18th Century
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Karen SundeDescription
On the eve of his departure from Paris, Benjamin Franklin and his French contemporaries avoid goodbyes by engaging in charades and parlor games... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Constance CongdonDescription
The life of Casanova as told through the scintillating prism of Constance Congdon's imagination... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (6 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 180 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Georg Büchner, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
Set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, the play takes place from March 24 to April 4, 1794, when Maximilien Robespierre was in charge of the Committee of Public Safety that, along with the Revolutionary Tribunal, condemned people to the guillotine... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 26 total (8 female, 18 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Pierre Marivaux, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
The best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights — a sparkling 18th-century comedy of manners based on the simplest of plot devices, the exchanging places of master and valet, mistress and maidservant.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male, 1 bit part)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Glen BergerDescription
Battling obstacles both grand and trivial in eighteenth-century France, two little-known scientists strive mightily to advance humanity's understanding of life and the universe at the heady height of the Age of Enlightenment.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Anthony ClarvoeDescription
Hounded out of his native England, Joseph Priestley hoped to secure a sanctuary along the banks of the Susquehanna... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Richard Nelson, from a literal translation by Erika GastelliDescription
This Goldoni comedy recounts the matrimonial scheming, gossip, and games enlivening the daily activity of a bustling but poor Venetian piazza where gaming, dancing and pandemonium reign... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (6 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Carlo Gozzi, translated and adapted by Natalya BaldygaDescription
From the adaptor's note: This play is full of transformations, and through the act of adaptation, it has undergone transformations of its own... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, a chrous, bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
On the docks of late 18th-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves, Adjua and Dembi, plan a desperate and daring run to freedom... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Pierre Beaumarchais, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
A Count's valet prepares to marry the Countess' chambermaid — until it becomes clear the Count wishes to revive an old law that will allow him to take advantage of the bride before the wedding... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (4 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Jane Austen, adapted by Christopher BakerDescription
Jane Austen's mastery of manners and morals is on full display in Christopher Baker's acclaimed stage adaptation of her beloved masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (10 female, 8 male, 18 speaking roles or with doubling 14 actors)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Constance Congdon, further adapted by Christopher Bayes and Steven EppDescription
Goldoni's eighteenth-century masterpiece is an enduring story of love, passion, and mistaken identity... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male, bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 115 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
Pulled from the stomach of a whale, an American whaler is bleached blind and becomes a modern Tiresias in the court of Louis XVI... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 140 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Lonnie CarterDescription
The real life, storybook adventures of Phillis Wheatley; a revolutionary American slave girl, whose poetic genius lifted her from New England parlor trick into the great salons of Europe and beyond... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes