Classics

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  • Aeschylus, adapted by Robert Auletta

    Description

    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 Auletta

    Description

    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 Vinero

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Eric Overmyer

    Description

    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 Costumes
  • 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 Costumes
  • Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian Vinero

    Description

    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 Mosher

    Description

    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
  • Alexandre Dumas, translated by Laurence Senelick

    Description

    "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 Costumes
  • Maurice Hennequin and Pierre Vebér, translated by Laurence Senelick

    Description

    This classic and hilarious French farce commences when a customs official barges into newlyweds Robert and Paulette's train compartment at a most inopportune moment on their wedding night, rendering the poor fellow impotent... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • Jules Verne, adapted by Laura Eason

    Description

    Jules Verne's classic adventure tale is reimagined for the stage in this enchanting adaptation.


    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence Senelick

    Description

    THE AWFUL TOOTH was the last new play of Feydeau to be produced in his lifetime, and its dentist's chair offers a dose of sadistic hilarity... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
    Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
  • Richard Nelson

    Description

    Inspired by the Bertolt Brecht play BAAL, Richard Nelson's BAL concerns a thoroughly amoral man who destroys the lives of those around him.


    Production Info

    Cast: 14 total (5 female, 9 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Federico García Lorca, translated by Jo Clifford

    Description

    García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth-century masterpiece... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 10 total (7 female, 3 male, bit parts)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • Molière, adapted into English Verse by Brian Vinero

    Description

    Monsieur Jourdain is a middle-class merchant who foolishly believes he can break into the upper echelon of society... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male, flexible casting, doubling, bit parts)
    Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • Anthony Clarvoe, based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Description

    This literary masterpiece by one of the world's greatest authors is brought to vibrant life in this new adaptation... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes