Theatre Communications Group, 2005

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Roles: Total (5), Female (4), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...In this fresh take on Euripides' tragicomedy, Helen never went to Troy but spent the war fought in her name in an Egyptian hotel room waiting for her husband Menelaus to come find her and take her home. In her odd exile, Helen receives...

Theatre Communications Group, 2005

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (6), Female (5), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...This three-play cycle is a modern retelling of the fall of the House of Atreus. It follows the children of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, siblings who are both players in the family tragedy and victims of it. The cycle of blood and vengeance...

Theatre Communications Group, 2005

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Roles: Total (12), Female (8), Male (2), Unassigned (2)

...This fresh, fast-paced comedy, inspired by the Aristophanes play, follows Lysistrata, an Athenian housewife, who calls for the women of Greece to help end the Peloponnesian War. She proposes a radical plan: all Greek women must refuse...

Theatre Communications Group, 2005

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Roles: Total (8), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (1)

...A plague grips the city of Thebes. Desperate to save his people, King Oedipus sends a messenger to the oracle at Delphi and discovers that the city's salvation lies in finding and punishing the murderer of the former king, Laius, who...

Theatre Communications Group, 2005

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Roles: Total (11), Female (2), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...In this moving and poetic adaptation of Aeschylus' drama, Queen Atossa and her subjects anxiously await news of their King Xerxes' expedition to Greece. What they hear is inconceivably horrifying: the vast Persian Empire has fallen...

Theatre Communications Group, 2005

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Roles: Total (7), Female (5), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...In the wake of their devastating defeat, the women of Troy, all now widows, wait on the beach below the ravaged city to be claimed by their Greek conquerors as slaves and concubines. Though the war is over, exile and degradation lie ahead...