Classics

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  • The Would-be Bourgeois
    Carl Sternheim, translated from the German by Laurence Senelick

    Description

    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
  • Woyzeck
    Georg Büchner, English version by Kenneth Tigar

    Description

    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
  • Yerma
    Federico García Lorca, translated by Jo Clifford

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • 1913
    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: 12 total (3 female, 9 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes