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A family gathers over a weekend to say goodbye to the matriarch Esther, who suffers from ALS. With the help of her husband Poul and with her children’s approval, she has decided to commit assisted suicide by the end of the weekend before the disease worsens. As the moment grows…
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Sabine’s son, Philip, has travelled to Syria in order to fight for IS. The police believe to have evidence. Together with her mother and her Arab neighbour, Magda, she sets out to find the truth about him. Disguised in burkas seeking out the local mosque and imam whose son, Mustafa,…
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Harald is deeply grateful for the benefits of the welfare state. He lives alone, playing wretched violin as a hobby, and has a light job as a custodian at Thorvaldsen Museum, where he is trying to protect the ancient treasures from pokemon-hunters. Additionally, he strives to live a quiet life,…
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A warm-hearted comedy about politics and friendship and the relationship between two former political opponents: A social democrat and a conservative, who have now become summer house neighbors. Can, by agreement with Adde Malmberg, be adapted so that the text can be performed with two female actors or a female…
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The story by Walsh Ed Thomas (GAS STATION ANGEL) takes place inside one man’s head in which four characters R1, R2, R3 and R4 portray different elements of his personality. Constantly they converse; revive past conversations and generally attempt to understand how and why Ray is in a hotel in…
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Set against the backdrop of a circus, it focuses on Littlechap, whose first major step towards improving his lot is to marry Evie, his boss’s daughter, after getting her pregnant out of wedlock. Saddled with the responsibilities of a family, he allows his growing dissatisfaction with his existence to lead…
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This fairy tale comedy is a vital play based on a series of classic children’s stories. The result is a fiery and franticly hilarious story filled with murderous whims and surprising intrigues. We are introduced to the ferocious Big Bad Wolf who becomes a single provider after accidentally swallowing his…
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This incredible allegory is inspired by Fo‘s 1975 trip to China. The play is a dramatic monologue that tells the story of a revolutionary Chinese solider wounded during Mao‘s Long March and left to die by his comrades. Nursed back to health by a mother tiger, he returns to civilization…
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Two married couples meet by chance in an empty beach hotel. For the first time they are forced to face the absurdity and loneliness of their mundane existence. Summer after summer they return, drawn to each other and to the feeling of freedom of their newfound, isolated world. “The Beach”…
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Streamers are hapless parachutists who streak to their death because of unopened parachutes. In a barracks are three young, different and individually-realized soldiers. One is a young intellectual another is a street-smart Black and the last, a homosexual. Friends at first, their lives are changed and in various ways destroyed…
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This Pulitzer Prize winner is a panorama of the comedy and tragedy of daily life played to the accompaniment of rumbling elevated trains and the tooting of whistles. Though this remarkable play is primarily a slice of life in a poor neighbourhood, it is held together by a strikingly dramatic…
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Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece has been the source of controversy since it was written years ago. It is the story of the fallen Southern belle Blance Dubois, whose desperate illusions of grandeur are rent to shreds by her earthy and realistic brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Touching on issues of…
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On New Year’s Eve, an over-worked and under-inspired single guy who’s had enough of holiday cheer makes a resolution: to stay home and go to bed early. On another New Year’s Eve, a continent away—and more than a century earlier—Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Match Girl tries unsuccessfully to sell her…
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A last photo shoot has been arranged for the top model Loni. Following the shoot she intends to disappear with her beloved Pablo never to see any of the gang again, neither her friend, the make-up artist Esp nor her former lover, the star photographer Dipper. But Dipper has other…
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Age 40: Sensible and predictable or hostile and bankrupt or attractive and future-proof? Two women draw up their lives. Do they have one foot in the grave or are the 40s the new 30s? In amazing monological confessions, they reason about their childhood, youth and adulthood, about the deep divisions…
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This play premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre. A female impersonator, a love struck repo man and a lesbian journalist cross America in search of fame. “Kaleidoscopic and hugely accomplished dissection of fate, love and chance” (Independent)
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A woman wakes up in the apartment of an unknown man. She doesn’t know what happened. Has the man really saved her from death as he claims? Or has he given her something anaesthetic and raped her afterwards? Have they met before? How is it all connected with the plays,…
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April 11th 2003, whilst Bagdad was exposed to lootings after the invasion, the American minister of defence Donald Rumsfeld, held a press conference in which he said: “Stuff happens… and it’s untidy, and freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.”…
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In a home as busy as a railway station during peak hour, Irene and Harry and their three children, as well as the grandparents, live together. The action never stops: people call incessantly on the phone and at the door, and all the while there is a flow of white…
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A comedy set aboard on a British nuclear sub that tells of an anarchistic youth and his attempts to get discharged from the British Navy. His attempts backfires with hilarious consequences, until he is forced into one final bid for freedom.
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This is a comedy based on generation gaps in an English middle class family. It offers fantastic parts to an elderly married couple, who has had to compromise in life and a couple of young idealistic revolutionaries.
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Caroline marries an unemployed actor, Kevin, whom she supports while he flirts with women and spoils her flat with his oafish behaviour. Eventually he seduces one of her pupils and Caroline throws him out. Miserably isolated, she goes to dinner with Jilly and Ivor and meets Matthew who appears eminently…
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The parking lot of a mini-mall convenience store is the private domain of three men in their very early twenties: Jeff, Buff and Tim. Jeff is a sometime student, Buff an easy-going party animal, and Tim a virtual alcoholic Air Force veteran. They talk trash, harass Nazeer, the Pakistani owner…
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This is Julien Green’s first stage work to which he was inspired by Louis Jouvert. However, he is likely to be better known for his translation of the literary work, MOIRA. The play takes place in the in the South of America in 1861, on the day before the Civil…
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This is a true story about the time and the world we live in.’ Williams has made it seem true – or at least curiously and suspensefully possible – by the extraordinary skill with which he wrings detail after detail out of a young woman who has lived with horror.…
Read moreSue Townsend
Sue Townsend is the creator of Britain’s best loved and bestselling diarist, Adrian Mole. She was born in Leicester in 1946, is married and has four children and five grandchildren and still lives in Leicester. In 1978 she joined a Writers Group at the Phoenix Art Centre in Leicester and…
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This is the musical version of the hit movie SOME LIKE IT HOT starring Marilyn Monroe as Sugar. It all takes off when the two, still unknown, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a gang massacre in Chicago. Knowing they are in trouble, they disguise themselves as two women belonging to…
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It is 1942 and two of Hollywood’s greatest divas arrive at the luxurious Palm Beach royal Hotel with assistants, luggage and a deadly feud on tow. Everything appears to be in place for the evening’s show…until it turns out that the ladies have been allocated the same suite. Overblown egos,…
Read moreSUMMER AND SMOKE
The play is a simple love story of a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor. Each is basically attracted to the other but because of their divergent attitudes toward life, each over the course of years is driven away from the other. Not until toward the end…
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The play takes place in a holiday cottage near a lake. An eccentric mother and her sensitive teenage son have fled from the big and busy city with their maid. It seems the father has left them and that the house, the son’s retreat, is to be sold. The son…
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It is 1962 and the world is worried about the Cuban missile crisis, except for Lewis, a youth on the cusp of manhood, growing up in a Melbourne housing commission suburb. He is preoccupied by flying saucer, much to the disgust of his friend Brian who can think only of…
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4 F / 3 M This play has been written out of the author’s heart and soul because he had something that he passionately wanted to say. This compelling Australian play is a vigour, integrity, and faithful portrayal of an unfamiliar scene. It tells of two itinerant cane-cutters: Barney, a…
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On Christmas Day 1945 a stranded tent-show troupe reach a drought-stricken outback town. Before they leave on New Year’s Day, many lives are changed. A romantic musical comedy featuring memorable lyrics by Nick Enright and beautiful music by Terrence Clarke. Revived by Sydney Theatre Company in 2005 starring Genevieve Lemon…
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Broadway drama set during the 200th anniversary of America’s independence which follows the friendship between two very different mothers, the rebellious artist Diana and the free-spirited Alice. Insightful and engaging play about motherhood and ambition and helping each other discover one’s own independence. (Manhattan Theater Club).
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In early 2014, Somnimag, a small technology company has developed a revolutionary brain scan machine, but has difficulties with finding a buyer. Soon the company directors are faced with a moral dilemma: is doing business with Putin’s Russia a viable option? Olli, the CEO, is caught between a rock and…
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About the social topic of surrogate-mothers: Sally is a young woman living in the industrial dormitory-town of Sunderland, who will suddenly find herself unemployed and will have to face both threats of poverty after her mother’s death, and of the loss of her little sister’s custody … Until she finds…
Read moreSune Vibæk Svanekier
Sune Svanekier (b. 1967) is a Danish writer, actor and director trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (1995). Together with Peter Spies and Thomas Høg he created and co-wrote the smash hit musical “Atlantis” (which he has directed on many occasions, for instance the original production in…
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The garden of an Australian country estate, the sixtieth bithday celebrations of patriarch and scientist Clarrie Shelton, the “tribal get-together” of the family, the comings and goings of their friends and relations over an Easter weekend that begins at twilight and ends at sunrise. In this foreboding atmosphere of privilege…
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Based on Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 film noir, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard is the dramatic story of Norma Desmond, a fading star of the silent film era who has retreated to her decaying mansion to live in the past. When the ambitious young screenwriter Joe Gillis stumbles into her…
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2 F / 5 M This play is a timeless show biz comedy. Al Lewis and Willie Clark played vaudeville as a team for forty-three years, but mutual dislike has kept them far apart for the last eleven years. Now CBS wants them to appear in History of Comedy and…
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Nicklas and Rebecka’s father has chosen to leave the family in favour of a younger woman he has made pregnant. As he arrives to say his goodbyes, the son knocks him unconscious, ties him up and throws him into a coffin where he becomes the victim of the children’s ridicule…
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Julie and Alban are in love and superstitious. One evening, they swear ten years of fidelity to each other, on the heads of their children. After 9 years, 11 months and 15 days, each of them prepares for the arrival of the fateful date. Between bad faith, lies, good conscience…
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3 M Drama in 2 acts and epilogue 1 Set In 1974 the author of this play visited the deserted mine town, Madrid in New Mexico and it is his tragic memories from that experience, which inspired him to write this melancholic ballad.
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A top flight insurance salesman is horrified when his girlfriend suggests they take up roller skating as he thinks the risks of injury are high. Even leaving home has its risks as he should know with the job he does. So Liz, the girlfriend conspires with his mother, aunts and…
Read moreSusan Cooper
Susan Cooper has been writing for over 30 years. In this time she has written numerous newspaper articles, books for children and adults, screenplays for TV, the cinema and a Broadway play. As a writer she is hard to classify, what is universally accepted is that she is a writer…
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SUSAN DILALLO (Book and Lyrics) is a recipient of the coveted Kleban Foundation Award, given annually to “the most promising librettist in musical theatre,” as well as a 2008 Jonathan Larson Award. She wrote book and lyrics to an original comedy, ONCE UPON A TIME IN NEW JERSEY, which won…
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Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was an American essayist, writer, left-winged intellectual and activist.
Read moreSUSANNAH’S DREAMING
A lyrical one-act radio play full of the sounds of the sea and of fishermen, the dreams of both mother and daughter are destroyed. Published by Currency Press 1981
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Two window cleaners in their 20s meet on the outside of a skyscraper. Benjamin has just been hired for the job by Isaac and now he realizes, that his new employer is his childhood friend (they’re both refugees from a civil war). But the two of them didn’t part on…
Read moreSuzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1964) is head of department at Cal Arts manuscript course and has written several works of drama, which spring from sociological problems in the Afro-American universe. Her characters are often placed in situations of symbols or allegories, where humour is mixed with tragedy. THE SINNER’S PLACE (1985),…
Read moreSuzanne Brøgger
Suzanne Brøgger grew up in Sri Lanka and Thailand and studied Russian at the University of Copenhagen. She worked as an actress, journalist, and war correspondent before writing her first novel in 1973. Brøgger’s work often explores the nature of love, family, and relationships. In addition to plays, her work…
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Orchestra crew: Piano, Violin & Cello Charles lives with the weirdo Eva. Carlo lives with the teacher student Jane. Karl Göran is moving in with the young and innocent Julia. What the women do not know is they are all with the same man! Eva discovers the double play and…
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