19th Century
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Len JenkinDescription
KRAKEN explores the true-life encounter between legendary American novelists Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1856... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Richard NelsonDescription
Ibsen's rarely performed play, THE LADY FROM THE SEA, was written just before HEDDA GABLER. It is a powerful expression of a woman's search for her own identity, in a world where women are defined by who they are with, instead of who they are or who they could become.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Edmond Rostand, translated by Brian VineroDescription
Don Juan's sexual conquests have gained him an infamous reputation all over Europe. When the Devil himself begins to drag him to Hell, Don Juan makes a bargain: In exchange for another ten years of life, he will commit to doing the Devil's dark work himself by bedding as many women as possible and leaving them wanting and devastated.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male, doubling possible, many female bit parts possible)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Georg Büchner, adapted by Sean GraneyDescription
Büchner's classic is brought to vivid life in Sean Graney's sensational adaptation.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
On the docks of late 18th-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves, Adjua and Dembi, plan a desperate and daring run to freedom... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Pontagnac, an inveterate womanizer, follows Lucienne to her house and makes advances. When her husband appears, who is none other than Vatelin, one of Pontagnac's friends, the kerfuffle is soon settled between them as Vatelin, knowing Pontagnac, forgives him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (6 female, 11 male, doubling possible, female and male bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 180 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Friedrich von Schiller, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (2 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Alan GlassDescription
A love story and a murder mystery, LOVE IN A THIRSTY LAND uses materials from an actual case, the first trial of a Jew for murder in the New World, 1875... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Jeff GoodeDescription
Lord Loveworthy has a problem. His only daughter is soon to be married. And the only way to pay for her wedding is to blackmail the vicar who's seducing his wife... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Eugène Labiche and Èdouard Martin, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
A sardonic comedy about Dutrecy, a man of the most unbridled selfishness, who arranges his life to provide himself maximum comfort... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (2 female, 9 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
August Strindberg, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
In Strindberg's classic, Miss Julie, the daughter of a powerful count, enters into a dangerously flirtatious relationship with a footman on her father's estate... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Megan Terry and Jo Anne MetcalfDescription
A musical presentation of magical and possible events in the lives of two women born in the 19th century.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male, up to 20+ actors)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Neal Bell, from the novel by Mary ShelleyDescription
Adapted from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, MONSTER takes a disturbing yet poignant look at one man's obsession with creating life and the destructive after effects of abandoning his creation.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
Ivan Turgenev's beautiful and subtle comedy of love in a new translation 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: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 170 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Emily MannDescription
Illinois, 1861: Without proof of insanity, Elizabeth Packard is committed by her husband to an asylum... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes