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Reginald EdmundDescription
THE ORDAINED SMILE OF SAINT SADIE MAY JENKINS is the seventh play in the nine-play series The City of the Bayou Collection, Reginald Edmund’s contemporary House of Atreus through an Afro-Surrealist lens... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male, all characters are African American)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
After avenging his father Agamemnon's death by slaughtering his mother Clytemnestra, Orestes finds himself tormented by The Furies and pursued by the Argive people who seek to put him to death along with his sister Electra... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
Inspired by the Moscow Art Theatre's historic tour of America in 1923–1924, where Konstantin Stanislavski's company was awaited with feverish anticipation, OUR LIFE IN ART presents the Russian actors over the course of one day while they are far from home, and political and financial dangers press upon them from all sides.
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (5 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
A complete unabridged translation of Chekhov's early play, discovered years after his death. PLATONOV (also known as FATHERLESSNESS and A PLAY WITHOUT A TITLE) is the name in English given to an early, untitled play in four acts written by Anton Chekhov in 1878... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (5 female, 13 male, extras)
Full Length Comedy (about 220 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Paul GrellongDescription
Distinguished Harvard professor Charles Nichols finds himself in hot water after inviting an incendiary white nationalist to speak at his annual symposium... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
attributed to Aeschylus, translated from the Greek by Laurence SenelickDescription
PROMETHEUS BOUND recounts the tale of the titan Prometheus, who dared to defy Zeus, the king of the gods, by bestowing the gift of fire upon humanity.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (1 female, 6 male, plus a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Naomi Wallace and Marcus RedikerDescription
In the silence of a Quaker meeting house, Benjamin Lay — shepherd, sailor, revolutionary, and the British Empire's first revolutionary abolitionist — returns from the grave almost 300 years after his death, as feisty and unpredictable as ever... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Alessandro CamonDescription
Michael and Nora travel to visit his mother Marianne, a reclusive artist who lives at the edge of the woods in California's Wine Country... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
Is it pornography or is it art? TASTY LITTLE RABBIT tells the true story of a 1936 Fascist Italian investigation of pornography charges in Taormina, Sicily... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
"Mankind used to be busy with wars, filling all its existence with campaigns, raids, victories, but now that has all outlived itself, leaving a huge empty space, and there's nothing to fill it with... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (5 female, 9 male, extras)
Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Tony KushnerCollection Description
TINY KUSHNER finds the inimitable Tony Kushner at his most laconic. Replete with scintillating turns of phrase, rich in wit and wisdom, and branded with his trademark intelligence, TINY KUSHNER reveals that Tony Kushner's mastery of the short form is as pronounced as his mastery of the epic... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
- Dr Arnold A Hutschnecker in Paradise
- East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis
- Flip Flop Fly!
- G. David Schine in Hell
- Notes on Akiba
- Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy
- Reverse Transcription: Six Playwrights Bury a Seventh
- Terminating or Sonnet LXXV or 'Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein' or Ambivalence
Richard NelsonDescription
In 1920, thirty-two-year-old Les Kurbas (the founder of the modern Ukrainian theatre), takes a group of young actors out of war-torn Kyiv into the countryside where they will perform plays, bartering tickets for food... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (6 female)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Darcy Parker BruceDescription
Max, recently separated, has just moved into the rundown Shady Pines motel at the edge of a national park... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (1 female, 4 male, also 5 wolves in the wolf pack, all roles may be cast as trans/nonbinary)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
José RiveraDescription
Aislin is getting older. She suffers the inevitable indignities of being human — and hates technology... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Sam MuellerDescription
After Lola loses weight, she finds her physical body is constantly in the spotlight — in her office, on the internet in DM's from people she hasn't spoken to in years, among her closest friends... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male, one character is nonbinary)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesNeed help?