Classics
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Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
The classic 1851 farce. Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse eats a straw hat hanging on a bush... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (6 female, 12 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the 20th century.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
Nikolai Ivanov is going through a midlife crisis. He has grown distant from his wife, Anna, who has given up everything for him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (6 female, 8 male, extras)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's LA RONDE, JITTERBUGGING: SCENES OF SEX IN A NEW SOCIETY is set in 1947... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Carlo Gozzi, translated and adapted by Natalya BaldygaDescription
From the adaptor's note: This play is full of transformations, and through the act of adaptation, it has undergone transformations of its own... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, a chrous, bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Often described as Feydeau's masterpiece, THE LADY FROM MAXIM'S charts the trials and tribulations of a certain proper Doctor Petypon who wakes up with a hangover only to find in his bed “The Shrimp,” a dancer at the Moulin Rouge and lady of the night... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 28 total (11 female, 17 male, doubling possible, extras)
Full Length Comedy (about 180 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
One of Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology. Ellida Wangel cannot give herself fully to her husband because she is overwhelmed by memories of the past and her attraction to the ocean... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 200 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Richard NelsonDescription
Ibsen's rarely performed play, THE LADY FROM THE SEA, was written just before HEDDA GABLER. It is a powerful expression of a woman's search for her own identity, in a world where women are defined by who they are with, instead of who they are or who they could become.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Edmond Rostand, translated by Brian VineroDescription
Don Juan's sexual conquests have gained him an infamous reputation all over Europe. When the Devil himself begins to drag him to Hell, Don Juan makes a bargain: In exchange for another ten years of life, he will commit to doing the Devil's dark work himself by bedding as many women as possible and leaving them wanting and devastated.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male, doubling possible, many female bit parts possible)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Molière, translated from the French into English by A R Waller, adapted by Steven Pimlott and Colin ChambersDescription
Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery focuses on the women folk of Chrysale's household, who look on all but intellectual pursuits as worthless and spurn love in favour of learning... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (5 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Georg Büchner, adapted by Sean GraneyDescription
Büchner's classic is brought to vivid life in Sean Graney's sensational adaptation.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
In THE LIBATION BEARERS Agamemnon's daughter Electra mourns her father's death. Her brother, Orestes, returns to Argos to kill their mother and stepfather, now king, and avenge their father's death... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
A masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age. It is foretold that Prince Sigismund will become a tyrant. Alarmed, his father, the king, imprisons him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from translations by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyCollection Description
LITTLE COMEDIES, an evening of five short plays by Anton Chekhov, span the author's career; this version of ON THE HARMFULNESS OF TOBACCO was one of the last pieces he wrote... [read more]
Friedrich von Schiller, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (2 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesNeed help?