Greek
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Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
Agamemnon, having sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia, to win the battle of Troy, returns to Argos... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Sophocles, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
A modern adaptation of AJAX set at the Pentagon with corrupt, power-mad generals who censor information and revel in blood.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (2 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
The God Apollo has tricked the Fates into sparing King Admetus when it is his time to die. Yet in exchange, Admetus has to find another mortal to take his place in the Underworld... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (2 female, 7 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesEuripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
In the aftermath of the Trojan War, the royal-born Andromache finds herself in far-off Greece enslaved by the family of the man who killed her husband and forced her into the role of concubine... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Sophocles, adapted by Gregory MosherDescription
Kreon, the king of Thebes, has decreed that his nephew, the rebel soldier Polynices, will lie where he died in battle, as food for the birds and dogs... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male, Chorus 1 to 16)
Full Length Drama (about 55 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Euripides, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Of the hundred or so plays Euripides wrote in his lifetime only nineteen survive. Not all of them won first prize at the festivals, but BAKKHAI did.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (1 female, 7 male, Flexible Casting)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesEuripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
As Odysseus begins to journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, he and his companions are blown off course to the mysterious Mount Etna... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Euripides, translated by Marianne McDonald and J Michael WaltonDescription
Euripides' version of the Ancient Greek myth of revenge on a murdering parent. Electra's brother Orestes returns to avenge the murder of his father, Agamemnon, by his mother Clytemnestra.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male, doubling, flexible casting, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Sophocles, translated by Marianne McDonald and J Michael WaltonDescription
A tragic tale of duty, retribution and fate. King Agamemnon, on returning from the Trojan Wars, is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, flexible casting, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Isaac OliverDescription
A brutally funny modern tragedy, ELECTRA IN A ONE-PIECE re-imagines the bloody Greek tale for our digital era... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 135 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesAeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
In THE EUMENIDIES Orestes, trying to escape the vengeance of the Furies, is rescued by the gods and ordered to stand trial in a democratic court in Athens... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
A timeless contemporary drama which references a legend from the past to tell a story of today. After a long absence, the rebellious Antigone returns to Athens bringing with her a strong handsome Spartan and presents him as her champion in the Athenian games... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Euripides, translated by Marianne McDonaldDescription
Hecuba, deposed queen of Troy, has seen her husband humiliated, her son murdered and her daughter sacrificed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male, doubling, flexible casting, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Caridad SvichDescription
A Rave Fable. This play hurls one of Greek tragedy's most compelling sagas into a sleek netherworld of sex, drugs and trance music... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesAeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
In THE LIBATION BEARERS Agamemnon's daughter Electra mourns her father's death. Her brother, Orestes, returns to Argos to kill their mother and stepfather, now king, and avenge their father's death... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes