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Franca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A young woman invites her boyfriend up to her room. If her father wakes up, he'll cut off the young man's balls with an ax... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Luigi Pirandello, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
Nobel Prize–winner Luigi Pirandello's ENRICO IV concerns a passionate and despairing 20th-century man who imagines himself to be an 11th-century king.
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (2 female, 11 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Eduardo De Filippo, English version by Eric BentleyDescription
In Eduardo De Filippo's classic Neapolitan tale, Filumena, a former prostitute, has been living with with shopkeeper Domenico for 25 years... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (5 female, 8 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Jonathan J SamarroDescription
When Thomas D'Angelo pays a long overdue visit to his Italian grandparents, he soon finds himself caught in the middle of the ongoing, if farcical, war between the two... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Richard Nelson, from a literal translation by Erika GastelliDescription
This Goldoni comedy recounts the matrimonial scheming, gossip, and games enlivening the daily activity of a bustling but poor Venetian piazza where gaming, dancing and pandemonium reign... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (6 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesFranca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A woman relates her story of torture as a political prisoner.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Carlo Gozzi, translated and adapted by Natalya BaldygaDescription
From the adaptor's note: This play is full of transformations, and through the act of adaptation, it has undergone transformations of its own... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, a chrous, bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
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 CostumesFranca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A mother becomes a gypsy in order to pursue her son who has joined a commune.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Niccolò Machiavelli, adapted by Peter MaloneyDescription
Machiavelli's 16th-century comedic classic. Callimaco wishes to bed Lucrezia, though she is the wife of the aging Nicia... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesFranca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A rebellious woman reacts to betrayal by resorting to infanticide.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesFranca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
An introduction to the monologue MEDEA.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 5 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesFranca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A prostitute tells her life story to a psychiatrist.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesFranca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
The introduction to ORGASMO ADULTO ESCAPES FROM THE ZOO.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
The famous long-nosed hero returns home to Italy a changed man after the experience of his success in Hollywood and America.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes