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August Strindberg, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
Richard Nelson's critically lauded adaptation of Strindberg's classic, in which a power struggle between husband and wife leads to devastating consequences.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
A fresh, performable version of Goethe's "unstageable" masterpiece. God and Mephistopheles vie for the mortal soul of Dr Faust... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 240 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Eric Overmyer, an adaptation of Pierre Beaumarchais and Ödön von HorváthDescription
Eric Overmyer's sparkling adaptation and synthesis of Beaumarchais's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO and Ödön von Horváth's FIGARO GETS A DIVORCE... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (6 female, 11 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
August Strindberg, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Ghosts drift through Strindberg's haunted and haunting dreamscape where a student idealizes the inhabitants of a stylish Stockholm apartment building, only to discover that their lives, perhaps even life itself, may be a kind of hell from which salvation can only be achieved through suffering.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (7 female, 7 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated and adapted by Anthony ClarvoeDescription
Ibsen's 1881 masterpiece finds a fresh interpretation in Anthony Clarvoe's taut adaptation in which a woman has to face her legacy of religious and sexual repression when her grown son comes home to tell her that he has an incurable sexually transmitted disease and asks her to help him die with dignity.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
A selfish, cynical woman bored by her marriage to the scholar Jorgen Tesman, Hedda Gabler's father's pair of pistols provide intermittent diversion, as do the attentions of the ne'er-do-well Judge Brack... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Michael BradyDescription
The play chronicles the selfless acts of Janusz Korczak, the teacher and director. Korczak strove to give the children of the Warsaw Ghetto a sense of normalcy despite the horrific conditions and eventually chose to leave with them for the Treblinka death camp... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (4 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
One of Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology. Ellida Wangel cannot give herself fully to her husband because she is overwhelmed by memories of the past and her attraction to the ocean... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 200 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
A displaced American translator, Michael Milick, meets a Polish writer exiled in London to discuss translating one of his novels into English, but all is not as it appears.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary 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
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
Originally published in 1892 and first performed in 1893, THE MASTER BUILDER explores the needs of the artist in relation to those of society and the limits of artistic creativity... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
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
Davey HolmesDescription
MORE LIES ABOUT JERZY explores the life of a celebrated Polish writer, who comes under fire when the veracity of his award-winning Holocaust memoir is questioned... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Jo M Van Ijssel de Schepper-Becker, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
A domestic comedy whose homosexual character is part of an ordinary family that views his sexual orientation as unnatural... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
The title character, based on a legendary Norwegian folk hero, is a rogue who is saved by the love of a woman... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 28 total (10 female, 18 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes