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Our Country's Good
Inspired by the historical events surrounding the “first fleet” of British convicts sentenced to tra...
Our Lady of Kibeho
In 1981, at Kibeho College in Rwanda, a young girl claims to have seen the Virgin Mary. Disbelieved...
Out of Tune
Louise and Charlie are on a a contentious date at Lincoln Center, ahead of seeing The King And I in...
The Outside
Susan Glaspell’s The Outside is a symbolic short play concerning two women and their attempt to shie...
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Over the Tavern
The first in a trilogy of plays about the Pazinski family, Over the Tavern is set in Autumn 1959. Th...
Pandora's Box
Pandora’s Box is the second half of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays, the first half being Earth Spirit....
The Pardoner and the Friar
The Pardoner and the Friar is an allegorical exploration of religion’s politics. The Friar--a travel...
Party Girl
A young lawyer arrives at his cousin's bachelor party hoping for a fun night out. However, he is dis...
The Penelopiad
Penelope, the wise and patient wife of the ancient Greek hero Odysseus, has passed beyond the veil o...
Phaedra
The Athenian queen Phaedra believes she is the most wretched woman. Her husband--who kidnapped her a...
The Philanderer
The play opens in the drawing room of a fashionable London flat in 1893, where Leonard Charteris, a...
The Philanthropist
The Philanthropist is Christopher Hampton’s revisioning of Moliere’s classic French play, The Misant...
