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  • Objective Love
    Megan Terry

    Description

    A lyrical study in the ways, perhaps misguided, that He and She love.

    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Ocean Dream
    Nancy Rhodes

    Description

    A young woman recovers her childhood during an afternoon on the beach.

    Production Info

    Cast: 2 total (2 female)
    Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Oedipus the King
    Sophocles, translated from the Greek by Laurence Senelick

    Description

    First performed around 430 BCE, Sophocles' OEDIPUS THE KING remains as shocking a tragedy as it must have been to the ancient Greeks... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (1 female, 7 male, doubling, nonspeaking parts)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • Of Grapes and Nuts
    The Illegitimate Players, Doug Armstrong, Keith Cooper, Maureen Morley

    Description

    In the words of The Chicago Reader, "The witty script supplies the one thing Steinbeck lacked: a sense of humor! … OF GRAPES AND NUTS dogs its original like a comic bloodhound... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Of Two Minds
    Billy Aronson

    Description

    A mother and her teenage daughter become involved with the same man.

    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
    Short Comedy (about 35 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Old Glory
    Brett Neveu

    Description

    Shrouded in mystery, the circumstances surrounding six ordinary people grappling with the emotional casualties of war unfold.

    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Old Soldiers
    Martin Jones

    Description

    It is Armistice Day, 1962. Three veterans of the World Wars exchange army stories, lament the vagaries of age, and wait for the arrival of Harry, their old army buddy... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
    Short Drama (about 50 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • On Sundays
    Lynne Alvarez

    Description

    ON SUNDAYS concerns a single day in the life of a young female dancer whose existence is surrealistically intertwined with fifty years of the life of a man who has become obsessed with her.

    Production Info

    Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
    Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • On the Harmfulness of Tobacco
    Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from a translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

    Description

    “LITTLE COMEDIES finds the sublimity in intimacy and reminds one that the author was, among many things in his too-short life, a master of the short story … by turns riotously funny, deeply sad and quietly contemplative... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 1 total (1 male)
    Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • On the Head of a Pin
    Frank Winters

    Description

    Three years ago, Sarah Kennedy thought she was hired as a translator for a corporate military prison in Baghdad, only to discover that she would be acting as an interrogator instead, retrieving information from prisoners of war — by any means necessary... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 170 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning
    Eric Overmyer

    Description

    Among the most imaginative works of the 20th century, Eric Overmyer's ON THE VERGE OR THE GEOGRAPHY OF YEARNING captivates with its abundant invention... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • Once upon a Bride There was a Forest
    Kristen Palmer

    Description

    After Warren proposes to Josie, she decides she must make one last attempt to find her long-lost father before she walks down the aisle... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Ondine
    Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Dan O'Brien

    Description

    Traveling through an enchanted forest, the knight-errant Hans falls in love with a water sprite named Ondine, despite his engagement to a woman of the court... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 13 total (7 female, 6 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • One Acts and Monologues for Women
    Ludmilla Bollow

    Collection Description

    This collection includes three haunting short plays that are among our most popular titles: the monologues THE WOMAN WITH 27 CHILDREN and BELLE OF THE BIJOU and the one act LATE/LATE…COMPUTER DATE... [read more]

  • One Flea Spare
    Naomi Wallace

    Description

    By turns hilarious and deeply moving, ONE FLEA SPARE is set in plague-ravaged 17th-century London where social roles and the boundaries that describe them have been thrust into chaos... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes