17th Century
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Ruth WolffDescription
Why, having become Queen in childhood, would Christina of Sweden give up the throne? Confused about her sexual identity and religious beliefs, and thwarted in love, she decides to abdicate, convert to Catholicism, and throw herself, for life, on the hospitality of the Vatican... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted into English Verse by Brian VineroDescription
Monsieur Jourdain is a middle-class merchant who foolishly believes he can break into the upper echelon of society... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male, flexible casting, doubling, bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Charles EveredDescription
The often hilarious, bawdy, and adventuresome story of Celadine, coffeehouse proprietor, writer, and sometime spy, during the reign of Charles II in London.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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Edmond Rostand, translated into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
Rostand's masterpiece in verse CYRANO DE BERGERAC has enchanted audiences worldwide since the play's 1897 premiere in Paris... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 25 total (7 female, 18 male, multiple bit parts, doubling possible)
Full Length Comedy (about 180 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted by Christopher Bayes and Steven EppDescription
Molière's classic comedy comes to uproarious new life in a clever and contemporary adaptation Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male, doubling)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Molière, translated and adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
With a calloused and lustful heart, Don Juan indulges his sexual appetites with boundless enthusiasm... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (3 female, 8 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Lope de Vega, translated by Laurence BoswellDescription
A masterpiece by one of the greatest writers of the Spanish Golden Age. When the people of the town of Fuente Ovejuna revolt against their tyrannical overlord and murder him, the authorities attempt to find out who is responsible, leading to one of the most memorable acts of resistance in world drama.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (4 female, 12 male, flexible casting up to 8 women and 20 men)
Full Length Drama (about 180 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
An epic farce about death and primitive capital accumulation, HYDRIOTAPHIA chronicles the final hours of Sir Thomas Browne, an English physician and writer known for his attempts to reconcile Christian values with scientific knowledge.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (8 female, 6 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 180 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Molière, translated by Martin SorrellDescription
First produced in 1673 and Molière's final play, THE HYPOCHONDRIAC is a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the "quack" medical profession... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (4 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon, based on a new translation by Dan SmithDescription
Love is funny. Love is trickery. Love is … smelly? It's certainly a merry-go-round of misplaced desires and hidden agendas in Constance Congdon's fresh and hilarious new take on Molière's skewering of a health-care crisis from an entirely different century... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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Molière, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
Molière's classic comic masterpiece is here brilliantly translated by renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (two-time winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize) and playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Oliver Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (4 female, 8 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Anthony ClarvoeDescription
In 1665 the plague brought London to its knees. THE LIVING concerns Londoners who have remained in the city as they struggle to find meaning in the midst of such a catastrophic epidemic.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (2 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted by Constance CongdonDescription
In this delightful comedy about the French aristocracy, told with Molière's signature wit, the atmosphere is frivolous, the morals are loose, the egos are larger than life and everyone is looking for love... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted by Virginia ScottDescription
Harpagon thinks that his children are costing him too much money and must be married off. He has found an old man who won't demand a dowry for his daughter, Elise, and a rich widow for his son, Cleante... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (4 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
One of the world's great plays about censorship and the oppression of artists is now newly translated by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes