Greek
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Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
Medea has abandoned her family and homeland of Colchis for the love of the great hero Jason, and her loyalty, cunning and talents in witchcraft have repeatedly rescued him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (2 female, 7 male, flexible casting, chorus, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Sophocles, translated from the Greek by Laurence SenelickDescription
First performed around 430 BCE, Sophocles' OEDIPUS THE KING remains as shocking a tragedy as it must have been to the ancient Greeks... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (1 female, 7 male, doubling, nonspeaking parts)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaCollection Description
This collection includes three full-length plays: AGAMEMNON, THE LIBATION BEARERS, and THE EUMENIDIES, collectively known as THE ORESTEIA... [read more]
Euripides, adapted into English verse by Brian VineroDescription
After avenging his father Agamemnon's death by slaughtering his mother Clytemnestra, Orestes finds himself tormented by The Furies and pursued by the Argive people who seek to put him to death along with his sister Electra... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male, flexible casting, bit parts, a chorus)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
The first surviving play in the history of Western drama, THE PERSIANS represents a courageous act on the part of its author... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 125 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
Sean GraneyDescription
In THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, Sophocles' seven surviving plays — OEDIPUS, IN TRACHIS, PHILOKTETES, IN COLONUS, AJAX, ELEKTRA and ANTIGONE — combine with music and food to create a stunning portrait of the human condition, where the intermingling of chance and fate yields disquieting results... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 220 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Eric BentleyDescription
A TIME TO DIE might be regarded as a Sophocles Variation, inspired as it is by the ANTIGONE of Sophocles, and A TIME TO LIVE as a Euripides Variation being inspired by the ANDROMACHE of Euripides... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesEric BentleyDescription
A TIME TO DIE might be regarded as a Sophocles Variation, inspired as it is by the ANTIGONE of Sophocles, and A TIME TO LIVE as a Euripides Variation being inspired by the ANDROMACHE of Euripides... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumesadapted from Euripides by Sara FarringtonDescription
In a flash of modern warfare (Ukraine? Afghanistan? Vietnam? Poland? Hiroshima? Israel? Gaza?), a mother loses her child... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes