...The complicated relationship between the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell is revealed in nearly thirty years’ worth of correspondence. Taken from their exchange of letters, Dear Elizabeth is a study in friendship, intimacy...
Acts: 3, Scenes: 30, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)
...In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine.
Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles...
Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)
...When Ann thinks of her father, she immediately remembers playing Peter Pan in her hometown theatre in Iowa, particularly when he used to bring her flowers after her performance. Her memory is jogged by the fact that she and her four...
Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)
...At a dinner party in New Jersey, two couples discuss polyamory as brought up by the introduction of a new temp, Pip, in Jane’s office. When they invite Pip and her two male partners, discussion turns to action and the exploration...
Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)
...In the Next Room, or the vibrator play is a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity.
Set in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat...
Scenes: 43, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)
...Mary, always late and always married, meets a lady cowboy outside the city limits of Pittsburgh who teaches her how to ride a horse. Mary’s husband, Crick, buys a painting with the last of their savings. Mary and Crick have a baby...
Scenes: 28, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)
...Tilly’s melancholy is of an exquisite quality. She turns her melancholy into a sexy thing, and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy, and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours...
Acts: 2, Scenes: 66, Roles: Total (27), Female (10), Male (17), Unassigned (0)
...This intimate epic occurs at the timely intersection of politics and religion, centred on a community of players rehearsing their annual staging of the Easter Passion in three different eras: 1575 Northern England, just before Queen...