Classics
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Jean Giraudoux, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Hector, the peace-seeking leader of the Trojans, attempts to stop a war sparked by his brother Paris taking Helen... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 19 total (7 female, 12 male, doubling possible, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
adapted from Euripides by Sara FarringtonDescription
In a flash of modern warfare (Ukraine? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Poland? Hiroshima? Israel? Gaza?), a mother loses her child... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female, or flexible multiplayer casting allowed)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary 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
Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
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
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: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
David Mamet, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Mischievous bureaucrats play a card game (vint) using identity documents in their possession until they are caught redhanded... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (6 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
In celebrated playwright Richard Nelson's bold adaptation of Ibsen's classic, profound tragedy and surprising comedy combine to tell the story of the Ekdal family... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (3 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Anthony ClarvoeDescription
Anthony Clarvoe's adaptation of THE WILD DUCK remains remarkably faithful to Ibsen's masterpiece.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
"In the play I portray a disgusting, selfish, provincial fellow who for twenty years has been reading works on art but understanding nothing about the subject — a man who brings despondency and gloom to all those near him, who is not accessible to laughter and music — and who, despite all this, is undoubtedly happy... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Carl Sternheim, translated from the German by Laurence SenelickDescription
When the opportunity arises for lowly musician Paul Schippel to rise in the ranks of society, he takes it... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male, doubling possible)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Georg Büchner, English version by Kenneth TigarDescription
A groundbreaking masterpiece of the modern theatre. The play tells the tale of a poor soldier, a barber in the army, who is overwhelmed by the military and forced to become a human guinea pig for quasi-medical research... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (4 female, 12 male, doubling, bit parts, children, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Federico García Lorca, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
The tale of an impassioned childless woman living with her husband in rural Spain. Tortured by her incessant longing to conceive a child, she is driven by madness to commit a heinous crime.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (6 female, 2 male, 6 women in a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesCarl 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: 12 total (3 female, 9 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesNeed help?