UNSUNG COLE
Arranged by Norman L. Berman Explicit songs such as ”If Ever Married I’m” (KISS ME KATE), the lovely “After You Who” (THE GAY DIVORCE), and other less known examples from the genius Cole Porter. Some of Porter’s standard works are also included in this unique tribute to one the most…
Read moreUNTER EIS
Paul Niemand, a consultant in his late forties, is sought after through the air port speakers for the tenth time. The gate closes, boarding is completed. Paul hears his name again and again. And he enjoys it. For once, he isn’t efficient. He’s standing completely still. He’s cold. A man…
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Over a weekend, a family and neighbors exercises life in a nuclear bunker. A comedy about the strained attempts to deal with the fear of the worst.
Read moreUP FOR GRABS (LONDON VERSION)
An artdealer decides to make a fortune when one of Jackson Pollack’s pictures are secretly put on sale. During a private auction she plays the wealthy buyers against each other and engages in dirty sex games while the price of the picture increases steadily. A vital comedy of moral depravity,…
Read moreUP FOR GRABS (SYDNEY VERSION)
An artdealer decides to make a fortune when one of Jackson Pollack’s pictures are secretly put on sale. During a private auction she plays the wealthy buyers against each other and engages in dirty sex games while the price of the picture increases steadily. A vital comedy of moral depravity,…
Read moreUPSIDE DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD
D.H. Lawrence in Australia. The famous writer and his German wife spend six months on the New South Wales coast, brawling, squabbling and remembering England – much to the amazement of their conservative neighbours. Winner 1980 Australian Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play
Read moreUrs Widmer
Urs Widmer, born in Basel in 1938 but for many years now an inhabitant of Zurich, is without doubt one of the most significant and versatile talents currently at work in the field of contemporary German-language literature as well as one of the most successful. His sales are invariably in…
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Jealousy and competition is the theme of this children’s play. From her parents, Ursel constantly hears that her brother, who died before she was born, did everything better than she does. No wonder that everything in her head concerns him.
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“Ursula” is a study of sexual love and the mysterious power of virginity based on the tenth century legend of Saint Ursula who undertook a journey down the Rhine in the company of 10,000 virgins to break off a betrothal after a vision of Christ. In Barker’s retelling of the…
Read moreUrsula Krechel
Ursula Krechel (b.1947) is a German writer. Krechel was born in Trier. From 1966 to 1972 she studied German studies, theatre, and art history at the University of Cologne. From 1969 to 1972, she worked as a drama advisor in Dortmund. After 1972, she lived in Frankfurt am Main for…
Read moreUrsula Rani Sarma
Irish-Indian playwright, born 1978. Ursula Rani Sarma studied at College Cork University where her first play TOUCHED was put up. Subsequently, it was received with great enthusiasm at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2001, Sarma staged her own play, BLUE at The Cork Opera House, and Josh Benathan then took it…
Read moreUS AND THEM (DAVID CAMPTON)
A meaningful play that begins with two groups of wanderers looking for a place to settle. They agree to share and mark the line between their territories, then build a small wall. The wall is built higher and then still higher. Suspicion and mistrust grow to the point where the…
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Utiseta is an Old Norse ritual that was used to communicate with the spirits via a connection with the nature. In Lisa Lie’s performative work, Norse mythology is connected with modern culture in a wild feast where Norns, goblins, Persian cats and other creatures take us on an utiseta in…
Read moreUTSIKT TIL PARADISET – EN ELLING MONOLOG
A dense and successful dramatisation of Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s first novel in the Elling-trilogy. His entire life, Elling has lived alone with his mother in a concrete flat somewhere in Oslo. The mother dies and he has the flat all to himself. In an attempt to control the chaotic life after…
Read moreV.I.P. – VOLD BLANDT PIGER
The three tough girls and friends, Maiken, Ditte and Kat, constitute the band VIP. They arrive at the club, where they are to perform, with great confidence and high expectations. Suddenly Ditte gets a black out on stage and their dreams are crushed. “Everything is stupid Pernille’s fault. They will…
Read moreVáclav Havel
Václav Havel (1936-2011) was a Czech writer, playwright and politician. He had his breakthrough as a playwright in 1963 with the play GARDEN PARTY (ZAHRADÍ SLAVNOST). It was followed by MEMORANDUM (VYROZUMÊNI) from 1965, which is one of his most famous pieces. A central theme in his writing is the…
Read moreVADERS EN EIEREN (VIELLELLEICHT WERDE ICH EIN SCHWAN ODER EIER UND ELTERN)
A man has fallen in love with a woman and swims behind her across the Atlantic. Although it is not yet spring they decide to make an egg together. After the egg is laid, they go fishing. Nothing comes out of it, but next year they’ll try again.
Read moreVAGABONDERNE PÅ BAKKEGÅRDEN
Many Danes warmly remember Poul Reichhardt singing ‘Are you in contact with the birds in the sky’. When mentioning the name Morten Korch, the talk is about true Danish popular comedy. Furthermore, in this stage adaptation, several wonderful songs from the Danish film treasure that are known by all Danes…
Read moreVAGRANT TRILOGY
The Vagrant Trilogy consists of three plays: The Hour of Feeling, The Vagrant, and Urge for Going. In part one, The Hour of Feeling, (1967) we meet Adham, a hot young scholar back from university in Cairo, readying himself to go to London to give a talk. He marries a…
Read moreValerie Vigoda
VALERIE VIGODA (Co-Author – Book, Music and Lyrics) is the founding member of GrooveLily. Originally from McLean, Virginia, Valerie is a classically-trained musician, honours graduate of Princeton University, and former Army lieutenant. She has toured the world with Cyndi Lauper (opening for Tina Turner and Cher), Joe Jackson and the…
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Mørkeby’s remake of Wagner’s Valkyrie; The play is about Brunholde and Siegmund, who are expecting a child and have recently moved into their new house. “We’re building a home” Siegmund says – “We’re building a war”, Brunhilde says. Valkyrien is a story about love as a life-giving and destructive power!…
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Against the backdrop of post-Apartheid South Africa, Athol Fugard conjures up the plight of ordinary people. A timeless story of the old, fearful of change, and the young, yearning to run into the future. This is the moving story of a grandfather’s love for his dutiful grandchild. He wants her…
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This is a beautiful and most gripping fantasy, spun around the Norwegian pianist and authoress, Dagny Juell and her husband, the Satanist Stanislaw Przybyszewski. Also present is the naïve son of a millionaire, Wladislaw Emeryk, who blindly worship the couple, with fatal consequences and all because of his strong passion…
Read moreVALTOZAT ÓDIPUSZRA (VARIATION AUF ÖDIPUS)
Three actors play variations on the Oedipus story to find out how it could have been in reality.
Read moreVAMOS A CONTAR MENTIRAS
Julia is a woman who spends her days telling lies, which she claims to be the result of her monotony and boredom. She continuously creates wrong situations, that have made life a nightmare for her husband and all the people who gets involved. One Christmas Eve, a thief breaks in…
Read moreVAN DRIE OUDE MANNETJES DIE NIET DOOD WILDEN
One day, three old men, Dietrich, Lothar and Oliver, receives a letter saying that they will soon die. They are upset because they are not yet finished with life. They still have to ride on camels through the desert, climb the highest mountains, eat more breakfast, quarrel, experience love, clean…
Read moreVANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
Riffing on some of Anton Chekov’s most time-tested themes, Christopher Durang proves in his hysterically funny and surprisingly affecting new romp, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, that whether you’re in 19th Century Russia or 21st Century Pennsylvania, the human condition never changes. Step-siblings Vanya and Sonia have never…
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The soldier, Leo, is an expert in carrying out torture. He is currently admitting new recruits, including Albin, who is keen on pursuing his education, assisted by the helper Stephan. In the center we find the tortured, the woman Noah, who’s being tortured by her own free will. But it…
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Rousku and Raninen drag paint cans and wallpaper around the stockroom of a paint store. Rousku supplements his income by stealing and selling goods, but management is beginning to notice odd disappearances. On top of this, the salesclerk Karita is pregnant and blackmailing Rousku: take responsibility for the child or…
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Chamber music for 9 players and 6 instruments The search for love and fulfilment. Sydney, 1982. Three generations of Australian women: the oldest, a cellist, finds a violinist to accompany her in duets; the middle one, Meg, is a successful shopfront lawyer and single parent of a 17-year-old girl; each…
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The author and Nobel Prize winner, Abel Zorko, leads a secluded life on an island in the Norwegian circumpolar ocean. He is visited by the young journalist Erik Laursen, who has been granted permission to interview the shy author, for the first time in ages. At first, Zorko wipes the…
Read moreVassilij Sigarev
Wassily Sigarew was born in 1977 in Werknjaja Salda near Swerdlowsk in the Urals. He studied biochemistry in Nischni Tagil, but applied for a place at the Nikojai Koljada’s course of scriptwriting at the Institute of Theatre in Jekaterinenburg. Sigarew was accepted and he turned out to be one of…
Read moreVATER UNSER
VATER UNSER is the first play of the Austrian award winning film director, Ulrich Seidl. It premiered at the Volksbühne in Berlin and deals with questions of faith and how a bunch of souls attempt to build a personal relationship with God. The story takes place in the prayer room…
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Felix is young and on the run. He rebels against his surroundings and believe that he is son of the sun god. Felix goes in search of his father, but finds only remnants of a patriarchal society. Cruel and absurd father figures stand in the way and must pay with…
Read moreVÆNGJASLÁTTUR Í ÞAKRENNUNUM (WINGBEAT ON THE ROOFTOPS)
Stage adaptation rights available In 1983, Gudmundsson published a second novel, Vængjasláttur í þakrennunum (Wingbeat on the Rooftops), a portrait of a world of creativity and freedom which is gradually forced into submission. Boys in a suburb of Reykjavík “give their thoughts wing” to create a private world where life…
Read moreVÆRELSE MED SOL
Three stories unfold in the same room of the same house during the span of one hundred years: past, present and future. In part one a man gives the house to his daughter-in-law on condition that she goes to bed with him. Her revenge is his doom. In part two…
Read moreVED BENT OG KIRSTENS SØLVBRYLLUP
A sophisticated musical that, with the silver wedding in an ordinary Danish family as a frame, is made to take place in both the present as the past, during the party and several other places. Through this, some of the most important events – both in society and within the…
Read moreVEM HAR INTE DRÖMMAR
Musical in one act who in form of satire tells the story of three young peoples search for a job in spotlight. Along the way they have it out with their parents, their heros, love, betrayal and in the end they make it.
Read moreVENETIAN TWINS
This musical romp is based on Carlo Goldoni’s celebrated comedy of mistaken identity: twin brothers let loose on one mad day in Eighteenth Century Verona. The double central role is a gift to a bright young comedian. One of the female roles requires a good coloratura soprano. Published by Currency…
Read moreVENT DES PEUPLIERS, LE
The story takes place in an old people’s home, in which three soldier veterans, Gustave, Philippe and Henri spend their time, discussing on the terrace. According to themselves they have been quite important in their active lives, but now, life seems to bore them. Something has to happen and instead…
Read moreVENTEROMMET (THE WAITING ROOM)
The action takes place at the doctor’s where 4 different women are waiting to speak to the doctor (who herself is ill): Margrethe (89), who struggles with a failing memory; Heidi (42), who has filled herself with botox; Ingeborg (39) who wants a child; and Randi Beate (50), who needs…
Read moreVENUS IN FUR
A dazzling play based on one of literature’s most infamous erotic novels. ”Venus in Furs” takes you behind the scenes to an audition for a play in which the lines between fantasy and reality, seduction and power, and love and hate blur.
Read moreVERBINDLICHEN DANK
The action in this historical drama takes place between 1939 and the end of World War II. It focuses on Anna Sperber, who is earning her living as a toilet lady on the main train station. Around her is her leftist brother, a frivolous cousin, a Jewish doctor and an…
Read moreVERBRECHEN UND STRAFE
The play takes place in a casino the night before Raskolnikov confesses the double murder. In his adaptation for the Theater Neumarkt in Zurich, Tim Krohn has concentrated the action in Dostoevsky’s great novel to the spatial and temporal. In a clear, hard language, the Swiss writer connects the problem…
Read moreVERDEN BAG VÆGGEN
Nine-year-old Maria is an adopted child and she lives with her parents Morten and Birgitte in a flat where everything has been arranged in an orderly manner. Maria’s peculiar friend Thomas lives upstairs in a messy flat. He plays the guitar and sings songs. Maria wishes to be a princess…
Read moreVERHÖR DES LUKULLUS, DAS
A radio play written in 1939 before the outbreak of the Second World War and while Brecht exiled in Sweden. General Lukullus is given a pompous funeral in Rome amid the comments of the soldiers, slaves, and women who have suffered through his wars, and of the businessmen who have…
Read moreVERHÜTEN & VERFÄRBEN
Antonia is still in school. She wants to be a singer. She is pregnant. Thousands of thoughts and feelings go through her. Nothing is as it was before. Also the friendship with Caro and Lynn falters. Antonia plays through all play opportunities in the new situation and comes to surprising…
Read moreVERLETZTE JUGEND – DREI DURCHWACHTE NÄCHTE
In “Verletzte Jugend” Richter uses “Unter Eis” for making a contrast study of three hard-working and efficient men. The story is played out as a long nightly gathering between three friends, who meet in their old apartment, where they once to lived together. What has happened to all their dreams,…
Read moreVERONIKA DECIDE MORIR
Veronika is young, beautiful and much admired. She goes out with her friends and admirers, has a steady job and a family that loves her. However, something is still missing in her life. November 1997 an early morning, she decides that she wants to die. Shortly after an overdose of…
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The nationalist revolution is on the march. The old patriarchal family is experiencing a renaissance as the nucleus of a backward-looking ideal of order and security, of culture and civilization. The class struggle that was repressed in the social unconscious seems to be returning as a cultural struggle from the…
Read moreVERRÜCKT NACH TROST
“One of the most profoundly moving new plays I have seen in a long time” (New York Times). The story of the orphaned siblings Charlotte and Felix from the first to the last kiss: From a play as mother and father on the beach to the last act in a…
Read moreVERSTÖRUNG, DIE
The most freezing Christmas night ever. A little boy awaits his parents in the airport where an older woman is looking for her son. A psychiatrist tries to assist his patient in regaining control over his life whilst his own life is a complete mess. Three actors attempt to grasp…
Read moreVERSUNKENE KATHEDRALE, DIE
A young couple have barely returned from honeymoon before a verbal conflict ends in a disaster that freezes them into ice. From this basic situation, Jonke leads his audience into the distorted world at a sanatorium where the elderly says goodbye to their paralyzed youth. One day, the sea of…
Read moreVERTEL MEDEA VERTEL (ERZÄHL MEDEA ERZÄHL)
An adaptation of an antique material. Pauline Mol portrays adult behavior from the child’s perspective as they ask their mother, Medea, to explain how tragedy became her.
Read moreVERTICAL HOUR, THE
“In combat medicine, there’s this moment … after a disaster, after a shooting-there’s this moment, the vertical hour, when you can actually be of some use.” Hare’s play premiered on Broadway in 2006 starring Julianne Moore as the American Nadia Blye, a former war correspondent who now teaches political science…
Read moreVERWANDTEN, DIE
A wicked farce about a family reunion that develops into a grotesque nightmare.
Read moreVEST FOR EDEN
A group of old friends, who graduated in 1975, are gathered with their respective partners at the yearly garden party. Everything is blissful. Or is it…? Before sunrise, several occurrences have taken place underneath the apple trees. Somehow nothing has changed and yet nothing is quite as it used to…
Read moreVETERANS, OR, HAIRS IN THE GATES OF THE HELLESPONT
“Veterans”, based on his experience of co-writing the film ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, about the poor state of the British Army’s leadership during the Crimean War, as witnessed by a relatively competent officer, Captain Louis Nolan, is one of Charles Wood’s major contributions to British drama. Sir John…
Read moreVETSERA BLOMSTRER IKKE FOR ENHVER
A paraphrase of Mayerling Incident, the double suicide that took place in 1889 at the Imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods , where the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf shot himself and his nubile mistress, Mary Vetsera. The story is dramatized and filmed several times and has the…
Read moreVHS VS. BETAMAX
The year is 1979. Axel and Tommy have decided to start a home video rental store. Axel is the quality-conscious schoolteacher with a great love for French movie-classics and the Betamax format, while Tommy is convinced that VHS and more plain movies are the future. As Tommy manages to create…
Read moreVI FALLER INTE!
What happens when we manipulate our bodies and physical existence? What if we lose our soul in the process, without even knowing what we’ve lost? How does a modern woman become a mother without sacrificing any of her precious time and without her body becomes deformed? In her desperation, she…
Read moreVI PÅ SALTKRÅKAN
Astrid Lindgren’s well-known children’s book in an adaptation for open-air theatre. The story is set during a few summer months in 1964. It deals with the Stockholm family Melkerson as they are on a holiday on the little island of Saltkråkan (The Seacrow Island): Mr. Melkerson and his four children.…
Read moreVIA DOLORES
Dolores is a clear-sighted scientist specializing in pain. She has her own theory about pain and about the human ability to control pain with willpower. She enters the cellar to get her mourning. Her sister Felicia has passed away, but Dolores desires to keep away the memory about the dead…
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This is a deeply fascinating monologue which David Hare wrote to himself after a journey to Israel and Palestine. Without taking party, he narrates his meetings with several different people from the two camps. Hare acclaimed great success for his performance of ‘himself’. However, this outstanding text is also accessible…
Read moreVICTIMES DU DEVOIR
A couple enjoys a quiet evening at home in their Parisian apartment where “nothing ever happens,” when a detective enters, claiming that he is trying to track down the previous tenant. What starts as a simple interrogation quickly becomes a mind-bending journey.
Read moreVICTOR OU LES ENFANTS AU POUVOIR
If placed next to UBU ROI this play is a classic in the genre of surrealistic theatre. The main character is Victor, who is nine years old and 181cm tall. It is his birthday, at which he takes the opportunity to de-mask his parents and other grown-ups from the face…
Read moreVICTOR/VICTORIA
The film director Blake Edwards who is behind this stage adaptation has based the musical on one of his own films, Victor Victoria. It is the story about a female singer who becomes a man in order to perform as a drag queen in nightclubs around Paris. Then one day,…
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A trilogy in one play, Victoria is set in 1936, 1976 and 1996, and tells the story of three generations of rich and poor in the Scottish Highlands. Grasping the huge theme of the spilt in the country’s culture between puritan repression and libertarian openness, it revolves around three different…
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This play covers the fatal love story between two Nordic geniuses: the Swedish author Victoria Benedictsson and the Danish critic, Georg Brandes. Based on Victoria’s diaries, Símonarson opens the doors to an ardent love affair build on spiritual and bodily dominion – as well as passionate ideas about liberty, art…
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A radio dialogue between a taxicab driver and his dispatcher. The two characters speak the same language, but make so little sense of each other’s meaning that a simple transaction becomes a painful, existential struggle.
Read moreVICTORY
‘Victory’ is a comic, bawdy and passionate play set in the chaos of the Restoration in 1660. Bradshaw, the widow of a Republican intellectual, discovering the fate of her husband’s body, sets out on a journey of personal exploration which brings her into a number of different worlds, including the…
Read moreVIEL GUT ESSEN
Migration, gay marriage, organic vegetables, gentrification, feminism, Euro crisis, social media … In the midst of all this stands an ordinary desperate heterosexual middleclass father in his mid-40s. He has realized that he is not on the winning team in the present reality, and Sibylle Berg leaves him bitter to…
Read moreVIEUX CARRE
The highly autobiographical work is set in a dilapidated boarding house at 722 Toulouse Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the late 1930s. It focuses on a nameless, newly-transplanted, innocent, aspiring St. Louis writer who is struggling with his literary career, poverty, loneliness, homosexuality, and a cataract.…
Read moreVIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, A
This is a compelling and exciting drama that delves into such issues as love, obsession, manliness and justice. It’s the story of Eddie, an illiterate longshoreman, and his anger towards his niece’s affection for an illegal immigrant staying in his house. The complicated relationships between them and many other characters…
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