GIANT
Mark Rosenblatt
3 F / 3 M
Drama
English text
After a controversial statement, the British author Roald Dahl finds himself at the center of a media storm. His publishers seek him out in an attempt to contain the crisis, but the meeting develops into an intense confrontation. Questions of responsibility, freedom of expression, and personal beliefs are pushed to the limit, as truth, ego, and morality collide in a claustrophobic drama where no one emerges unscathed.
SAMTALE FØR DØDEN
Adam Price
2 F / 3 M
Drama
Danish text – Swedish translation
The condemned Nazi, Adolf Eichmann, and his judge meet in the final hours before his execution. In an intense conversation, the judge tries to understand how a man can abdicate responsibility for the greatest crime in history – as memories, explanations and excuses intertwine into a disturbing portrait of the nature of evil.
BORGEN
Musical based on the TV series by Adam Price
Book and lyrics: Martin Lyngbo
Music: Anders Ortman
Danish text
An intense and dramatic musical about politics and the price of power. Birgitte Nyborg is an idealistic party leader with a loving family. When a dramatic election place her at the center of coalition negotiations, she suddenly has a chance to become the country’s first female prime minister. But as Birgitte is drawn deeper into the brutal world of spin, strategy and compromise, the very honesty that brought her to office threatens her leadership, her marriage and her family. Borgen is a musical about the weight of responsibility and the cost of changing the world.
ROMANS
Alice Birch
3 F / 6 M
Drama
A powerful and experimenting text that spans different eras (150 years) and literary styles that follows the three privileged Roman brothers through a Victorian childhood to the 21st-century in a time-bending tale exploring the essence of what it is to be male (The Guardian). One brother becomes an adventurer and writer, another a powerful and ruthless industrialist and politician, and the last drifts frailly through life, unable to fit into the ambitious versions of masculinity.
THE WEIR
Conor McPherson
1 F / 4 M
Drama
A handful of single men are all regulars in a remote Irish pub where they in turn, excel in telling ghost stories. Then one day, when a woman named Valerie moves into the neighbourhood, they eagerly compete to impress her with the best story. However, she takes them all by surprise by telling her own ‘ghost story’, which turns out to be true and utterly inescapable.
BY THE BOG OF CATS
Marina Carr
6 F / 6 M
Drama
A dark, poetic tragedy about the strong and stubborn Hester, who was abandoned as a child and now lives on the margins of society, deeply tied to the bog where she grew up. When her former lover Carthage chooses wealth and another woman over her, Hester’s longing for love and belonging drives her toward a violent and inevitable tragic end.
MOTHER PLAY
Paula Vogel
2 F / 1 M
Drama
English text
Amid moving boxes, memories, and temporary homes, a family grows up — and grows apart. A mother clings to the past while her children fight for the right to become who they truly are. Through decades of love, loss, and transformation, the play paints a vivid portrait of the bonds that both tie us together and set us free. A darkly comic family saga about love, survival, and identity.
HOME, I’M DARLING
Laura Wade
4 F / 2 M
Comedy
Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling. But being a domestic goddess isn’t as easy as it looks. In her comedy Laura Wade shows us one woman’s attempts at being the apron-wearing, shirt-ironing 1950s ideal. But behind the chintz curtains, this marriage is not as perfect as it may seem. A play about out-dated domestic ideals.
THAT FACE
Polly Stenham
4 F / 2 M
Drama
A dark, intense family drama about privilege, neglect, and toxic love, That Face follows siblings Mia and Henry as they struggle to survive their chaotic home life. With an absent father and a manipulative, drug-dependent mother, the children are forced into adult roles, blurring boundaries between love, control, and survival. As their fragile world spirals, the play exposes the damaging cost of family loyalty and emotional dependence.
JORDENS SØJLER (THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH)
by Ken Follett / Thomas Poul Bjørn Høg / Lasse Aagaard / Sune Vibæk Svanekier
6 F / 10 M
Musical
Danish text
Set in 12th-century England, the master builder Tom Builder dreams of creating a cathedral the world has never seen before. A dream carried on by his stepson, Jack, and intertwined with the noblewoman Aliena’s struggle for survival and love in a brutal world shaped by power, war, and religious corruption. THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH is a sweeping historical drama about ambition, faith, art, and human determination – and about the price of fighting for something greater than oneself.
JORDENS SØJLER (THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH) ©Juul Fotografi
JORDENS SØJLER (THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH) ©Juul Fotografi