Daniil Kharms was an early Soviet-era avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. His play "The plummeting old women" is an absurd story. Excessive curiosity made one old woman fall out of a window, plummet to the ground and break into pieces. Another old woman poked her head out of a window to look at the one who had broken into pieces, but excessive curiosity made her too fall out of the window, plummet to the ground and break into pieces. Then a third old woman fell out of a window, then a fourth, then a fifth.
The play by Ray Galton and John Antrobus is a hilarious farce from 1988. An extramarital affair turns into a nightmare when a thief pinches the husband’s trousers: Bookmaker Howard Swerling is married – and visiting his lover when a burglar steals his trousers. The hunt for spare trousers commences, leading to a sex-mad policeman’s proposal of marriage, drug parties and half-clad men and women – and from there straight into mayhem. And yet all Howard wants is to be home before his wife wakes up...
Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a comedy by Neil Simon. It premiered on Broadway in 1969. Barney Cashman, a middle-aged, married nebbish wants to join the sexual revolution before it is too late. A gentle soul with no experience in adultery, he fails in each of three seductions: Elaine Navazio, a sexpot who likes cigarettes, whiskey, and other women's husbands; Bobbi Michele, an actress friend who he discovers is madder than a hatter; and Jeannette Fisher, his wife's best friend, a staunch moralist. (Source: Wikipedia)
Kaspar, the human being is a comedy written by Adolf Glaßbrenner in Hamburg. It was published in 1850. The play can be called a reading drama because it is much more like a political pamphlet than a play and can be read as an aesthetic-political declaration of war. The prologue voice, which can be equated with Glaßbrenner, calls for a revolution in poetry and the state. (Source: Wikipedia)
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"The little witch who couldn't be angry" (original title: A Bruxinha que era boa - 1958) by Brazilian author Maria Clara Machado was an en-suite Christmas project for children at the Volksbühne in December 1985. The little witch rosemary is different from the other witch students. She has blond-golden hair and can not be really mean, as it would be for a first class witch. So she falls through the witch test and does not win the missile broomstick she longed for. When she then gave the lumberjack Peter against the order of Prince Otterngift III. Doing good is locked in the pitch tower.
Albert Wendt is a German children's book author, whose plays "My thick coat" and "Princess petite feet and the seven elephants" were premiered on the Berlin Volksbühne in 1982. (Source: Wikipedia) Princess Zartfuß (petite feet), very corpulent, and her husband, Dr. Ing. Mäusel, are traveling in the volcanic mountains when the road is blocked by a boulder. Even a circus with seven elephants, a conductor and a crane driver are stuck. Princess Zartfuß has the crazy idea to hoist the elephants on the rocks and have them dance for a homemade concert.
The German small-town is a comedy in four acts by August von Kotzebue, which deals with the petty-bourgeois world. The mayor of the town of Krähwinkel wants to marry his daughter Sabine to the construction, mountain and route inspector substitute Sperling. The daughter, who had previously spent a year in the city of residence, met a gentleman there (Mr. Karl Olmers), of whom she is very impressed. Under no circumstances does she want to be married to Sperling because Olmers and Sabine want to get married. Shortly before the engagement with Sperling, said Mr.
Tóték (The Toth Family) is a play by Hungarian writer István György Örkény from 1967. Adaptation and toleration up to self-abandonment? Fire chief Tót and his family in the idyllic mountain village practice this in the deceptive hope of saving the son's life at the front. A nervously ill commander, on vacation on vacation in the Tóts' house, forced the family to do senseless mechanical work on a cardboard cutting machine. The Tóts take a long time. Until the subjugation masochism changes and leads to the tormentor being dismembered. In four equal parts. (Source: theatertexte.de)
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The Comedy of Errors is, along with The Tempest, one of only two Shakespearean plays to observe the Aristotelian principle of unity of time—that is, that the events of a play should occur over 24 hours. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre numerous times worldwide.