Short in Collection
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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 CostumesEric 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: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Robert AulettaDescription
The play introduces us to a couple, Dunn and Phia. We see them fight. We hear their pleas and curses... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 35 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Sally OrdwayDescription
Two women pass their time on the porch of a retirement home by counting passing cars.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Yussef El GuindiDescription
A deposed ruler defends his record as a man devoted to his people.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Neil LaButeDescription
A man headed downtown from Union Square asks directions from a homeless man and winds up sharing the details of his marriage and the unexpected contents of his lunch bag.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
David Mamet, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Mischievous bureaucrats play a card game (vint) using identity documents in their possession until they are caught redhanded... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (6 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesRobert AulettaDescription
VIRGINS is a fantasia inspired by the robbery in New York of an armored car in which two policemen and a guard were killed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Firesign TheatreDescription
A mad Kafkaesque journey that takes a confused tourist into a shadowy world of Byzantine fascists... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 male)
Short Comedy (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Franca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A working-class woman prepares for work while taking care of her baby. Meanwhile, her husband sleeps... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesSybille PearsonDescription
A play within a play set in a veterinarian's office.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesSally NemethDescription
The rain will not stop. Rising seas reclaim the land. In a loft barely above the water line, scientist Evangeline tracks the deluge, while locked in a love triangle with fellow researchers Jack and Dresden... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Jennifer TuckettDescription
What would you do if you woke up one day before school and discovered you just happened to be a superhero? Impress your friends or save the world? Two ordinary schoolgirls, Yasmin and Katie, try to make sense of this crazy and confused world in this honest and powerful play.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 40 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesFranca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A woman's double is a doll who says four-letter words to attract men.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from a translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
“LITTLE COMEDIES finds the sublimity in intimacy and reminds one that the author was, among many things in his too-short life, a master of the short story … by turns riotously funny, deeply sad and quietly contemplative... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes