Classics
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Frank Langella, an adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de BergeracDescription
Frank Langella's gritty, minimalist adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, based on Brian Hooker's translation.
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (3 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Mary Shelley, adapted by Austin TichenorDescription
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1816, and it caught the public imagination almost immediately... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (6 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Honoré de Balzac, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
THE FRAUDSTER follows Auguste Mercadet, a man fighting against his creditors and the ruses he uses to escape them.
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (4 female, 11 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickCollection Description
This collection includes five long one-act plays: THE AWFUL TOOTH, BLASTED EVENT, DEAD WRONG, POTTY FAVORS, and SHE CAN'T BARE IT! Master Belle Époque farceur Georges Feydeau loosely based these brilliantly funny long one-acts on the failure of his own marriage... [read more]
Lope de Vega, translated by Laurence BoswellDescription
A masterpiece by one of the greatest writers of the Spanish Golden Age. When the people of the town of Fuente Ovejuna revolt against their tyrannical overlord and murder him, the authorities attempt to find out who is responsible, leading to one of the most memorable acts of resistance in world drama.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (4 female, 12 male, flexible casting up to 8 women and 20 men)
Full Length Drama (about 180 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Pierre Marivaux, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
The best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights — a sparkling 18th-century comedy of manners based on the simplest of plot devices, the exchanging places of master and valet, mistress and maidservant.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male, 1 bit part)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
August Strindberg, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Ghosts drift through Strindberg's haunted and haunting dreamscape where a student idealizes the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to discover that their lives, perhaps even life itself, may be a kind of hell from which salvation can only be achieved through suffering.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (7 female, 7 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated and adapted by Anthony ClarvoeDescription
Ibsen's 1881 masterpiece finds a fresh interpretation in Anthony Clarvoe's taut adaptation in which a woman has to face her legacy of religious and sexual repression when her grown son comes home to tell her that he has an incurable sexually transmitted disease and asks her to help him die with dignity.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Sholem Asch, translated by Richard Nelson with Robert MarxDescription
BBC correspondent David Mazower (Sholem Asch's great-grandson) described THE GOD OF VENGEANCE as "admired, translated, parodied, panned, banned, prosecuted, withdrawn, forgotten, revived, celebrated... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (7 female, 5 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Anthony Clarvoe, from the novel by F Scott FitzgeraldDescription
F Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel is here realized for the stage by Anthony Clarvoe in a new adaptation suffused with critical insights into the role ethnicity played in Gatsby's struggle... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, flexible casting, extras possible)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Donald FreedDescription
An inspired twist on HAMLET that delves into the lines between the lines to give new theatrical shape and form to perhaps the greatest play ever written.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (1 female, 6 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Marie Thomas, music and lyrics by Micki GrantDescription
This play updates the familiar fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm from the 1800s to the 1980s. Hansel and Gretel's stepmother, Irma, has a plan to get rid of them... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (9 female, 5 male, flexible casting)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Euripides, translated by Marianne McDonaldDescription
Hecuba, deposed queen of Troy, has seen her husband humiliated, her son murdered and her daughter sacrificed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male, doubling, flexible casting, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
A selfish, cynical woman bored by her marriage to the scholar Jorgen Tesman, Hedda Gabler's father's pair of pistols provide intermittent diversion, as do the attentions of the ne'er-do-well Judge Brack... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Victor Hugo, adapted by John StrandDescription
HERNANI, Victor Hugo's third play, written when he was 28, was not so much a piece of theater as a bombshell dropped directly into the laps of les classiques, the conservative defenders of French drama and its perfect garden of rules, regulations, and Aristotelian commandments of How Things Must Always and Forever Be... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 150 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes