French
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Alfred de Musset, adapted by John StrandDescription
Alfred de Musset's 1832 play depicts Lorenzo de Medici, the 16th-century Florentine nobleman who killed his tyrannical cousin but did not establish a republican government afterwards and was forever disgraced by a debaucherous past.
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (4 female, 8 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
Jean Giraudoux, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
Originally written to protest thoughtless urban renewal, THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT has remained remarkably up-to-date... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male, Flexible Casting)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Pierre Beaumarchais, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
A Count's valet prepares to marry the Countess' chambermaid — until it becomes clear the Count wishes to revive an old law that will allow him to take advantage of the bride before the wedding... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (4 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
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
Molière, adapted by Constance CongdonDescription
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
Molière, adapted by Virginia ScottDescription
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
Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
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
Molière, translated and slightly abridged and adapted by Felicia LondréDescription
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
Jean Racine, translated by Julie RoseDescription
Racine's 1677 reworking of Euripides's HIPPOLYTUS, celebrated for its tragic construction and the richness of its language... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (5 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickDescription
Inspired by Feydeau's wife's obsession with giving the children laxatives, especially his eldest son, Jacques, every character is despicable for their moral cowardice and egoism, providing a hopeless (but hilarious) environment for child-rearing.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male, 1 child)
Short Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Molière, translated and adapted by Matt DiCintioDescription
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 CostumesGeorges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickDescription
What to do about a wife going around the apartment in her nightie until lunchtime?
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Short Comedy (about 40 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Molière, adapted by Constance Congdon from a literal prose translation by Virginia ScottDescription
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
Neal Bell, adapted from the novel by Emile ZolaDescription
The story of a young woman forced into an unhappy marriage to her dull, sickly cousin and smothered by her overbearing aunt... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes