Classics

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  • Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, translated from French by Laurence Senelick

    Collection 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]


    Plays in This Collection

  • Carl Sternheim, translated by Eric Bentley

    Description

    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 Graney

    Description

    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 Koelb

    Description

    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 LaBute

    Description

    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 Nelson

    Description

    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 Mulrine

    Description

    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 Glaspell

    Description

    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 Chekhov

    Description

    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 Scott

    Description

    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 Zola

    Description

    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 Nelson

    Description

    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 McLeish

    Description

    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 Mulrine

    Description

    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
  • Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

    Description

    An exhilarating new version of UNCLE VANYA that pairs one of the greatest plays ever written with the world's most celebrated translators of Russian literature... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes