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The Pardoner and the Friar
The Pardoner and the Friar is an allegorical exploration of religion’s politics. The Friar--a travel...
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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...
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...
Photograph 51
It’s the age of scientific discovery in the 1950’s, and researchers are scrambling to be the first t...
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...
