TEN TIMES TABLE
The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history based on a somewhat vague event, ”The Massacre of the Pendon Twelve”. But there’s a young left-wing teacher on the committee who decides to turn it into a rally for proletarian revolution. Committee meetings become…
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A witty and original play written with great cleverness and sharp observations. The work follows seven lonely big city people and their search for relationships with other people. In an elegant way, the author lets the characters’ paths cross in a series of short successive encounters that are geographically spread…
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The play is an examination of love between a man and a woman, an immersive and violent love that is closely related to hate and death (tender as napalm). In poetic explorations the two of them share their memories from the past and apocalyptic visions for the future…
Read moreTennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911–February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name “Tennessee” was a name given to him by college friends because of his southern accent and…
Read moreTerence Clarke
After graduating from Sydney University with Honours I in Music, Terence Clarke taught Mathematics for a time. His career has swung between the poles of Music/Theatre and teaching. He composed the music to Nick Enright’s book and lyrics for three musicals: THE VENETIAN TWINS (based on Goldoni’s I due gemelli…
Read moreTerence Frisby
Terence Frisby (b. 1932) is a London-based playwright and novelist, best known as the author of the play There’s A Girl In My Soup. His other stage plays include The Subtopians (1964), The Bandwagon (1969), It’s All Right If I Do It (1977), Seaside Postcard (1978) Rough Justice (1994) Funny…
Read moreTerence Rattigan
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (1911 – 1977) was one of England’s most popular 20th century dramatists. His plays are generally situated within an upper-middle-class background. He is known for such works as The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version and Separate Tables, among many others. He was also a screenwriter, mainly…
Read moreTERMINAL VELOCITY OF SNOWFLAKES, THE
A thought provoking, moving and poetic tale about love and quantum entanglement. Rosie and Charlie meet for the first time at the city park toboggan run at the age of 7 and 9, respectively. As it turns out, their paths will cross several times on different stages of their possibly…
Read moreTerrence McNally
Born in 1939, Terrence McNally would have his first play produced in 1964 at the age of 25. Although several early comedies such as Next (1969) and The Ritz (1975) won McNally quite a bit of praise, it was not until later in his career that he would become truly…
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This is a philosophical play by one of Germany’s leading authors. What happens if terrorists hijack a passenger plane and steer it towards a sold-out football stadium? What happens if terror gets to dominate our everyday life? What legal, moral and philosophical means do our society have in these extreme…
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Theatres all over Europe are throwing themselves at the Siberian Presnyakov-brother’s black comedy Terrorism, which is in the lead of a wave of exciting Russian dramatics. Six grotesque scenarios constitute thus through provoking text about terrorism between people – in a Russian town – where everyone is terrorists and everyone…
Read moreTerry Johnson
Terry Johnson (b. 1955) is a British dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. He is a Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre. At The Court he directed Dumb Show by Joe Penhall and opened his play Piano/Forte. Johnson’s stage work has been produced around the world.…
Read moreTHANK YOU, KIND SPIRIT
In a small shoddy flat, the black woman Mother DuClos houses spiritual séances for a bunch of superstitious people. A woman in the background accuses her of deceit and calls her an alcoholic fake who only wants to swindle money out of people. However, in the midst of the assembled…
Read moreTHAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
5 M Comedy 1 Set In this play, four former class mates gather, together with their old coach, in order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the year when their school was awarded for having the best basketball team; an occasion that has remain a sensation for all of them.…
Read moreTHAT FACE
“This is one of the most astonishing debuts I have seen in more than 30 years of theatre reviewing. Its author, Polly Stenham, just 19 when she wrote a play that sent me reeling into the night […] In every respect this is a remarkable and unforgettable piece of theatre.”-…
Read moreTHE 39 STEPS
A cunningly constructed play based on John Buchan’s famous thriller THE 39 STEPS, which was made into a film in 1935 by Alfred Hitchcock: 1 actor plays the central character Hannay; 1 actress plays 3 female roles whilst 2 other actors perform the other characters. Richard Hannay, a Canadian on…
Read moreTHE ACTRESS
A funny and poignant comedy dramatising the events backstage as a colourful, complicated actress makes her farewell performance, while dealing with unexpected visitors. Drama and comedy collide as they say their goodbyes, declare their love, roar with laughter, spit insults, grab a final embrace, and renew old battles… The play…
Read moreTHE ACTRESS (6-cast version)
A funny and poignant comedy dramatising the events backstage as a colourful, complicated actress makes her farewell performance, while dealing with unexpected visitors. Drama and comedy collide as they say their goodbyes, declare their love, roar with laughter, spit insults, grab a final embrace, and renew old battles… The play…
Read moreTHE ADDAMS FAMILY
Morticia and Gomez Addams are living amongst death, pain and suffering, the way they always have, so the Addams Family is visiting the graveyard for their annual gathering of all family members (living, dead and undecided) to celebrate what is to be an Addams. But then there is a change…
Read moreTHE ADVENTURES OF WOUND MAN AND SHIRLEY
Shirley is a teenage boy with a girl’s name, growing up in suburbia feeling like the weirdest kid in school. Nothing makes much sense to him, and his heart belongs to a classmate who barely knows he exists. ‘Wound Man’ is an unconventional superhero, sprung from the pages of a…
Read moreTHE ANARCHIST
Two egos – two value systems – one finale – one winner. The action takes place in an office in a prison where an inmate, Cathy, stands face to face with the warden, Ann, to discuss her petition for mercy. After 35 years behind bars, convicted for having ties to…
Read moreTHE ANTIPODES
In Annie Baker’s THE ANTIPODES, a group of people sit around a table telling, cataloging, and theorizing stories. Their purpose is never clear: are they brainstorming ideas for a TV show? A film? A mythology? This is a world where ghostly fables co-exist with mundane discussions of snacks and sexual…
Read moreTHE BALLAD OF ROBIN HOOD
This delightful family play is a heady mix of traditional story telling, comedy and stage combat. Set in a medieval tavern in London, a wounded Robin Hood is being held captive by a lone sheriff and the patrons of the tavern argue as to whether to help Robin Hood or…
Read moreTHE BEATROOTS
THE BEATROOTS is a country comedy played out in concert. The work reflects a time when communities are disintegrating, challenged by individualism. It is a tale that extends from a band crisis to the worldwide political crisis. The work portrays the family band The BeatRoots. Originally, they played with the…
Read moreTHE BELOVED
When Abraham returns from a journey with his son, his wife is troubled by the boy’s state of mind. What took place on the mountain that day is the beginning of a lifetime of suffering for his son and the dawn of a new age for millions. A haunting and…
Read moreTHE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE LIVES
One morning the childless couple, Naomi and East, finds a 45-minute-old foundling on their doorstep. Within minutes the boy manages to present himself as Christopher and soon he I capable of dancing, cooking and writing poetry. Throughout the following two hours, the new parents are confronted with the essence of…
Read moreTHE BEST WE COULD
The artist, Ella has a job but no career. Her father has a career, but no job. To save him from the brink of depression, the mother sends them on a road trip across the country, guided by the commenting narrator character Maps, to pick up a dog for the…
Read moreTHE BIG MEAL
An unusual story about an ordinary family: The Big Meal starts at a simple restaurant where Tom and Nina suddenly meet. Sparks fly and an intense journey begins. Through more than three generations and a span of 80 years, we follow a family that descends from Tom and Nina’s chance…
Read moreTHE BLIND WOMAN AND THE WAITER
A playwright (The Waiter) works on a radioplay and creates a female character (The Blind Woman) who he gradually loses control of. Outside this frame, we encounter the author who created the Waiter and controls the soundscape of the piece, i.e. the radio play the Waiter is writing. The Author…
Read moreTHE BLUE PLANET
Far away in space there is a blue planet. On this planet, only children reside and they can do whatever they want to do because there are no grown-ups. They eat when they are hungry, they sleep when they are tired and they play without any disturbances. The children’s favorite…
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This is a modern version of Arthur Schnitzler’s famous ‘Reigen’ that is especially well-known from the 1950’ies film ‘La Ronde’ by Max Ophull. It is a most subtle and capricious comedy about sex at all times and it is most certainly well suited for some star acting by two actors,…
Read moreTHE BOSS OF IT ALL
The owner of a IT company wants to sell. However, there is just one problem: when starting the company he invented a fictive manager to cover up himself when unpopular decisions were to be made. When the potential buyers insist on meeting with “the manager” face to face, the owner…
Read moreTHE BOY WHO KISSED THE SKY
Set in the heart of Seattle’s Central District to the rhythms that shaped a generation, The Boy Who Kissed the Sky, is inspired by the early life and influences of Seattle native and musical icon Jimi Hendrix. The early era of rock ‘n roll music sets the stage as a…
Read moreTHE BRIGHTEST THING
An American Fable that’s tinged with sadness about a girl’s imaginary journey in a hot air balloon to rescue her mother.
Read moreTHE BROKEN MACHINE
In this climate-chaos comic-tragedy, a burnt-out coder has become a hermit in the wilderness, nursing a broken arm and making lists from memory—of endangered species, moments of Lost Time, Incorrect States of Mind—in company with her only friend, a gray fox with a bad attitude. When wildfires approach, they flee…
Read moreTHE CANE
Edward is a teacher retiring after forty-five years of service. But his plans for an imminent celebration to mark his retirement are derailed when current students learn that he used to dish out corporal punishment. Outside, a mob of angry schoolchildren are protesting, preventing him and his wife from leaving the…
Read moreTHE CASTLE
An intelligent adaption of Kafka’s magical and absurd nightmarish novel about the surveyor K who arrives to a village late one night, summoned to work at the castle without ever being in actual contact with the caste’s authorities who are allegedly responsible for getting him there. This is the story…
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A battle of the sexes, a battle for arms and a battle for a national faith. THE CASTLE takes place in a rainy, murky medieval England. The crusaders, under the leadership of knight Stucley, have just returned from the Crusades. Expecting to be welcomed back by their faithful wives they…
Read moreTHE CATERERS
A group of caterers grab quick cigarettes and make snarky remarks about the engagement party they’re working, which seems to be going off the rails. Garcia is taken with Josephine, who says she’s a last minute replacement … or is she the bride-to-be that’s missing from this very party?
Read moreTHE CHALKY WHITE SUBSTANCE
Two haggard male figures meet at the edge of a vast canyon, overlooking a dried-out riverbed, in a future where the fallout from unnamed and uncountable nuclear wars continually floats through the air. It is the chalky white substance that covers the few inhabitants as they scramble in darkness and…
Read moreTHE CHANCE
Marcie has ended in a huge debt after the death of her partner. Her daughter, Jo and her friend Amie, both work in a strip club and one morning they find a purse with a check of $ 300,000 forgotten by a guest: The solution to all of their financial…
Read moreTHE CHERRY ORCHARD (Eric Schmidt)
Madame Ranevskaya, who has spent five years in Paris to escape grief over her young son’s death, returns to her home in Russia ridden with debt. She is obliged to decide how to dispose of her family’s estate, with its beautiful and famous cherry orchard. The coarse but wealthy merchant…
Read moreTHE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS
A moving dramatic monologue in which a teaching brother grapples with personal anguish and a sense of time departed while trying to hold the attention of a class of unwilling students. Revived for Sydney Theatre Company season and regional tour 2003.
Read moreTHE COAST STARLIGHT
A young man armed with a secret that can land him in terrible trouble boards the Coast Starlight, the long-distance train that runs from Los Angeles to Seattle. With the help of his fellow travelers, all of whom are reckoning with their own choices, he has roughly one thousand miles…
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Nassir is an interpreter in an Iraqi torture prison under US command. He is pro-Western, determined to bring free values to his country, and is soon to be married. But when a psychotic prisoner recognizes him, his life develops into a hell. THE COLLECTOR is a gruesome tale of murder,…
Read moreTHE COLOR PURPLE
The Color Purple is an inspiring family saga that tells the unforgettable story of a woman who, through love, finds the strength to triumph over adversity and discover her unique voice in the world. This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (and the popular 1985 Steven Spielberg film)…
Read moreTHE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY
Variable cast size. Minnesota, 1958. Canadian convicts are escaping British Columbia Penitentiary shortly after a priceless diamond has been entrusted to Minneapolis City Bank on the other side of the US border. A grand scheme is carefully planned, but in a town where everyone’s a crook and even security guards…
Read moreTHE COTTAGE
Hilarious Broadway farce about a woman who decides to reveal her affair to her husband and her lover’s wife. Set in a country house in 1920s England. Contains all the means of the genre with comedic situations, mistaken identities and door slamming. Modern farce in classic settings.
Read moreTHE CUT (Mark Ravenhill)
Paul is a completely ordinary man with a shocking secret. At home he is a loving husband and father but at his governmental job he has a special assignment. He sits at the final desk which you must pass if you wish to escape the lust and suffering of this…
Read moreTHE CUT (Mike Cullen)
The good guys wore donkey jackets and had fly-away hair. They talked like a politbureau and hung around in picket lines. The baddies were just as easy to spot too. after all, there was no uglier mob than the Thatcherite hordes of capitalism. Then things changed, and who’s side anyone…
Read moreTHE DA VINCI CODE
Ingenious stage adaptation of Dan Brown’s thriller classic about the Harvard professor Robert Langdon and the cryptographer Sophie Neveu, who, after a murder at the Louvre, becomes involved in a mysterious battle between two fraternal orders.
Read moreTHE DATING GAME
Richard and Julia are in their 50s/60s and recently divorced. Both are beginning to look for new partners by going out on blind dates. The play follows them through a series of unexpected, eccentric and volatile romantic liaisons where absolutely nothing goes to plan. THE DATING GAME is a funny,…
Read moreTHE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
This is a dramatization of the published diary written by the 14 year old girl, named Anne Frank. During the Second World War in Nazi occupied Amsterdam Anne Frank and her family seek shelter in an attic.
Read moreTHE DICE HOUSE
The cult novel, “The Dice Man” by Luke Rheinhart, inspired Paul Lucas to write this clever black comedy which was very successful in Edinburgh and in London’s West End. The psychiatrist Dr. Ratner has founded a treatment home for dice therapy, in which the patients are encouraged to surrender themselves…
Read moreTHE DING DONGS
When a sweet-faced couple shows up on a suburban doorstep, an unsuspecting homeowner finds himself the victim of a surreal home invasion. Using wit and wordplay to mask a more sinister threat, the couple wages a battle over indigenous rights from the living room, and we are asked to examine…
Read moreTHE DISTANCE
Bea has left her husband in Melbourne and has returned to her friends in England. When she makes it known that it is her wish for the two young children to remain with their father in Australia, understanding and support from her surroundings are in short supply. Deborah Bruce improvises…
Read moreTHE DUCK HOUSE
Robert is a greedy Labour MP dreaming of holding a ministerial office. Since the conservatives might win the forthcoming election, he plans to go Tory! The taxpayers are paying most of the expenses of his expensive wife and everything is grand – but then the media starts to show interest…
Read moreTHE DUMB WAITER
Two contract killers are awaiting their next order in a basement that turns out to be a former restaurant kitchen. The most dominating of the two, Ben is having contact to the outside world via an old communication pipe. Furthermore, there is an old food lift that provides them with…
Read moreTHE DYING OF TODAY
The play is loosely based on Thucydides’ account of the destruction of the Sicilian expedition of 413BC, which saw the Athenian army and navy suffering a heavy defeat. The play investigates the bringing home of such news of military defeat, and is set in a barber shop, where a survivor…
Read moreTHE ELEPHANT MAN
Broadway and West End classic from 1977. John Merrick is a deformed man who is exhibited as a monstrosity in a traveling freak show. In Victorian England, he is known as the Elephant Man. When the young and ambitious doctor, Frederick Treves takes him into a hospital in London with…
Read moreTHE EUROPEANS
THE EUROPEANS takes place in war-ravaged Vienna after the Turkish invasion of the late 1600s, during which Christianity and Islam brutally collided. Vienna is now a place where manners have disappeared, women sell their bodies for loaves of bread, and the blood of Turkish prisoners runs free. The Emperor craves…
Read moreTHE EXPERIMENT
Somebody has experimented on a child to find a cure for a fatal disease. The terrible details are shifting and fragmented but, if we all benefit from such experiments, do we really want to face the truth or would we rather avert our eyes as morality is eroded? Staged at…
Read moreTHE FAR COUNTRY
An intimate epic that follows an unlikely family’s journey from rural Taishan to the wild west of California in the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Read moreTHE FARNDALE AVENUE HOUSING ESTATE TOWNSWOMEN’S GUILD DRAMATIC SOCIETY MURDER MYSTERY
This hilarious farce follows the antics of the four redoubtable ladies of The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild as they attempt to present ‘Murder at Checkmate Manor’. This ambiguous and cunning Agatha Christie-style 1930’s drawing room murder mystery requires them to play all 14 roles (aided by their stage…
Read moreTHE FIREWORK-MAKER’S DAUGHTER
A wonderful fairytale play suitable for all ages. In a country, supposedly India, in which fireworks are a style of art, Lila wants to master the fireworks just like her father. However the father wants her to be a dancer and get married. Many adventures follow: Including magical and dangerous…
Read moreTHE FLICK
In a rundown cinema in Massachusetts three younger employees are spending the time by washing floors and operating the last 35 mm film projectors in the state. Their petty conflicts and their heartbreaks unfold among the empty cinema seats and soon appear more poignant and powerful than the lackluster discount…
Read moreTHE FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN
When the quiet, suburban life of Jerry Gorman becomes too much to bear, he attaches four hundred helium baloons to a backyhard lawnchair and take to the sky. Jerry soars and soars…. but will he ever come down? 9 musicians Reed 1 (Flute, Clarinet, Piccolo, Alto Sax) Reed 2 (Clarinet,…
Read moreTHE GIRL IN THE FRAME
A New York appartment gets even smaller as a young couple’s wildest fantaties come to life. A hunky fireman, a tuxedo-clad super-spy, and the seductive “girl-next-door” turn one couples’s cold feet into a fun and sexy parable of modern love. 4 musicians) Reed (Clarinet, Tenor Sax) Piano Bass Drums
Read moreTHE GREAT JHERI CURL DEBATE
Veralynn Jackson knows hair, she knows her neighborhood, and she also knows that the invention of the Jheri Curl marks the end of the world. When she takes a job in Mr. Kim’s Korean-owned Black beauty supply store and the posters start talking to her, Veralynn might finally come to…
Read moreTHE GREATEST PLAY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
A man wakes in the middle of the night to discover that the world has stopped. Through the crack in his bedroom curtains he can see no signs of life at all… other than a light in the house opposite where a young woman in an oversized Bowie T-shirt stands,…
Read moreTHE HARD PROBLEM
THE HARD PROBLEM is exploring fundamental questions of how we experience the world, as well as telling the story of a young woman whose struggle for understanding her own life and the lives of others leads her to question the deeply held beliefs of those around her. Hilary, a young…
Read moreTHE HAYSTACK
A female journalist about to unravel a foreign government’s attempt to influence politicians of the homeland. Unaware that the authorities are monitoring her, she begins a relationship with the intelligence officer who is watching her. Tense thriller about espionage, love and conspiracy in the digital age.
Read moreTHE HEART SELLERS
Funny and deeply moving, the play gives voice to the Asian immigrant experience in the 1970s when the landmark Hart-Celler Act granted thousands of professional workers a new path to citizenship. But for Jane and Luna, life in the USA with their workaholic husbands has left them feeling isolated and invisible. One Thanksgiving—over sips of…
Read moreThe Heather Brothers
John, Lea and Neil Heather, better known as The Heather Brothers, have produced a string of hugely successful musicals, most notably the West End hit A SLICE OF SATURDAY NIGHT starring pop star Sonia and Dennis Waterman, which also toured Europe and Japan. Lust enjoyed a West End run and…
Read moreTHE HOMEMAKER
A 50s kitchen where the radio DJ is playing music on requests. Outside the flood is knocking on the windows. Dinner is secured by opening the door and catching a fish on its way in. Rebecca is dancing while she’s cooking for a family that no longer exists. Three years…
Read moreTHE HOTHOUSE
This play in two acts, takes place in what is seemingly, a mental hospital. The staff refer to it as being a ‘home of convalescence and rest’. The patients are never seen and do not have names but are numbered instead. So the personnel, dressed in grey suits are the…
Read moreTHE INHERITANCE
An epic in two parts, partly inspired by E. M. Forster’s HOWARD’S END. The action takes place in New York one generation after the peak of the AIDS crisis and follows three generations of gay men, some haunted by the past, others hungry for a future. Their lives are randomly…
Read moreTHE INTOUCHABLES
French comedy film hit from 2011. Phillipe is a multi-millionaire who has been paralyzed from the neck down after an accident. Driss is unemployed and a small time criminal who gets the unlikely position of becoming Phillipe’s personal assistant. Despite huge social and cultural differences, they develop a warm friendship,…
Read moreTHE JUNGLE
16 self contained playlets set over 24 hours from dawn to dawn in Sydney. Moving from the streets of Kings Cross to the harbour views of a penthouse apartment, connections are made between characters and situations in bizarre and revelatory ways… an inspector, searching for stolen abalone, is trapped by…
Read moreTHE LADYKILLERS (GRAHAM LINEHAN VERSION)
A new version of the black crime farce from 1955. In a ramshackle house in London lives an elderly lady, Mrs. Wilberforce – also known as mum, with Gordon the parakeet. A string quintet led by Professor Marcus takes lodgings with the elderly lady who looks forward to the company…
Read moreTHE LAST OF MY SOLID GOLD WATCHES
Charlie Colton, a traveling shoe salesman, is a walking relic. After arriving at an decaying hotel somewhere in the Mississippi Delta, he reminisces with the old porter about a world that has already died.
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