousins have written pop music together in their band Hemliga byrån.
Read moreAnders Rønnow Klarlund
Anders Rønnow Klarlund (b. 1971) is a Danish film director. Klarlund made his debut with his experimental film The Eighteens (1996) and in 1999 followed the occult thriller Possessed. In 2004 Klarlund directed the well- reviewed puppet-film Strings, which by others led to his receipt of the Citizen Kane Award.…
Read moreAnders Thomas Jensen
Anders Thomas Jensen (b. 1972) was already interested in film in his early teen-years. In grammar school he met and teamed up with Tomas Villum Jensen and from 1996-1998 he wrote three short films: Ernst and the light, Wolfgang and Election Night, which all were nominated for an Oscar, the…
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Rights available to Denmark only. The republic of Andorra is invaded by totalitarian forces. The populace capitulates to the anti-Semitism of the aggressor and betrays Andri, the foundling son of the local schoolmaster. But Andri it seems is not a Jew at all. Andorra explores the mechanism of racism with…
Read moreAndré Obey
André Obey was a French dramatist. He was born 8 May 1892 in Douai. Between 1931 and 1933 he wrote four plays for the Théâtre de Vieux-Colombier, winning the Brieux prize for LA BATAILLE DE LA MARNE in 1931. He died 14 April 1975.
Read moreAndreas Garfield
Andreas Garfield (1976) is a Danish playwright, who achieved prominence with his debut play “Home Sweet Home,” which was a sensation in 2007 when it premiered at Teater Grob in Copenhagen, a well-known venue for experimental theater and new work. Since then, Teater Grob has toured the play around Denmark.…
Read moreAndrew Bovell
Andrew Bovell was born at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and currently lives in Soth Australia. His SWGIE award-winning play SPEAKING IN TONGUES (1996) has been seen throughout Australia as well as in Europe and the US and Bovell adapted it for the screen as LANTANA (2001). Both the play and screenplay…
Read moreAndrew Hannan
Andrew Hannan comes from Plymouth, England. From 1977 to 1980, he studied music at the Oxford University and has lived since 1983 as a freelance composer, arranger, pianist, musical director and songwriter in Berlin. He worked in Berlin at the Neukölln Opera (“Bizet Lounge – Die Perlen Fischer”, “Cox +…
Read moreAndrew Lloyd Webber
When Sunset Boulevard joined School Of Rock, Cats and The Phantom Of The Opera on Broadway in February 2017, Andrew Lloyd Webber became the only person to equal the record set in 1953 by Rodgers and Hammerstein with four Broadway shows running concurrently. Other musicals he has composed include Aspects…
Read moreAndri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason (1973) is an Icelandic writer born in Reykjavik, who has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays and songs. He is the co-director of the documentary film Dreamland. His work has been published or performed in more than 20 countries. His novel, “LoveStar”, was chosen “Novel of…
Read moreANDROMAK
The Perceval Brothers adaptation of ANDROMAQUE had its German opening at the Berlin Schaubühne, starring Jutta Lampe. The myth’s complicated structure and existential themes seem thought-provoking, since every narrative development leads to disaster.
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9 F / 11 M / Extras 6 Sets Book by Trevor Peacock, Music by Alan Price, Lyrics by Alan Price and Trevor Peacock This exuberant musical, with a delightful score, conjures up the timeless dream world of work shy, beer-swilling Andy Capp, known the world over from Reg Smythe’s…
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A seemingly realistic play which changes genre towards the end, developing into a surreal thriller. Five troubled teenagers are placed in a community home against their will. Mysteriously, one of the girls disappears, then another and finally one of the boys. One SMS hints at suicide. In the end they…
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ANGEL is inspired by the story of a modern legend: a female sniper – the Angel of Kobane – who held ISIS in check for over a year in war-torn Syria, killing more than 100 extremists: A young female law student, Rehana, dreams of becoming a lawyer like William Shatner…
Read moreAngela Betzien
Angela Betzien is a multi award winning writer and a founding member of independent theatre company Real TV; her work has toured widely across Australia and internationally. Belvoir Theatre’s production of Angela’s play The Dark Room won the 2011 Sydney Theatre Award for Best New Australian work and was also…
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A wry, grotesque and tragic-comical story about three generations of the same family, in which incest, violence and alcoholism have been permanent ingredients. Parents and grannies appear in flashbacks from a traumatized past before the two youngest members of the family and thus create the schizophrenic reality which a visiting…
Read moreÄNGLAGÅRD
The musical Änglagård is based on the film of the same name, and just like in the film, the musical starts with the announcement of a death, which causes the main character Fanny to start her search for her roots. Together with her faithful, extravagant companion Zac, she leaves the…
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This absurd monologue takes place in nowhere, where the prison guard Aron impatiently awaits the prisoner sentenced to death – a girl-like female figure. All he wants is to go home and watch an important football match. Premiered at Teater Normlösa på Backstage, Stockholms Stadsteater 1999.
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A riveting portrayal of the relationship between two societal outsiders, a Moroccan immigrant named Ali and an elderly German cleaning lady named Emmi. This is the story about two lonely people who come together in an odd marriage despite the discrimination of their co-workers and the dissociation of their family.…
Read moreÄNGSTLICHEN UND DIE BRUTALEN, DIE
The only connection between the brothers Eirik and Berg is their father, but when he dies they are confronted with their relationship and the need for both of them to change. Stockmann has written a modern chamber play about the dialectic between fear and brutality, slavery and power. The play…
Read moreANIMAL FARM (MUSICAL)
Based on the book by George Orwell. Adapted by Peter Hall. Lyrics by Adrian Mitchell. Music by Richard Peaslee. This musical begins as a young boy takes the novel Animal Farm from his bookshelf and sits by his toy barnyard to read. While he does so, the barnyard becomes an…
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An awkward love triangle is created when a publisher (Howard) encounters a moral speed bump and engages in an affair with an open-minded artist (Harding) while married to a stodgy suburbanite (Loy). Complicating matters is the tendency of the mistress to play the role of unassuming wife while inelegant and…
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This is a most absurd comedy; two drug dealers on the run, Dantly and Burris, have taken refuge in a deserted motel during a snow storm. Here they await the next order from their boss. Then what happens, is that while Dantly is relieving himself with his trousers down around…
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Howard Barker’s Animals In Paradise is an uncompromising look at violence, authority and passion. Known for his distaste for convention and love of ambiguity, Barker’s work spans the distance between two sovereign nations at war: one that eats with forks, and the other with spoons. The students are rioting, the…
Read moreAnisette Koppel
Annisette Koppel (born 1948) is a Danish singer and co-founder of the band Savage Rose which she started in 1968 with the brothers Thomas Koppel og Anders Koppel.
Read moreAnna Jordan
ANNA JORDAN is an award winning, English playwright, director and acting tutor. After graduating from LAMDA drama school she set up her own company, Without A Paddle, now a multi award-winning theatre company and network. Her work has been presented at Royal Court, Royal Exchange (Manchester) and internationally, with several…
Read moreANNA KARENINA (HELEN EDMUNDSON)
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoy’s masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature…it is a novel of social realism that perfectly bares the Russian…
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This adaptation distils Tolstoy’s great novel into extraordinary and gripping drama. Anna Karenina, a married woman falls passionately in love with the devastatingly handsome Count Vronsky. She deserts her husband and child to live with her lover. But as society shuns her, fear and suspicion of Vronsky’s love and fidelity…
Read moreAnna Nygren
Anna Nygren (b. 1990) is a Swedish playwright and screenwriter. She is educated from the writing academy in Biskops-Arnö and has a master’s degree in literature. Through a number of years she worked with children – and youth’s plays in Norrkoping, but is now working in Goteborg as a writer…
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In this play, Jepsen deals with the type of person, who throws himself into the abyss, hoping to be able to fly. More specifically, the person in this play is the manipulator, Anna, who is interested in art. So without any certifications, she simulates having a doctorate and cheats her…
Read moreAnna Simberg
Anna Simberg is a Finnish playwright and the director of Labbet working with new Swedish language drama in Finland. She is the chairman of a working group dealing with equality issues in Swedish-language theatres in Finland and a board member of the Finnish Dramatists’ Union.
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This is the best play of Abell and our best resistance drama too. At superior level the play deals with the Danish politics at the time before the German occupation. Later it appears to be a premonition of the official politics of Danish cooperation during the German occupation. We are…
Read moreANNA WEISS
This is a most gripping and original play about the eternal triangle. It focuses on the 30 years old hypnotist, Anna who is in the process of moving. With her is Lynn, who is in her early twenties and is both her tenant and patient. The atmosphere is rather tense…
Read moreANNAS VERDEN (ANNA’S WORLD)
Spring has come, at last. The light is returning. The light that everyone in Skagen is dependent on, the light that makes artists make a pilgrimage to the small fishing village in Northern Denmark. Anna Ancher is on the verge on her breakthrough on the Copenhagen art scene. But it…
Read moreANNE EN ZEF ( ANNE UND ZEF)
ANNE EN ZEF portrays the fictitious meeting of Anne Frank and an Albanian boy, Zef in the afterlife. Based partially on Anne Frank’s famous diary, the two main characters share an experience of living in fear whilst in hiding, yet both Anne and Zef refused to give up, despite their…
Read moreANNE MARIE GIFT CARL NIELSEN
Inspired by sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, a portrait of the modern relationship is drawn. Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen believed in love. She was the mother of three and wife of the famous composer, Carl Nielsen. But first and foremost she was an artist. Anne Marie and Carl created a new way…
Read moreANNE OF GREEN GABLES
15 F / 11 M / Ballet Full-length musical with 2 acts 8 Sets This is the classic tale about the parentless girl Anne Shirley, who rises from outright poverty to happiness in the countryside, purely because of her own vigour, stamina and persona. During the show we share many…
Read moreANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS
Henry VIII’s obsession with siring a male heir endangers all around him: his courtiers, his government servants, and, especially, young Anne Boleyn. What ensues is both more, and less, than a love story; it changes England forever.
Read moreAnnette K. Olesen
Annette K. Olesen (born 1965) is a Danish theatre and film director trained at The National Film School of Denmark (1987 – 1991). She was nominated for The Golden Bear at the Berlin Film festival in 2002 and has since won several awards for her films.
Read moreAnnina Enckell
Annina Enckell (born 1957) is a Finnish author and dramaturge trained at the Theatre School in Helsinki. Between 1985 and 1993 she worked at the literary department at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki. She has written children’s plays, stage adaptations and has been the dramaturge behind several films. Furthermore she…
Read moreANNIVERSARY, THE
Mother keeps a tight hold on all three of her sons with gifts, threats and ruthless exploitation of their weaknesses. But as the family is unwillingly brought together to celebrate Mum’s wedding anniversary (regardless of deceased Dad), revolt is in the air. One son gathers the courage to tell Mum…
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