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Four children are playing house at a playground. They are all trying to outdo each other in what they have and own. One of the boys gets excluded because of his father being in prison. The prejudices escalate with their playing…

It is 1943 and everything is as usual in the French Café René. That is, up and down. Because the thing for René is at all times to keep on a good footing with the German occupation in order to avoid problems. He has to deal with his wife, Edith…

An aggressive rework of Chekhov’s UNCLE VANYA, which begins with a climax, when Vanya comes in with a gun. In this version the shot doesn’t miss. A tragicomic version that comments upon the effects of the assertion of individuality, instinct and the will to live.

Extensive textual material consisting of 100 individual scenes about women and children who in some way have a connection to the justice system. Directors are free to choose which scenes they want to work with and in which order.

[sic] is Latin and is used in connection with quotes and indicate words that are either spelt or used wrongly. The author portrays three young big city youngsters’ communication problems and mutual misunderstandings: Theo is a composer and has to write a commercial jingle for a new rollercoaster in an…

The idealist Jeanne crosses the frozen lake to bring some of the gold from the wealthy on the north coast to the underprivileged on the south coast because she has heard that the rich will get more and the poor less now that the climate crisis is drying up the…

Heiner Müller was a complex, cleaver and mysterious person. Through a séance Thomas Oberender has asked Müller’s friends and enemies 100 questions about the man behind the myth. The text is a polyphonic and complex portrait of a complex man.

Can you tell the difference between a genius and an idiot? If the world treats the genius as an idiot, it can be difficult for the genius to tell the difference. Especially if the genius is a 12-year-old child. In 12 little concentrated scenes, Howard Barker presents the boy Kisster.…

In this play with broken songs, Shakespeare’s Ophelia rises out of the water dreaming of reclaiming her life. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is a Rude Boy and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold…

A spade. A cup and saucer. A medal. A pair of shoes. A rattle. A camera. A ring. A painting. A pair of spectacles. An urn. A postcard. A bucket. A drum. 13 objects. Everyday. Dull. Mundane. But what if one was capable of inspiring tears? Or a great passion?…

“A modestly bitter attack on theatre” Bo hr. Hansen called this quirky comedy about an elderly B-actor and a young female journalist about to do an interview with him. The old actor blurbs out cliché after cliché with a horrible precision, only interrupted by moments of clarity, mostly supported by…

17 minutes is how long Sheriff’s Deputy Andy Rubens stood outside a school while a shooter was inside. The play explores the communal and residual effects of a shooting through Andy, a man who struggles with his own complicity in the tragedy, and who seeks meaning in the wake of…

When death comes knocking at your door, it is neither the right time nor the right person! Bertrand is about to commit suicide when there is a knock on his door. He opens it. A man with a moustache and a gun is there to kill him.

Hiding behind an atmosphere of an auto-induced ecological apocalypse in the year of 2050, Hippe gives a conventional moralistic layout of the world that is a consequence of what is happening today. Lia is a thirteen-year-old girl that lives through her days just like any other girl of her age.…

Alchemy, mystical signs and hypnagogic experiences. Strinberg’s Occult Diary is a strange writing, wherein his search for context and meaning raises its desperate head. In this monologue Hirdwall uses material from the book’s third part; Strindberg has just been left by Harriet Bosse. His heart is broken, but Strindberg experiences…

This title is a tragicomic compilation of 24 monologues, as well as a couple of intermezzi, in which a line of failed destinies tell their stories and give their view on what by many is called the world’s richest country, Norway. However, the texts could just as well take place…

Variable cast size. Robert Falls and Seth Bockley’s adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s internationally acclaimed novel is a playful, genre-bending, labyrinthine, epic and ultimately devastating new play. This soaring and deeply felt script faithfully translates Bolaño’s cult masterpiece into a five-part theatrical event. 2666 begins with a group of hapless European…

The American blues-influenced rocker singer Janis Joplin died at the young age of 27 – thus the title of this exciting monologue drama. Joplin is resting in the afterlife, sharing the story of her life and her career: From the upbringing in Texas to the wild days in San Francisco.…

In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. The superintendent of the Syndicate Plantation sends over 27 wagons full of cotton for ginning, and turns aside his suspicions that Jake is the arsonist in exchange for apparent sexual favors from Jake’s…

This play is a show about 3 young stand up comedians. They are utterly wild, mad and up front on every beat. Eventually, due to their fantastic mixture of intellectual wit and slapsticks they move from being amateurs in various basement clubs around Manhattan to star on the Johnny Carson…

Part three of Karen Köhler’s hero trilogy about the friends Jonas, Mo and Jessica. Here Jessica tells about how she realized her dream and became a teacher and how, to her horror, she had to deal with xenophobic slogans at school. In a passionate and personal speech, she agitates for…

The play examines the creative process behind Beethoven’s 33 “Diabelli variations”, (released in 1823 as Beethoven’s “Opus 120”), and follows, at the same time, the musicologist Kathrine Brandt’s search to understand, how come he wrote different variations of such a simple theme by an unknown music producer. The story is…

A play about the power of imagination and that anything is possible if one takes the liberty to believe in it. Konrad, his uncle Ringelhut and the horse Kaballo Negro take this freedom and experience, in a very short time, absolutely amazing things on their way to the South Seas.…

Takeshi Kawamura wrote this play as a work in progress resulting from his attempts to explore “the possibilities of monologue”. The characters in the play are five men. They draw strips of paper from a black box that give them their roles including a juror, a Minister of Justice, a…

Two people are hiding as the tide rises and rises. Through imaginative plays, they try to disarm the seriousness of the situation. A surreal, apocalyptic, poetic and sarcastic chamber play.

Multiple characters are all awake at 4:05 one morning for different reasons — insomnia, sex, crying baby, ominous phone call, at work, anxiety. Through the course of this comedy these stories intersect. Secrets are revealed, major decisions are made, and lives change all before the sun comes up.

Multiple characters are all awake at 4:05 one morning for different reasons — insomnia, sex, crying baby, ominous phone call, at work, anxiety. Through the course of this comedy these stories intersect. Secrets are revealed, major decisions are made, and lives change all before the sun comes up.

This is a great and dashing musical taking place in New York in 1933. The provincial theatre-frantic choirgirl, Peggy Sawyer gets her big break when the lead singer, Dorothy Brock, twists her ankle during the last rehearsals for ‘Pretty Lady’ on Broadway. 42nd Street offers a succession of amazing dance…

Ken Talley, a disabled Vietnam war veteran and his lover Jed live in the Talley family’s large farmhouse in the American Midwest. They are visited for the summer holiday by Ken’s sister June and her teenage daughter, and also by Gwen and John, a would-be rock star and her husband/manager,…

6: SEX, Absolutely the bravest thing to choose. P: Porn, if you don’t dare to choose 6. K: chicKen, now you’re out of the game! Maria and Sara are friends, or so they used to be, until Maria receives a text saying “5EX P O C?” (“Sex – Porn –…

The Seven Dwarves live deep within a female-free-zone of the Enchanted Forest, but they cannot resist the innocent charms of Snow White when she enters their world. So when the evil queen abducts her, it is up to the dwarves to save her life.

A full-length musical in 2 acts 1 changeable set This is a rare and magnificent tribute to old age as we follow a group of senior citizens who have decided to spice things up a little at the old people’s home they are in. So rather unconventionally they become shoplifters…

Late one night, a small disagreement erupts into a fight that threatens to end a decade-long marriage. In this 90 minute play, we watch in real time as Ruth and Bo try to get past their disappointments, in life and each other, to answer the question – can you ever…

“Will they; won’t they?” is probably the first thing you’d think when faced with a team of climbers about to attempt one of the world’s 14 peaks of more than 8,000m, or indeed any expedition where the aim is to get from A to B and back again without dying.…

This tender, bittersweet West End and Broadway comedy, adapted from Helene Hanff’s book, is the extraordinary true story of a vivacious New York writer and a London bookseller. Through their letters and passion for books, they share a remarkable transatlantic romance spanning 20 years; their friendship blossoms into love through…

Mr. Kléber manages a medium sized supermarket. Alfa Allamodio is in charge of security. Groceries are disappearing from the warehouse, the numbers in the sales reports are not consistent with the stock in hand, and guns and war toys are indeed handy, especially when ghosts and spirits haunt.

For those of you just tuning in, Thanksgiving is already in progress here at Wembly kitchen. The stands are nice and full; it’s quite a crowd that’s gathered. They’re in for a real treat.

Carmichael has been searching for his missing left hand for over a quarter of a century. Enter two bickering lovebirds with a hand to sell, and a hotel clerk with an aversion to gunfire, and we’re set for a hilarious rollercoaster of love, hate, desperation and hope. “A Behanding in…

Comedy with music by Loudon Wainwright. This zany comedy takes place in the kitchen of the archetypal suburban housewife in Westchester Country N. Y. Maude is having a tough day: her husband is off on a weekend spree with his secretary and she can’t get rid of her pesky neighbour…

In 2004, Caryl Churchill’s version of August Strindberg’s symbolist play premiered at The National Theatre in London. Indra’s daughter has come down on earth to see how people are. She attempts to understand everything about the human being: Sorrow and joy, life and death, love and hatred; including the hardest…

Chris Thorpe is one of the most interesting voices in the performance and documentary theater genre. Here he investigates the threat around nuclear weapons / war and the challenges for nuclear disarmament. Characters include diplomats and activists working for disarmament and the audience itself who is engaged with questions from…

Documentary monologue based on real interviews with Brunhilde Pomsel who in 2016 (at the age of 105) revealed her story: of how she worked as a secretary in Berlin during the 1930-40s – at first, for a Jewish insurance broker, then for the German Broadcasting Corporation and finally for Joseph…

2 Acts / 12M, 10F / Possible doubling Commissioned by NIDA 1993

The drama centres on the inhabitants of a desolate castle as world war threatens. A government messenger confronts a bedridden poet and his mistresses, but is unable to leave, whilst aircraft pass overhead dropping poems. Passion and duty are contrasted with the brinkmanship of war, in a work which aims…

Account of Dr Sach’s work with patients suffering from sleeping sickness. 1983’s ‘A Kind of Alaska’ is Pinter’s eerie and moving vision of a woman who wakes from a 29-year sleep to find herself a teenage girl in the body of a middle-aged woman.

This is a riveting and surreal cliff-hanger about an artist on the peak of his career; happily married and respected by friends. Everything is peachy but during a romantic trip to Toscana gruesome nightmares begin to intertwine with reality. His wife’s and friends’ attempts to help him are in vain…

This is a comedy about the artifice of acting and living. Two actors are seen performing, rehearsing, discussing and arguing over their work. In a series of snippets of plays running the gamut from melodrama to pseudo-Chekhov to sheer corn, the two portray the reality as well as the illusion…

Biographical material where the performer Bette Bourne tells Mark Ravenhill about his flamboyant life, among other things about London in the 60s, the Gay Liberation Front, the cabaret group Bloolips, which redefined the term gay theatre. The material is a thought-provoking portrait of a pioneering, radical individual and a historical…

The Conroys are being evicted from their home of 36 years of marriage. The house will be razed to make way for a new park, the centerpiece of Pittsburgh’s transformation into a cleaner, more liveable city. While waiting for a taxi to take them to their new apartment, Micky and…

Set in 1930’s St. Louis, the play takes place in Dorothea’s apartment. A teacher, Dorothea, aspires to marry, but sees her prime years fading. She lives with Bodey, a gregarious and proud woman of German heritage. Bodey wishes that Dorothea marry her twin brother Buddy. Upstairs lives Sophie, a frantic…

Barrie Keeffe has updated the action of his satirical comedy from the Queen’s Silver Jubilee year to the present. He has changed many of the references. Instead of a conniving Hackney family seeking compensation for a dubious docks accident, they are now after a pay-out for a rail death resulting…

Garlands of awards and critical praise greeted this play in New York and London. Poul Scofield was pronounced brilliant for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in his last years as Lord Chancellor of England during the reign of Henry VIII. When Henry fails to obtain from the Pope a…

With DER EINGRIFF István Eörsi has written a tragic farce. The text is a mocking song of the Hungarian system.

A father faces his adult son who has been cloned in 21 exact copies at birth. Through this meeting with the original and later on through meeting two of the clones Caryl Churchill in her own unique form examines the advantages and the disadvantages of genetic engineering. This is a…

Flora and Bessie are members of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Jackson Haggerty Post of the Sons of Mars in Memphis and are in town for the National Convention. Having got separated from “the boys” they await them in the tavern, where they chat and gossip. Things get tearful but…

A headmistress at a private school awaits her daughter’s arrival on a railway platform. She is joined by a professional magician and a wino and finds herself caught by memory and desire. Published Currency Press in Short Plays, Vol.1

Five years ago, Haddon Grey was an actor at the zenith of his profession. Now, disabled by a stroke, and too proud to be seen by his friends, colleagues or public, on or off the stage, he lives alone and perhaps in penury, a long way from the city which…

Two gentlemen, who are, as they say in Ireland, “footless”, wander into a Dublin post office in search of funds to continue their celebration.

God doesn’t exist. M knows that. Everyone knows that. M lives in a world of reason and science and facts and probability and cause and consequence. He always did. So why is he suddenly praying? What does God respond to that? And is God a nice guy?

A study of hopelessness and depression, as a mother crippled with multiple sclerosis and her plain, dumpy daughter tell us about their wretched lives. It’s a gripping story about a mother who hates men and a daughter who so desperately wants to love them.

Alice and Ben have just moved into their beautiful new apartment and discover that the family next door wishes to be more than just good neighbours. Soon Juliette, Gilles, and their son Francois are almost synonymous with drinks, hors d’oeuvres and dancing. When the innocent invitations lead to passionate meetings…

1 Act / 2F, 2M / Possible doubling / Theatre In Education piece “I never even knew her! More than to say hello to. What do you want me to do? Bawl my eyes out like all the girls? What do you want me to say? I’m sorry? Course I’m…

Lucretia Mott arrives home late one night in 1848 to find her husband John waiting by the fire. An astonishingly frank conversation ensues as the 55-year-old wife and mother boldly and lovingly explains her co-creation of the Declaration of Sentiments, and her work to create a new future of possibilities…

A Servant of Two Masters, written by Carlo Goldoni in 1743 was an attempt at reviving Commedia dell’arte by scripting the dialogue and still leaving room for improvisation. The play focuses on a simpleminded character named Truffaldino who brings himself into trouble when he attempts to care for two masters…

This is an adult-only, gothic black comedy. Martin McDonagh’s blood-splattered script, part thriller, part farce, is set mostly in an Irish village graveyard, where Mick disinters human remains every autumn to make way for new arrivals. To help him, he has the local tearaway Mairtin and village gossip Maryjohnny occasionally…

It is Saturday night in the provincial club A-GO-GO and three boys and four girls are out trying to catch a date. Desperately the girls try to look like Twiggy, Sandy Shaw or Dusty Springfield while the boys -wearing their suits – want to look like Donovan or one of…

2 F / 1 M 1 Set The play was written in the spring of 1961 for the Nottingham Playhouse company who wanted something to present in a double bill with ALAS POOR FRED. Penelope shoots her husband – by accident, of course. She buries him under the carpet and…

A play for young people, the action takes place in the course of an under 15’s AFL game. Michelle is worried that her footy days are over and Ferret, playing opposite her, wants more than anything to please his father who has finally come to watch him play. Nancy hates…

A troupe of travelling comics/clowns perform their version of Leoncavallo’s opera “I Pagliacci” – about the Clown who must perform despite a tragic heart – in a tent at a seedy seaside holiday resort. Each member of the troupe has a comic style based on a famous movie comedian/comedienne, from…

A support group for things inside of things. A class for women writers. A raucous frat party. An absurd exploration of language and gender.

This play is based on actual events. A young couple, Luc de Winne and Maggie Strobbe checks in at a hotel with their two little children – a 7-year-old and a 3 month old daughter. A week passes, and the police discover something ghastly. In 1999, in the Belgian town…

Mostar became a symbol for the Bosnian war and Roel Adam here looks at the separated town. What happens when you’re no longer allowed to love your friend and later are not able to? What happens when a bridge disguises itself as a blonde and what are the stones thinking?…

A light and at the same time melancholic comedy that follows six youngsters during one summer. An emerging film director wants to shoot a film with his sisters and some friends. It’s going to be a film about “small harassments and one big love”. And for that the participants must…

“We all have the same story” is about a woman, who’s unable to afford an abortion, and tells her female infant a wild fairy tale about a little girl and her foul-mouthed dolly who eventually frees her (the grown up little girl) from an empty bourgeois marriage.

Jelinek’s critical sequel to finance play “Die Kontrakte des Kaufmanns” from 2009. Here the absurdities of the financial crisis are seen from the private investors’ view with the involvement of the Oedipus myth and the politician Rosa Luxemburg. It is a text stream without dialogue, characters or action, but rich…

With unhistrionic force this play captures a sense of life down in Lewisham where unemployment is running rife and demoralisingly among the bored young. It is not a grim play though the final implications are chilling. There is a raw and crude humour in the situation and language of these…

A brilliant satire about middle-class English consumerism and appearances, with Alison Steadman’s frightening performance as a frantic woman trying to orchestrate an important dinner party, which is interrupted by her husband’s untimely heart attack.

Judaism, Christianity and Islam all claim Abraham as their ancestor, but is it not really the same story told in three different ways? Coexistence between the children of Abraham has been contentious, but the history of Jews, Christians and Muslims in Europe is much more than a conflict. It is…

After a long period of turmoil, the Leader’s office has imposed an uneasy period of calm on the Labour Party. But the leader, George Jones, knows he has only one chance of power. The third part of a trilogy of plays about British institutions, The Absence of War offers an…

Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancée so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him. Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and Evelyn, and…