17th Century
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$15.00
Ruth Wolff$15.00Description
Why, having become Queen in childhood, would Christina of Sweden give up the throne? Confused about her sexual identity and religious beliefs, and thwarted in love, she decides to abdicate, convert to Catholicism, and throw herself, for life, on the hospitality of the Vatican... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes -
$15.00–$15.95
Charles Evered$15.00–$15.95Description
The often hilarious, bawdy, and adventuresome story of Celadine, coffeehouse proprietor, writer, and sometime spy, during the reign of Charles II in London.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes -
$15.00
Molière, adapted by Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp$15.00Description
Molière's classic comedy comes to uproarious new life in a clever and contemporary adaptation Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male, doubling)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes -
$11.95
Molière, translated and adapted by Richard Nelson$11.95Description
With a calloused and lustful heart, Don Juan indulges his sexual appetites with boundless enthusiasm... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (3 female, 8 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes -
$11.95–$15.00
Lope de Vega, translated by Laurence Boswell$11.95–$15.00Description
A masterpiece by one of the greatest writers of the Spanish Golden Age. When the people of the town of Fuente Ovejuna revolt against their tyrannical overlord and murder him, the authorities attempt to find out who is responsible, leading to one of the most memorable acts of resistance in world drama.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (4 female, 12 male, flexible casting up to 8 women and 20 men)
Full Length Drama (about 180 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes -
Tony KushnerDescription
An epic farce about death and primitive capital accumulation, HYDRIOTAPHIA chronicles the final hours of Sir Thomas Browne, an English physician and writer known for his attempts to reconcile Christian values with scientific knowledge... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (8 female, 6 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 180 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes -
$11.95–$15.00
Molière, translated by Martin Sorrell$11.95–$15.00Description
First produced in 1673 and Molière's final play, THE HYPOCHONDRIAC is a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the "quack" medical profession... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (4 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes -
$11.95–$15.00
Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon, based on a new translation by Dan Smith$11.95–$15.00Description
Love is funny. Love is trickery. Love is … smelly? It's certainly a merry-go-round of misplaced desires and hidden agendas in Constance Congdon's fresh and hilarious new take on Molière's skewering of a health-care crisis from an entirely different century... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes -
$11.95
Molière, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky$11.95Description
Molière's classic comic masterpiece is here brilliantly translated by renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (two-time winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize) and playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Oliver Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (4 female, 8 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes -
$15.00–$15.95
Anthony Clarvoe$15.00–$15.95Description
In 1665 the plague brought London to its knees. THE LIVING concerns Londoners who have remained in the city as they struggle to find meaning in the midst of such a catastrophic epidemic.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (2 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes -
$15.00–$15.95
Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon$15.00–$15.95Description
In this delightful comedy about the French aristocracy, told with Molière's signature wit, the atmosphere is frivolous, the morals are loose, the egos are larger than life and everyone is looking for love... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes -
$15.00–$15.95
Molière, adapted by Virginia Scott$15.00–$15.95Description
Harpagon thinks that his children are costing him too much money and must be married off. He has found an old man who won't demand a dowry for his daughter, Elise, and a rich widow for his son, Cleante... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (4 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes -
$11.95
Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky$11.95Description
One of the world's great plays about censorship and the oppression of artists is now newly translated 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: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes -
$11.95–$15.00
Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon from a literal prose translation by Virginia Scott$11.95–$15.00Description
Constance Congdon's witty verse adaptation of Molière's timeless classic, in which a religious conman infiltrates the household of a gullible man and his exasperated family, has lent itself to productions set in modern-day Texas, New Orleans, and even The Sopranos' New Jersey... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes -
$0.00–$15.95
Matt Lyle$0.00–$15.95Description
In 1692, as the Salem Witch Trials rage in nearby Salem, the residents of Peabody, Massachusetts are going through their own crucible, and they are just, like, really sick of crucibles... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male, doubling, flexible casting, up to 37 actors)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes