European
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Ruth Wolff
Description
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 CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
A comedy set at that epicenter of misunderstandings in 1990, just a year after the Berlin Wall was opened up and as its slow demolition was underway, and a year after the "Velvet Revolution" in Czechoslovakia.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesHenrik Ibsen, adapted by Eric OvermyerDescription
Eric Overmyer's remarkable adaptation of Ibsen's PEER GYNT, set in the Pacific Northwest and in South America.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (6 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesEric Overmyer, Moliere, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean GiraudouxDescription
A comical, anachronistic, and witty retelling of the Greek myth, composed "after Kleist by way of Molière with a little bit of Giraudoux... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesLynne AlvarezDescription
Two teens living in 19th-century Denmark are separated when the boy, Christian, mysteriously departs with Nina, an exotic older woman... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (9 female, 6 male, flexible casting, nonspeaking roles)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesAlexandre Dumas, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
"ANTONY is not a melodrama, ANTONY is not a tragedy, ANTONY is not a stage play. ANTONY is an acting-out of love, jealousy and anger in five acts... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (6 female, 9 male, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesTony KushnerDescription
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ANGELS IN AMERICA comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesLen Jenkin, adapted from "Ein Landarzt" by Franz KafkaDescription
Len Jenkin's surrealistic comedy uses Franz Kafka's story "Ein Landarzt" as a point of departure to explore his personal life and literary works.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesAugust Strindberg, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Strindberg's chilling anatomy of a marriage — in which the two partners duel with each other until one is utterly defeated... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesAugust Strindberg, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Strindberg's classic on the dissolution of a marriage is given an enthralling new translation by master translator Laurence Senelick.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 170 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesAustin Tichenor, inspired by Kafka's The MetamorphosisDescription
Kafka for kids? Is that a good idea? Fortunately, with a slight change in tone, it is. The fantastical elements of The Metamorphosis strike a chord with adolescents who are often experiencing their own struggles with changing bodies... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesGeorg 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 CostumesHenrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
Ibsen's groundbreaking tale of a woman awakening to a need for a life of her own. It is a story of domestic revolution, female empowerment, and the journey towards self-liberation and personal fulfillment... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (5 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesTirso de Molina, translated and adapted by Lynne AlvarezDescription
When the 17th-century Spanish dramatist and monk Tirso de Molina penned EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA, it was the first time the legendary libertine Don Juan had appeared on stage... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (5 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
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 Costumes