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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...
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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...
Philosophy on Trial
The play is an allegorical farce, in which Lady Philosophy is on trial for corrupting the minds of y...
Photocopy Love
It's just another day in an average photocopying store. Customer, Raf, just wants to get some bindin...
The Physicists
A nurse has been murdered at Les Cerisiers, a private sanitarium run by the world-renowned psychiatr...
A Picasso
In Jeffrey Hatcher’s gripping one-act play A Picasso, the stage is set in Nazi-occupied Paris in 194...
Pizza With Shrimp on Top
What happens to someone who dies by suicide? According to Daniel, they go to limbo, and in the case...
The Plain Dealer
William Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer is the Restoration comedy adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthro...
Playing in Spirit
Derek and Colby, a basketball enthusiast, have come to an empty court to practice. The dark, deserte...
Plumes
Georgia Douglas Johnson’s plays were written during the height of the Harlem Renaissance and offered...
