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Matt LyleDescription
In 1692, as the Salem Witch Trials rage in nearby Salem, the residents of Peabody, Massachusetts are going through their own crucible, and they are just, like, really sick of crucibles... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male, doubling, flexible casting, up to 37 actors)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
The Illegitimate PlayersDescription
The most Illegitimate collection of titles ever offered. The Illegitimate Players' irreverent twists on the classics are joyous, knee-slapping fun.
Edwin SánchezDescription
When Papo, a tough-talking Puerto Rican hustler from the Bronx, meets Brian, a frightened young lawyer from the Midwest, Papo begins to glimpse the possibility of a romantic escape from his life on the streets... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Kenny FinkleDescription
Part murder mystery, part unrequited romance, and part absurdist debacle about the denial and transcendence of death, TRANSATLANTICA tells the story of Dr Reginald Reinhold, whose psychoanalytic session with an eccentric patient, Ilyria (of the land of Ilyria), is interrupted by his wife with news that she is dying... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
High atop a railroad trestle that spans a bone dry creek, two teenagers plan to race across the bridge against an oncoming locomotive... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Karani Marcia JohnsonDescription
In THE TRIAL OF ONE SHORT SIGHTED BLACK WOMAN VS MAMMY LOUISE AND SAFREETA MAE, Karani Marcia Leslie explodes the plantation myth of Mammy Louise as the protector and nurturer of the Master's family, and her mulatto daughter, Safreeta Mae, the willing sexual toy of the master in a courtroom ritual-drama that has Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae defending themselves against indictment from Victoria, an upscale, professional Black woman who feels that their images limit her potential to be taken seriously for career advancement.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (6 female, 1 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Brooke BermanDescription
On the verge of the millennium, a strange teenaged prophetess obsessed with New Wave music invites a suburban family and the raunchy movie star who has crashed in on their holiday to join her as she welcomes The New World.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Sally OrdwayDescription
Two women pass their time on the porch of a retirement home by counting passing cars.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Peter UllianDescription
In 1986, a band of would-be revolutionaries, made up of a cross-generational amalgam of burned-out sixties radicals and angry punk anarchists, await the return of their leader, Blackbird Flynt, following a failed bank robbery.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Jean Giraudoux, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Hector, the peace-seeking leader of the Trojans, attempts to stop a war sparked by his brother Paris taking Helen... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 19 total (7 female, 12 male, doubling possible, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
adapted from Euripides by Sara FarringtonDescription
In a flash of modern warfare (Ukraine? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Poland? Hiroshima? Israel? Gaza?), a mother loses her child... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female, or flexible multiplayer casting allowed)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Adam RappDescription
A religious Southern clan cite God's will as justification for torturing each other.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Karen SundeDescription
TRUTH TAKES A HOLIDAY asks what happens in the White House in the first 24 hours after a presidential sex scandal breaks?
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Allan HavisDescription
This stark, disquieting drama depicts the eleventh-hour effort of a hired tutor to transform the life of a very bright, self-destructive teenager before a Columbine tragedy occurs in San Diego.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes