17th Century

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  • The Miser
    Molière, adapted by Virginia Scott

    Description

    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
  • Molière or The Cabal of Hypocrites
    Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

    Description

    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
  • 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
  • The Pests
    Molière, translated and slightly abridged and adapted by Felicia Londré

    Description

    Molière's deliciously trifling comedy in a garden setting won the favor of the Sun King in 1661 and set his course to become the most-produced comic writer in the history of theatre... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 15 total (4 female, 11 male, 2 nonspeaking parts)
    Full Length Comedy (about 85 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • Scapino the Trickster
    Molière, translated and adapted by Matt DiCintio

    Description

    When two misers return from abroad, their sons find their romances with two mysterious women in peril... [read more]

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
  • Tartuffe
    Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon from a literal prose translation by Virginia Scott

    Description

    Constance Congdon's witty verse adaptation of Molière's timeless classic, in which a religious conman infiltrates the household of a gullible man and his exasperated family, has lent itself to productions set in modern-day Texas, New Orleans, and even The Sopranos' New Jersey.

    Production Info

    Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Too Many Crucibles
    Matt Lyle

    Description

    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