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Minimal Set: Plays
For worlds made of bodies, light and language, check out these plays with minimal set requirements. | Image: Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (Jeremy Daniel)
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Animal Farm (Bond)
Nelson Bond, George Orwell
Full-Length Play, Satire/Political Satire 2w, 5mAnimal Farm (Bond)
Nelson Bond ,George Orwell
Full-Length Play, Satire/Political Satire / 2w, 5m
Animal Farm is a fable with a sting. Much has been written about the threat of Communism, but it remained to the late George Orwell, farsighted British author of the brilliant and frightening 1984, to expose the Russian experiment for what it really is; an idealist's dream, converted by realists into a nightmare.
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Athena
Gracie Gardner
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 3wAthena
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w
Mary Wallace and Athena are brave, and seventeen, and fencers, and training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together, they compete against each other, they spend their lives together. They wish they were friends.
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Diary of Lights: New York About 1955
Adrienne Kennedy
Full-Length Play, Drama 4w, 6mDiary of Lights: New York About 1955
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 6m
Part dramatic literature, part dance, and part musical theatre, Diary of Lightsis a window into a part of American culture expressed through the unique voice of one of America's most formidable dramatists.
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Endgame
Samuel Beckett
Full-Length Play, DramaEndgame
Full-Length Play, Drama
"Endgame has outraged the Philistines, earned the contempt of the half wits and filled those who are capable of telling the difference between a theatre and a bawdy house with a profound and somber and paradoxical joy...A magnificent theatrical…
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Eurydice
Sarah Ruhl
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 2w, 5mEurydice
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w, 5m
Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.
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Far Away
Caryl Churchill
Full-Length Play, DramaFar Away
Full-Length Play, Drama
Confronting our deepest fears, Caryl Churchill’s extraordinary play depicts a chilling world where everyone is at war, and not even the birds in the trees or the river below can be trusted.
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For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday
Sarah Ruhl
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 2w, 4mLoading...
For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w, 4m
A loving look at a family's view of death, life and the allure of never growing up.
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Greek
Steven Berkoff
Full-Length Play, Drama 2w, 2mLoading...
Greek
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 2m
This modern adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus is set in London.
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Harry Clarke
David Cale
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy 1mLoading...
Harry Clarke
Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 1m
A sexually charged and hilarious one-man thriller.
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Here We Go
Caryl Churchill
Short Play, DramaLoading...
Here We Go
Short Play, Drama
A short play about death by Caryl Churchill. A funeral party for a man with an adventurous past and a ginger cat that needs a home. Where is he now? Is his heart lighter than a feather? How did he die? And what happens to his friends? Here We Go premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2015.
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How I Learned What I Learned
August Wilson, Todd Kreidler
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 1mLoading...
How I Learned What I Learned
August Wilson ,Todd Kreidler
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1m
Through stories about his first jobs, first loves and experiences with racism, August Wilson recounts his life from his roots to the completion of The American Century Cycle, providing an inside look into one of the most celebrated voices of the 20th century.
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Jack Was Kind
Tracy Thorne
Full-Length Play, Drama 1wLoading...
Jack Was Kind
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w
In this intimate 70-minute monologue, a privileged woman defends and explores her role in her husband's illicit behaviour.
"How could you just sit there?" For ten years, that’s what they’ve asked Jack’s wife. Well, now she's talking.
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Just So (Silverman)
Jan Silverman, Rudyard Kipling
Full-Length Play 6any gender (youth)Loading...
Just So (Silverman)
Jan Silverman , Rudyard Kipling
Full-Length Play / 6any gender (youth)
Playwright Jan Silverman adapts the much beloved Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling into a theatrical and strikingly imaginative stage play that can be performed for and by young theatre lovers. Including favorites tales such as "How the Camel Got His Hump", "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin…
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Lillian
David Cale
Full-Length Play, Drama 1wLoading...
Lillian
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w
A one-actor exploration of two lonely and very different people whose energies and histories intersect to change their lives.
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Love and Information
Caryl Churchill
Full-Length Play, Dramatic ComedyLoading...
Love and Information
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy
Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs.
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My Very Own Story
Alan Ayckbourn
Full-Length Play, Comedy 8w, 9mLoading...
My Very Own Story
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 8w, 9m
Due to an unfortunate triple booking, three storytellers, Peter, Paul and Percy, arrive simultaneously each to tell his own story.
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Not I
Samuel Beckett
Short Play, Drama 1w, 1mLoading...
Not I
Short Play, Drama / 1w, 1m
In this short dramatic monologue set in a pitch-black space, a woman's mouth is illuminated only by a single beam of light as she rapidly relates four incidents from her life.
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On The Exhale
Martín Zimmerman
Full-Length Play, Drama 1wLoading...
On The Exhale
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w
"A carefully wrought study of a mother undone by loss [...] On The Exhaleapproaches the subject of American gun violence from a startlingly original perspective." - The New York Times
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Plot Points In Our Sexual Development
Miranda Rose Hall
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 1gnc (adult)Loading...
Plot Points In Our Sexual Development
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1gnc (adult)
Theo and Cecily want to be honest about their sexual histories, but what happens when telling the truth jeopardizes everything? A contemporary queer love story, Plot Points in Our Sexual Development explores gender, intimacy, and the dangers of revealing yourself to the person you love.
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Pool (No Water)
Mark Ravenhill
Full-Length Play, Drama 2w, 2mLoading...
Pool (No Water)
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 2m
Pool (No Water) is a visceral and shocking new play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success.
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Teechers
John Godber
Full-Length Play, Comedy 1w, 2mLoading...
Teechers
John Godber
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 1w, 2m
Fast-moving and highly entertaining, Teechers evokes life at a modern school. Using the format of an end-of-term play, John Godber's comedy follows a new drama teacher's progress through two terms of recalcitrant classes, synical colleagues and obstructive caretakers.
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The Arsonists
Jacqueline Goldfinger
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 1mLoading...
The Arsonists
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m
A father-daughter arson team burns their relationship to the ground, and then rises from the ashes. A lyrical, heartbreaking, and darkly funny play with music about the eternal bond between parent and child.
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The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls
Keli Goff
Full-Length Play, Drama 3wLoading...
The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w
In the tradition of The Vagina Monologues and For Colored Girls..., The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls is a collection of monologues and scenes featuring voices of Black women from around the globe recalling unforgettable moments in their lives in which their hair – and their complicated relationships with their hair – took center stage.
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The Insanity of Mary Girard
Lanie Robertson
Short Play, Drama 4w, 3mLoading...
The Insanity of Mary Girard
Short Play, Drama / 4w, 3m
In this haunting and highly theatrical piece, Mary Girard, committed to an insane asylum in 1790, envisions dancing “furies” who impersonate people from her past.
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The Way She Spoke
Isaac Gómez
Full-Length Play, Drama 1wLoading...
The Way She Spoke
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w
Based on intimate interviews, The Way She Spoke is a raw and riveting one-actor exploration of the women silenced by violence and fear in the treacherous streets of Juárez, Mexico.
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Tiny Beautiful Things
Nia Vardalos, Cheryl Strayed
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 1w, 3any gender (adult)Loading...
Tiny Beautiful Things
Nia Vardalos ,Cheryl Strayed
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1w, 3any gender (adult)
Critic’s Pick! “Tiny Beautiful Things is about the endangered art of listening to – and really hearing and responding to – other people…it works beautifully as a sustained theatrical exercise in empathy.” – The New York Times