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Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
Hippolytus, the illegitimate son of King Theseus of Athens, has invoked the scorn of the goddess Aphrodite by vowing to live a life of chastity and refusing to revere her, while giving the goddess Artemis constant devotion... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
Queen Creusa of Athens has long harbored a dark secret: As a girl, she was sexually assaulted by the god Apollo, and the encounter left her pregnant... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
On the eve of the Trojan War, the Greek leader Agamemnon is at the port of Aulis and finds himself at odds with the goddess Artemis... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (6 female, 7 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
Many years after the events that led to the destruction of Agamemnon's family during the Trojan War, his daughter Iphigenia, long thought dead, lives among the Taurians as a priestess in the Temple of Artemis... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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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 Costumes
Aeschylus, 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
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Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
Medea has abandoned her family and homeland of Colchis for the love of the great hero Jason, and her loyalty, cunning and talents in witchcraft have repeatedly rescued him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (2 female, 7 male, flexible casting, chorus, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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Sophocles, translated from the Greek by Laurence SenelickDescription
First performed around 430 BCE, Sophocles' OEDIPUS THE KING remains as shocking a tragedy as it must have been to the ancient Greeks... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (1 female, 7 male, doubling, nonspeaking parts)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesAeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaCollection Description
This collection includes three full-length plays: AGAMEMNON, THE LIBATION BEARERS, and THE EUMENIDIES, collectively known as THE ORESTEIA... [read more]
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
After avenging his father Agamemnon's death by slaughtering his mother Clytemnestra, Orestes finds himself tormented by The Furies and pursued by the Argive people who seek to put him to death along with his sister Electra... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
The first surviving play in the history of Western drama, THE PERSIANS represents a courageous act on the part of its author... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 125 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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Jean Racine, translated by Julie RoseDescription
Racine's 1677 reworking of Euripides's HIPPOLYTUS, celebrated for its tragic construction and the richness of its language... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (5 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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attributed to Aeschylus, translated from the Greek by Laurence SenelickDescription
PROMETHEUS BOUND recounts the tale of the titan Prometheus, who dared to defy Zeus, the king of the gods, by bestowing the gift of fire upon humanity.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (1 female, 6 male, plus a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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Sean GraneyDescription
In THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, Sophocles' seven surviving plays — OEDIPUS, IN TRACHIS, PHILOKTETES, IN COLONUS, AJAX, ELEKTRA and ANTIGONE — combine with music and food to create a stunning portrait of the human condition, where the intermingling of chance and fate yields disquieting results... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 220 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Eric BentleyDescription
A TIME TO DIE might be regarded as a Sophocles Variation, inspired as it is by the ANTIGONE of Sophocles, and A TIME TO LIVE as a Euripides Variation being inspired by the ANDROMACHE of Euripides... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesNeed help?