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Ruth WolffDescription
The sweep of Eleanor's entire life — from her early marriage to Louis VII, King of France, through her marriage to Henry II of England, to her imprisonment, reign and death — is encompassed in this action-packed, highly literate drama... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (5 female, 11 male, doubling possible)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Euripides, translated by Marianne McDonald and J Michael WaltonDescription
Euripides' version of the Ancient Greek myth of revenge on a murdering parent. Electra's brother Orestes returns to avenge the murder of his father, Agamemnon, by his mother Clytemnestra.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male, doubling, flexible casting, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Sophocles, translated by Marianne McDonald and J Michael WaltonDescription
A tragic tale of duty, retribution and fate. King Agamemnon, on returning from the Trojan Wars, is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 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
Following his triumphs during the Trojan War, the great Greek warrior Agamemnon is slaughtered by his crafty wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Isaac OliverDescription
A brutally funny modern tragedy, ELECTRA IN A ONE-PIECE re-imagines the bloody Greek tale for our digital era... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 135 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Rogelio MartinezDescription
Fast-paced, energetic, and emotionally charged, ELIÁN takes us back to 1999, when a young boy was found on the shores of Florida clinging to his life... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Kermit FrazierDescription
In the frightening, chaotic early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Black mother and daughter come together both to grieve and to search for reconciliation.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Eugene O'NeillDescription
Brutus Jones sets himself up as monarch of a Caribbean island and exploits his subjects ruthlessly until a uprising forces him to flee for his life... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesRuth WolffDescription
As the 19th century moves into the 20th century, the Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi struggles to hold together the proud ancient Chinese empire, which is being assaulted by foreign nations and the technological advances of the age... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, optional extras: court attendants)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Joel Drake JohnsonDescription
Most of this play takes place in a nursing home where a disgruntled, flamboyant, elderly mother is recovering from a bad fall... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Jeffrey M JonesDescription
Follow meerkat M C Kat and his reluctant sidekick, Big Dick Sorehead, as they travel a surrealistic path through modern Americana.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated and adapted by Richard NelsonCollection Description
This collection includes two versions of Henrik Ibsen's AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, a translation and an adaptation... [read more]
Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
Ibsen's classic of social realism concerns a village doctor, Dr. Stockmann, who discovers that the town's spa is polluted... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (2 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesHenrik Ibsen, translated by Richard NelsonDescription
Ibsen's classic of social realism concerns a village doctor, Dr. Stockmann, who discovers that the town's spa is polluted... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (4 female, 11 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Luigi Pirandello, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
Nobel Prize–winner Luigi Pirandello's ENRICO IV concerns a passionate and despairing 20th-century man who imagines himself to be an 11th-century king.
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (2 female, 11 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesNeed help?