17th Century

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  • Naomi Wallace

    Description

    By turns hilarious and deeply moving, ONE FLEA SPARE is set in plague-ravaged 17th-century London where social roles and the boundaries that describe them have been thrust into chaos... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
  • Molière, translated and slightly abridged and adapted by Felicia Londré

    Description

    Molière's deliciously trifling comedy in a garden setting won the favor of the Sun King in 1661 and set his course to become the most-produced comic writer in the history of theatre... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 15 total (4 female, 11 male, 2 nonspeaking parts)
    Full Length Comedy (about 85 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • Molière, translated and adapted by Matt DiCintio

    Description

    When two misers return from abroad, their sons find their romances with two mysterious women in peril... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
  • Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon from a literal prose translation by Virginia Scott

    Description

    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.


    Production Info

    Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Matt Lyle

    Description

    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 Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes