German
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Eric Overmyer, Moliere, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Giraudoux
Description
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 CostumesTom JacobsonDescription
Five Southern California art students re-enact the history of the famous Bauhaus School in this ambitious exploration of the extraordinary people that brought this extraordinary movement to life.
Tom JacobsonDescription
Five struggling Southern California art students create a dramatic presentation on the founding of the famous Bauhaus school in order to save themselves from being kicked out.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, flexible casting, doubling, 5 actors of any gender)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesTom JacobsonDescription
Defunded by the city of Weimar, the Bauhaus moves to Dessau and becomes the most influential art school in history.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, flexible casting, doubling, 5 actors of any gender)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesTom JacobsonDescription
After Hitler shuts down the Bauhaus, some of the faculty emigrate to Los Angeles, where scores are settled between the founder Walter Gropius, his ex-wife Alma Mahler and composer Arnold Schönberg.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, flexible casting, doubling, 5 actors of any gender)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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 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 CostumesJohan Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
A fresh, performable version of Goethe's "unstageable" masterpiece. God and Mephistopheles vie for the mortal soul of Dr Faust... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 240 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesEric Overmyer, an adaptation of Pierre Beaumarchais and Ödön von HorváthDescription
Eric Overmyer's sparkling adaptation and synthesis of Beaumarchais's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO and Ödön von Horváth's FIGARO GETS A DIVORCE... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (6 female, 11 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesJulie Marie MyattDescription
For many urban dwellers, daily life includes walking the dog surrounded by strangers and neighbors with whom you have only a passing acquaintance, whose personal stories you can only guess, imagine, or project upon them through the various waves hello, small talk about the weather, or random gestures of kindness... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male, one dog)
Full Length (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesGeorg Büchner, adapted by Sean GraneyDescription
Büchner's classic is brought to vivid life in Sean Graney's sensational adaptation.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesFriedrich von Schiller, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (2 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesArthur Schnitzler, adapted by Eric BentleyDescription
Eric Bentley's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's classic LA RONDE.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesCarl Sternheim, translated by Eric BentleyDescription
In THE UNDERPANTS, she is waiting in the crowd — Berlin, circa 1910 — craning her neck forward to see the Kaiser pass by... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes