Classics
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Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, translated from French by Laurence SenelickDescription
SLAVE ISLAND was first produced on Monday, 5 March 1725 by Lelio Riccoboni's troupe and the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, nonspeaking roles)
Full Length Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesPierre Carlet de Marivaux, translated from French by Laurence SenelickCollection Description
SLAVE ISLAND was first produced on Monday, 5 March 1725 by Lelio Riccoboni's troupe and the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris... [read more]
Carl Sternheim, translated by Eric BentleyDescription
In THE UNDERPANTS, she is waiting in the crowd — Berlin, circa 1910 — craning her neck forward to see the Kaiser pass by... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Sean GraneyDescription
In THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, Sophocles' seven surviving plays — OEDIPUS, IN TRACHIS, PHILOKTETES, IN COLONUS, AJAX, ELEKTRA and ANTIGONE — combine with music and food to create a stunning portrait of the human condition, where the intermingling of chance and fate yields disquieting results... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 220 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Frank Wedekind, English version by Kenneth Tigar and Clayton KoelbDescription
Possibly the ultimate coming-of-age drama. The play follows a group of high-school friends in Victorian-age Germany who begin to experience their first sexual desires in a world where even talking about sex is taboo... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 25 total (7 female, 18 male, some doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Neil LaButeDescription
An amateur comic struggles with his new routine.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Nikolai Erdman, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
An unemployed "little man" contemplates suicide and is besieged by discontented groups wanting him to turn his suicide into a gesture on their behalf.
Production Info
Cast: 24 total (9 female, 15 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Maxim Gorky, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD was written in 1904, the year Chekhov died... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (6 female, 11 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
George Cram Cook and Susan GlaspellDescription
Originally produced by the Provincetown Players in 1915, SUPPRESSED DESIRES satirizes the then-current obsession with dream interpretation: Henrietta is unable to stop overanalyzing the dreams of her husband, Stephen, and sister, Mabel.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
John Guare, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
While hang gliding in the Catskills, a young woman wonders whether the young man in her company loves her... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon from a literal prose translation by Virginia ScottDescription
Constance Congdon's witty verse adaptation of Molière's timeless classic, in which a religious conman infiltrates the household of a gullible man and his exasperated family, has lent itself to productions set in modern-day Texas, New Orleans, and even The Sopranos' New Jersey.
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Neal Bell, adapted from the novel by Emile ZolaDescription
The story of a young woman forced into an unhappy marriage to her dull, sickly cousin and smothered by her overbearing aunt... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
Chekhov's classic tale of three sisters stuck in a provincial town and longing for Moscow finds a surehanded adaptor in award-winning author Richard Nelson.
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (5 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Alfred Jarry, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
The satirical farce acclaimed as the touchstone for the Dada and Surrealist movements, the Theatre of the Absurd, and much of the rest of experimental theatre in the twentieth century.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Vanya and his niece, Sonya, work relentlessly to keep their meagre estate going. Sonya finds relief in her undisclosed love for Astrov, the local doctor... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes