16th Century
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Tom JacobsonDescription
Christopher Marlowe, sixteenth-century author, was murdered at the age of 29. This tragicomedy speculates that his death was tied to his scandalous play about the relationship between Jesus and the disciple John.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Mikhail Bulgakov after Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
Mikhail Bulgakov's brilliantly theatrical and highly personal adaptation of Cervantes' classic novel is here translated for the first time into English by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (7 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Victor Hugo, adapted by John StrandDescription
HERNANI, Victor Hugo's third play, written when he was 28, was not so much a piece of theater as a bombshell dropped directly into the laps of les classiques, the conservative defenders of French drama and its perfect garden of rules, regulations, and Aristotelian commandments of How Things Must Always and Forever Be... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 150 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Alfred de Musset, adapted by John StrandDescription
Alfred de Musset's 1832 play depicts Lorenzo de Medici, the 16th-century Florentine nobleman who killed his tyrannical cousin but did not establish a republican government afterwards and was forever disgraced by a debaucherous past.
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (4 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Niccolò Machiavelli, adapted by Peter MaloneyDescription
Machiavelli's 16th-century comedic classic. Callimaco wishes to bed Lucrezia, though she is the wife of the aging Nicia... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes