Classics

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  • Prometheus Bound
    attributed to Aeschylus, translated from the Greek by Laurence Senelick

    Description

    PROMETHEUS BOUND recounts the tale of the titan Prometheus, who dared to defy Zeus, the king of the gods, by bestowing the gift of fire upon humanity.

    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (1 female, 6 male, plus a chorus)
    Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • Ragged Dick
    Neal Bell, adapted from the novel by Horatio Alger

    Description

    Journalist Dick Hunter sets out to document the slums of 1890's New York where he discovers harrowing conditions of poverty and abuse.

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • The Return of Pinocchio
    Richard Nelson

    Description

    The famous long-nosed hero returns home to Italy a changed man after the experience of his success in Hollywood and America.

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Rip Van Winkle or 'The Works'
    Richard Nelson

    Description

    Richard Nelson uses the familiar tale of Rip Van Winkle as the basis for his epic study of American agrarian reform, the Industrial Revolution, and the labor movement.

    Production Info

    Cast: 22 total (7 female, 15 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 210 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • Rivkala's Ring
    Spalding Gray, based on a short story by Anton Chekhov

    Description

    Famously astute observer of everyday life, Spalding Gray receives a Chekhov short story in the mail, leading him into a monologue that confronts the fears that beset us... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 1 total (1 male)
    Short Comedy (about 25 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Romeo/Juliet
    William Shakespeare, adapted by Nina Shengold

    Description

    The most famous love story of all time has been edited from Shakespeare's text for a cast of five, and with a running time of seventy-five minutes.

    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • Rosmersholm
    Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeish

    Description

    Considered one of Ibsen's masterpieces, ROSMERSHOLM is the story of Johannes Rosmer, a former clergyman and owner of the estate Rosmersholm... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • Rossum's Universal Robots (R.U.R.)
    Bo List, freely adapted from the play by Karel Čapek

    Description

    In 1920, Karel Čapek's early science fiction classic R.U.R. coined the term "robot" and looked ahead to the wonders and dangers of artificial intelligence decades before it was cool to worry about such things... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male, doubling)
    Full Length Dark Comedy (about 120 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Round One
    Arthur Schnitzler, adapted by Eric Bentley

    Description

    Eric Bentley's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's classic LA RONDE.

    Production Info

    Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Round Two
    Eric Bentley

    Description

    Eric Bentley's gay adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's LA RONDE set in 1970's New York.

    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (8 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Salomé
    Oscar Wilde, translated by Matt DiCintio

    Description

    Inspired by symbolist poetry and the frequent appearance of Salomé in contemporary art and literature, Oscar Wilde wrote SALOMÉ in French during a Paris stay in 1891–92... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 17 total (2 female, 15 male, bit parts)
    Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
  • Scapino the Trickster
    Molière, translated and adapted by Matt DiCintio

    Description

    When two misers return from abroad, their sons find their romances with two mysterious women in peril... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
  • A Seagull in the Hamptons
    Emily Mann, freely adapted from Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULL

    Description

    Emily Mann brings Chekhov's masterpiece into the 21st century with bright contemporary language and a modern Hamptons' setting... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • The Servant of Two Masters
    Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Constance Congdon

    Description

    Goldoni's eighteenth-century masterpiece is an enduring story of love, passion, and mistaken identity... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 13 total (3 female, 10 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 115 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • The Shadow
    Evgeny Shvarts, translated by Laurence Senelick

    Description

    In an imaginary, fantastical land a scholar arrives seeking to find a way to make as many people as he can happy.

    Production Info

    Cast: 16 total (5 female, 11 male, doubling possible, many bit parts)
    Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes