French
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Georges Feydeau, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
This classic French farce was written in 1907. It is, perhaps, Feydeau's best known play, and its intricate choreography draws together two classic farce plots — that of the suspicious wife who sets a trap to expose her faithless partner, and the venerable comic device of mistaken identity.
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (5 female, 9 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 200 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Frank Langella, an adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de BergeracDescription
Frank Langella's gritty, minimalist adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, based on Brian Hooker's translation.
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (3 female, 9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Honoré de Balzac, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
THE FRAUDSTER follows Auguste Mercadet, a man fighting against his creditors and the ruses he uses to escape them.
Production Info
Cast: 15 total (4 female, 11 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickCollection Description
This collection includes five long one-act plays: THE AWFUL TOOTH, BLASTED EVENT, DEAD WRONG, POTTY FAVORS, and SHE CAN'T BARE IT! Master Belle Époque farceur Georges Feydeau loosely based these brilliantly funny long one-acts on the failure of his own marriage... [read more]
Pierre Marivaux, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
The best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights — a sparkling 18th-century comedy of manners based on the simplest of plot devices, the exchanging places of master and valet, mistress and maidservant.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male, 1 bit part)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
A Play with Music — the music of Frederic Chopin. George Sand had many lovers — but the one to whom she was most attached, and who almost ruined her life, was Frederic Chopin... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 125 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
John Strand, music by Dennis McCarthyDescription
A loving homage to Eugène Labiche and the High Vaudeville style he was instrumental in establishing a century and a half ago... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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
Molière, translated by Martin SorrellDescription
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
Tony Kushner, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille's L'ILLUSION COMIQUEDescription
A lawyer, facing mortality, desperate to find the son he drove away years before, travels in the dead of night to a mysterious cave... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon, based on a new translation by Dan SmithDescription
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
Molière, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
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
Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel, translated by Kenneth McLeishDescription
The classic 1851 farce. Fadinard is on the way to his wedding when his horse eats a straw hat hanging on a bush... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 18 total (6 female, 12 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Often described as Feydeau's masterpiece, THE LADY FROM MAXIM'S charts the trials and tribulations of a certain proper Doctor Petypon who wakes up with a hangover only to find in his bed “The Shrimp,” a dancer at the Moulin Rouge and lady of the night... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 28 total (11 female, 17 male, doubling possible, extras)
Full Length Comedy (about 180 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Molière, translated from the French into English by A R Waller, adapted by Steven Pimlott and Colin ChambersDescription
Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery focuses on the women folk of Chrysale's household, who look on all but intellectual pursuits as worthless and spurn love in favour of learning... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (5 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes