SVEND, KNUD OG VALDEMAR
Incredibly funny, classic comedy with songs. Filled with ludicrous situations and absurd comedy. The play is about a travelling theatre company with big ambitions and little capacity. The theatre is run by the pompous Piper who both directs and plays the leading roles, as well as many other activities. No…
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It’s summer in Sweden. Lena and Gustav are leaving town and heading for an idyllic guesthouse on the country. They have planned some romantic days, where Lena isn’t allowed to talk about work and where Gustav can’t mention the word sport! Unfortunately Gustav’s hero, the World Championship winner in 1974…
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Sverre Udnæs (1939 – 1982) was a prominent Norwegian director and writer. He did 19 productions for the television; 11 for the stage; 6 for the radio theatre and did 2 feature films.
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Freely adapted from the novel by H. C. Andersen Music by Børge Wagner This is a fine and imaginative version of the old fairytale, though with a very different ending from the original as it beautifully changes into the story about the Princess on the Pea and therefore ends merrily.…
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Anna has not left her apartment in several months. She does not eat anymore and she is smashing the apartment piece by piece. Rebecca’s ex-partner has found another girlfriend. Now Rebecca is so angry that she turns the anger against herself and is about to drown her sorrows in alcohol.…
Read moreSWAN, THE
Dora Hand lives by herself in a suburb on the Nebraska prairie. She’s gone through three husbands and now seems destined to play the lonely, mistress to her married milkman, Kevin – until a swan crashes into her living room window setting Dora on a harrowing journey. She names him…
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This play holds an immense dramatic force as Williams spares no one, least of all his audience. Everything in this somewhat unsettling, though fascinating drama, comes with an explosive and destructive force.
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Charity Hope Valentine is a naïve and faithful girl, who works as a taxi-dancer at a dance restaurant and inevitably gives away her heart – and money – to the wrong man. We follow her as she sings, laughs and cries her way through various romances, either with ‘the-hero-with-the-uncontrollable-magnetism’, ‘the-super-chic-European-hero’…
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This is a drama about success and failed creativity and identity. We are introduced to Dana – the latest upcoming star in New York. As her success increases, expectations and demands increase with it. When her most recent exhibition flops she gets a nervous breakdown and ends up in a…
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Six young people (Jasper, Dave, Kate, Laura, Nikos and Bird) from all over the world meet each other on a Greek island in the summer of 1983. They spend an incredible time together being adventurous and carefree. 26 years later we meet the six of them again, now they’re all…
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It is the story of three friends who form a musical trio. They start their career in acting at school dances, then get the exposure on a smaller restaurant “Montgomery” where they will be successful. Finally, as a reputable singing trio succeeds for the girls to come to perform at…
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Patricia Highsmith, best-selling author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, is living as a recluse somewhere in the Swiss alps. When she is visited by a young and green editor from her New York publishing house, hoping to convince the terrifying Miss Highsmith to write one last Ripley, their confrontation soon…
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In SYGTSUND we meet the young girl Emilie, who flushes her fat out in the toilet, skips for dear life and starves for five days so she can be ‘perfect’ for her confirmation party. Emilie’s mother, Annette, is working all the time and always has her mobile phone in her…
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The team behind the groundbreaking hip hop interpretation of The Nut Cracker are also behind this equally visionary and riveting transformation of the old Bourneville ballet classic; The Sulphide. There has been no tampering with the storyline. The story still revolves around James, who on his wedding day runs into…
Read moreSylvester Levay
Sylvester Levay began his musical studies at the age of eight. Upon his arrival in Munich in 1972, he met his writing partner, Michael Kunze, with whom he has created many successful theatrical works. From 1980 to 2000 he lived in Hollywood and concentrated on composing film music. He currently…
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Here we follow Greg, who finds an ownerless dog in a park and brings it home. And despite the furious protests from his wife, he decides to keep it and so he names it Sylvia. Sylvia the dog is played by a woman, which adds to the play, both a…
Read moreSYLVIA OCH JANNE – EN MOTVILLIG KÄRLEKSHISTORIA
SYLVIA OCH JANNE – A RELUCTANT LOVE STORY is a musical comedy about the search for love, about being together, to raise a family or not and the hopeless feeling of never finding the right one. Sylvia and Janne are neighbours and are both looking for love. Each in their…
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This is a gripping drama with relevance to today’s global war on the authorities and the mob treatment of the German girls after the end of WWII. The play is based on real events, but at the same time it is a theatrical fiction with a clear message not to…
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Ever since his debut play, Husson has had an interest in out-of-place characters, who represent a victorious goodness in a cruel and miserable world. In this play we get to follow Antonio Fabrizzi – a modern Christ with an unshaken belief in human beings – who, with his somewhat absurd…
Read moreTABLE FOR ONE
A really funny first play played to great acclaim at The Hen and Chicken’s Theatre in Islington. The play is a sparkling comedy about a young food critic, who because he is unknown to the restaurateur is placed at the worst table by the loo. And now all lunacy is…
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This is part of ‘THE NORMAN CONQUESTS’ trilogy. In this play, Annie has arranged to spend an illicit weekend with her sister Ruth’s husband Norman, and for this reason, suitably disguised, has asked her elder brother Reg and his wife Sarah to look after their widowed mother and the house.…
Read moreTAIKANAKSUTIN (SUPERSWITCHER)
Variable cast. 7-year-old Hanna would prefer to be a boy. Her parents think that girls should be like girls and boys should be like boys, so Hanna is not allowed to do all the cool stuff she wants to do. Luckily, she gets a hold of a mysterious ’superswitcher’ –…
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In Centerville, Connecticut, in 1906, the publisher of the “Centerville Globe,” Nat Miller, wins a new fire engine for the town whose citizens celebrate the acquisition. With Nat as he is cheered are his wife, Essie, his sister Lily, and the rest of his family. But as Nat is basking…
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The play tells the story of the young baseball-star Darren Lemmin who is at the peak of his power – both professionally and personally. During a press conference he comes out as a homosexual. This has its side effects once the news spread to the team, the media and the…
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The unquestionable love of a mother for her son is at the heart of this compelling play. 1931. Hans Litten is one of the most celebrated lawyers in Berlin, famed for his brilliant mind and the rhetorical flair with which he defends those fighting back against the rapidly growing Nazi…
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This play is about the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and the processes of de – Nazification. An American major – with images still in his head of the concentration camps which he was engaged in setting free – is Furtwängler’s examining judge. This is a strongly provoking play about artists and…
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Roland, a hard-drinking tycoon, is considering buying an old Victorian house, once a brothel. His solicitor and the vendor, a builder, arrive to complete the deal. Also in the house are his wife, a frustrated dancer who is always considering leaving him, her brother and – later – the brother’s…
Read moreTALE OF THE ALLERGIST’S WIFE, THE
This is a play about Marjorie who has reached her midlife crisis. Suddenly a school friend, Lee, shows up. She has lived a life so interesting that Marjorie soon recovers. This insanely funny comedy’s plot shows us how Lee becomes the catalyst for huge changes in the worn down life…
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A postmodernist bedroom farce, in which an unfortunate set of circumstances compel a married couple to ask two friends, a man and woman who have never met, to inaugurate their newly designed marriage bed. Paradoxically, by the time the play is over, the bed is never used. Thirty-eight scenes alternate…
Read moreTALENTED MR. RIPLEY, THE
An exciting thriller examining the mind of the most dangerous of all antiheroes – the intelligent and charming psychopath. Tom Ripley is a young man with an ambiguous moral and sexual personality. When a wealthy couple who mistakenly believes that he is a close friend of their son and playboy…
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Five people are gathered enjoying a good meal. They have not seen each other for a long time and the atmosphere is good. Ernest and his wife, Stephanie, have invited her brother, Martin and their childhood friend Mary and her boyfriend Donald. The good atmosphere is soon to be changed,…
Read moreTALK TO ME LIKE THE RAIN AND LET ME LISTEN
TALK TO ME LIKE THE RAIN AND LET ME LISTEN is an ode to despair, spoken – almost as monologues – by a pair of lovers in a cheap hotel room. It is a world of pain: the cool purifying pain of isolation and peace, which is a kind of…
Read moreTALKING CURE, THE
“Four and a half years ago Jung was my doctor, later he became my friend and in the end he was my poet, that is to say my lover.” the Jewish Russian Sabina Spielrein wrote in a letter for Sigmund Freud in 1909. Based on diaries, articles and letters, Hampton…
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Written by the inventive author of Beyond the Fringe, Getting On and Habeas Corpus, these six half-hour monologues for middle-aged and older performers are touching and very funny.
Read moreTALKING THINGS OVER WITH CHEKHOV
Jeremy is an aspiring if off-the-wall playwright who draws inspiration from extended conversations with Chekhov. His first play is about to be produced and his ex-girlfriend is determined to star in it. The agony of releasing his play to the sharks of theatre doom drives Jeremy to induce someone to…
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This play contains extraordinary monologues. Idiosyncratic characters amuse, move and frighten, always speaking from the depths of their souls. They include a baton twirler, a fundamentalist snake handler, an ex-rodeo rider and an actress willing to go to any length to get a job.
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Tweetering, pandashrews, and undying giddiness for James Madison — what else could you expect to find at a Miss America pageant? In this hilarious, raucous, all-female “power-play” inspired by Shakespeare’s Shrew, contestant Katherine has political aspirations to match her beauty pageant ambitions. All she needs to revolutionize the American government…
Read moreTamsin Oglesby
Tamsin Oglesby has worked as a Theatre Director and Assistant Director at the Royal Court Theatre, The Royal National Theatre and Studio and numerous fringe venues. She set up Hostage Theatre Productions at the Old Red Lion and was nominated for the 1988 Young Director’s Award and the Charrington Fringe…
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Veteran, workman and foul-mouthed Barry Carson is recovering after a surgery in his knee when Quaker Louise Meriwheather suddenly appears. She’s been hired by Carson’s hated nephew to take care of him until he’s fully recovered. Barry asks her to piss off, which she does in a state of shock.…
Read moreTANGO JALOUSIE – EN MUSICAL OM JACOB GADES LIV
Erik Bent Svendlund is considered to be Denmark’s uncrowned king of open-air performances and with this musical he has portrayed the great Danish composer Jacob Gade who is still frequently played throughout the world, not least because of his TANGO JEALOUSY. It is a truly magnificent show and spiced up…
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A touching Swedish play about love, death and the local traffic… and much more! It is a rhapsodic in dept analysis of the possibilities of friendship, career and marriage, seductively created in a crucible of death-defying black humour and life-affirming heavenly singing, based on a lovely bouquet of classic evergreens.…
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Gert Smith signs up for the Copenhagen super university that is to guarantee their students the best information and place Denmark on the world map. However, it isn’t easy to register and become a student. The name Gert Smith is taken, so he has to settle for the name Gert…
Read moreTANT GRÖN, TANT BRUN OCH TANT GREDELIN
A fine and loyal theatre version of Elsa Besekow’s beloved stories about the two orphan children, Lotta and Petter and the three kind aunts: Aunt Green, Aunt Brown, Aunt Purple and their dog Prik together with many other characters. Liewendahl’s dramatization includes extracts from “Tant Grön, Tant Brun och Tant…
Read moreTANT GRÖN, TANT BRUN och TANT GREDELIN
A fine and loyal theatre version of Elsa Besekow’s beloved stories about the two orphan children, Lotta and Petter and the three kind aunts: Aunt Green, Aunt Brown, Aunt Purple and their dog Prik together with many other characters. Liewendahl’s dramatization includes extracts from “Tant Grön, Tant Brun och Tant…
Read moreTANTALIZING, A
This intriguing mystery by the author of THE WOOLGATHERER is about the attempts of a young, lonely woman to save a tattered and crazy old man, by bringing the once-elegant tramp to her home. Like Rose in THE WOOLGATHERER, she has secrets in her closet and a particular reason to…
Read moreTANTE GRØNN, TANTE BRUN & TANTE FIOLETT
A delightful play based on Elsa Beskow’s beloved books about the two orphans, Lotta and Petter, and their three nice aunts: Aunt Green, Aunt Brown, Aunt Lavender and their dog. One day the children deliver laundry on behalf of the strict laundress Kristin. On their way to the aunts they…
Read moreTANZ DER VAMPIRE
Tanz der Vampire is an Austrian musical with music by Jim Steinman and lyrics by Michael Kunze. It’s The Musical of The Fearless Vampire Killers, and has the same general story, but with several alterations. All in all, it’s a decidedly more raucous, over-the-top experience than the movie, chock full…
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Katrin is an ambitious businesswoman who is tired of with her unsuccessful artist boyfriend Tristan’s chaotic lifestyle. Now she wants to let him go! Straight into this explosive situation her father suddenly turns up with a secret that will change their lives forever …
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This nerve wrecking and psychological thriller explores the inscrutable ways of memory occurring when two former High School buddies meet up in a hotel in their home town after 10 years. Vince has spent most of his time dealing with his anger over Jon stealing his girlfriend Amy, and accuses…
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This nerve wrecking and psychological thriller explores the inscrutable ways of memory occurring when two former High School buddies meet up in a hotel in their home town after 10 years. Vince has spent most of his time dealing with his anger over Jon stealing his girlfriend Amy, and accuses…
Read moreTASTE OF HONEY, A
Behind the human form there is a surprisingly mature philosophy in the comedy. The author’s style is distinctly realistic and completely without illusions but she has interweaved a poetic touch of sensitive teenage dreams. The shabby port-environment is not depressing in itself. The play gives good parts to all the…
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Malcolm’s presentation of a new tasting menu leads to a personal—and very public—debate about cultural appropriation and stolen family recipes when his ex, Paul, shows up to call him out.
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The play is a family drama about incest and abuse as being the false and dangerous understanding of familial love and closeness. Besides all the clichés the play questions the fatal glorification of the idea of the family as being the ideal form of human cohabitate. THE TATOO describes the…
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Peter Næss’ successful dramatisation of Erlend Loe’s praised novel from 1993 TATT AV KVINNEN was a huge success with the audience at the Oslo Nye Teater 2001. The play is a hysterically funny text about power and powerlessness in a relationship and introduces a man who helplessly witnesses how a…
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Fantasy with music about sex, love and illusion in modern Sydney. Published by Currency Press 1976
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This two-hander is an adaptation of the letters between Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper-Chekhova.
Read moreTEA PARTY, THE
The main character in this play is Disson, he is a great manufacturer of toilets and bidets. Additionally, he is fully aware of being somewhat of a weirdo and is due to marry Diana for the second time. She is an upper class lady who is to help him gain…
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10 F / 14 M / 3 Children / Extras Comedy in 3 acts 4 Sets The author of this play also wrote HASTY HEART, THE CURIOUS SAVAGE and LO AND BEHOLD. Additionally, this play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 in New York as well as the New York…
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This is a truly well-written drama, offering good roles for five actors. Diane and Richard, two wealthy young individuals in top positions, have been together for years. However they don’t trust each other. Richard has proposed to her, but she has not accepted yet. When she feels that his love…
Read moreTed (Edward A.) Whitehead
Ted (Edward Anthony) Whitehead (b.1933) is one of Brittan’s greatest living playwrights. His plays include: The Foursome (produced 1971), Alpha Beta (produced 1972), The Punishment (televised 1973), The Sea Anchor (produced 1974), Old Flames (produced 1975) , Mecca (produced 1977), The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife –…
Read moreTed Fetter
Theodore “Ted” Fetter (ca. 1907 – March 13, 1996) was a Broadway lyricist who contributed material to such revues as “THE SHOW IS ON” (1936) and “BILLY ROSE’S AQUACADE” (1939), but is best remembered for co-writing the song “TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE,” introduced in the 1940 musical comedy CABIN…
Read moreTed Tally
Ted Tally is an American playwright and screenwriter, best known for the play Terra Nova and the screenplay for the film THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, which won him the Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Other scripts include WHITE PALACE and BEFORE AND AFTER THE OUTBREAK. After declining to write…
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TEENAGERLOVE is a musical by Ernst Bruun Olsen and Finn Savary from 1962 with popsinger Billy Jack as the main character. It is based on a critique of the entertainment industry’s power in the welfare state. A pop star rejects his “teenage love” Maggi for a plastic maker’s daughter whose…
Read moreTEETH ‘N’ SMILES
sing of the pain. The pain is real.” Maggie Frisby, rock singer and central character in David hare’s Teeth ‘n’ Smiles, says that so often in interviews that her roadies have taken to muttering, “Mostly in the arse.” Beautiful, talented, self-destructive Maggie has amassed a minor cult following in England…
Read moreTELL ME ON A SUNDAY
This is a one-woman tour-de-force about a young British woman’s romantic misadventures in New York City and Hollywood. Overflowing with optimism, she sets out to seek success, companionship and love. But the city is an enormous labyrinth, and her frustrations, anxieties and heartaches make her wonder if her love-seeking strategies…
Read moreTELL ME SOMETHING GOOD
Four tenderly crafted stories of ache and longing examine the most ordinary and disparate of characters in high- stakes moments of self-doubt: some life-threatening, some bordering on life-ending, all life-affirming.
Read moreTEMPLE, THE
Time when money was cheap so long as you had the guts to ask for it. Laurie Blake did and with it he built his Bridges of Dreams. A small debt might have been his problem, but a billion dollar debt was the banks’. It is a ferocious and funny…
Read moreTEMPS DE PLANCK, EL
Around the deathbed of Planck (not the German physician), stands his four daughters in an emotionally heated farewell mood. Nearby stands Sara, Planck’s wife through 42 years, preparing for a life alone. In the oldest daughter Laura (A secretary), Rosa (An actress) and Anna (A hopeful jurist), repressed feelings and…
Read moreTEN MINUTES FROM HOME
The history of one man and an entire country unfolds over three nerve-wracking days, in which Yitzhak Rabin makes a series of controversial decisions that will trigger the Israeli sentiments to this very day. The play examines the unfolding of events in one of the most meaningful crossroads of Rabin’s…
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Shakespeare’s RICHARD II, HENRY IV, HENRY V and RICHARD III are the basis for this mammoth work, which Tom Lanoye wrote together with the director, Luc Perceval. The language has been changed, the cast cut and the characters re-written. It’s a massive piece of theatrical poetry about power and survival,…
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