Classics
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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
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
As the fires that burned Troy smolder, the once-proud and regal Queen Hecuba finds herself homeless, widowed, and enslaved by the Greek conquerors... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 110 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
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
Hippolytus, the illegitimate son of King Theseus of Athens, has invoked the scorn of the goddess Aphrodite by vowing to live a life of chastity and refusing to revere her, while giving the goddess Artemis constant devotion... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Federico García Lorca, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (11 female)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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Molière, translated by Martin SorrellDescription
First produced in 1673 and Molière's final play, THE HYPOCHONDRIAC is a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the "quack" medical profession... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (4 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Richard Nelson, from a literal translation by Erika GastelliDescription
This Goldoni comedy recounts the matrimonial scheming, gossip, and games enlivening the daily activity of a bustling but poor Venetian piazza where gaming, dancing and pandemonium reign... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (6 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Tony Kushner, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille's L'ILLUSION COMIQUEDescription
A lawyer, facing mortality, desperate to find the son he drove away years before, travels in the dead of night to a mysterious cave... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon, based on a new translation by Dan SmithDescription
Love is funny. Love is trickery. Love is … smelly? It's certainly a merry-go-round of misplaced desires and hidden agendas in Constance Congdon's fresh and hilarious new take on Molière's skewering of a health-care crisis from an entirely different century... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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Molière, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
Molière's classic comic masterpiece is here brilliantly translated by renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (two-time winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize) and playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Oliver Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (4 female, 8 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
A new translation of Nikolai Gogol's comic masterpiece by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (7 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 135 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Nikolai Gogol, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Nikolai Gogol's classic and hilarious satire of bureaucratic ineptness and corruption in a first-class translation by Laurence Senelick.
Production Info
Cast: 27 total (6 female, 21 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
Queen Creusa of Athens has long harbored a dark secret: As a girl, she was sexually assaulted by the god Apollo, and the encounter left her pregnant... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
On the eve of the Trojan War, the Greek leader Agamemnon is at the port of Aulis and finds himself at odds with the goddess Artemis... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (6 female, 7 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesNeed help?