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Richard Nelson
Description
To the Englishman Harry, Thursday may be a stupid day to have a holiday, but for his wife, Anne, in her eighth month of pregnancy and third year in London, a Thanksgiving dinner is a slightly desperate way to bring America to England... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesCharles Dickens, adapted by Jerry PatchDescription
Nineteenth-century London comes to life in Jerry Patch's delightful adaptation of Dickens' timeless classic along with Tiny Tim and the Cratchit family, the Fezziwigs, the Ghosts of Christmas past, present, and yet-to-come, and of course Ebenezer Scrooge.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (5 female, 11 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesIan TaylorDescription
COCKS AND HENS examines the myths and nonsense surrounding sex.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesBurt Grinstead and Anna StrombergDescription
Based on the classic novella, this darkly comic adaptation takes you to the dismal streets of London in the 1860s, where societal pressures silence a gentle doctor's questions about the nature of morality... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (7 female, 9 male, flexible casting, bit parts)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesBurt Grinstead and Anna StrombergDescription
Based on the classic novella, this darkly comic adaptation takes you to the dismal streets of London in the 1860s, where societal pressures silence a gentle doctor's questions about the nature of morality... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesNeil LaBute, based on the novel by Bram StokerDescription
Neil LaBute brings a rich theatricality and his provocative way with language and story to the world of Count Dracula, Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, and his beloved Mina — this time, with very much a mind of her own — infusing the classic gothic tale of terror, obsession, and pathos with a modern edge... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
Two very different old friends, one a British novelist, the other an American novelist, meet for an uninhibited lunch where they bare the raw emotional content behind their latest publications.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, multiple bit parts)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
Harley Granville Barker, the most influential theatre-maker of his time, finds himself adrift in America during the Great War... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesMary Shelley, adapted by Austin TichenorDescription
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1816, and it caught the public imagination almost immediately... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (6 female, 10 male, gender-diverse casting welcome)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesAnthony 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 CostumesJeff GoodeDescription
Lord Loveworthy has a problem. His only daughter is soon to be married. And the only way to pay for her wedding is to blackmail the vicar who's seducing his wife... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesNeal Bell, from the novel by Mary ShelleyDescription
Adapted from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, MONSTER takes a disturbing yet poignant look at one man's obsession with creating life and the destructive after effects of abandoning his creation.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
Subtitled "A Comedy of Trans-Atlantic Manners." An Englishman and his family live far-flung across the vast American continent... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesNaomi WallaceDescription
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 CostumesJane 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