Three recently dead strangers arrive in hell, which is represented as a Second Empire drawing room. Estelle is a nymphomaniac who drove her lover to suicide when she killed their illegitimate child; Inez is a lesbian who corrupted her cousin's wife and drove her to suicide; and Garcin is a militant pacifist who betrayed his own cause and was shot while attempting to escape. They discover that in the economy of hell each is designed to to serve as the torturer of the others. Realizing that Hell is other people they decide to ignore one another.
Sartre The Flies
Orestes, a still uncommitted young intellectual, returns to Argos, the city of his birth, to seek the meaning of life. He finds a cowering, servile city, doing penance for having been the silent accomplice years before to the murder of Orestes father, Agamemnon. Orestes meets his sister Electra and later discloses his identity to her. She rejoices, having awaited his return to avenge Agamemnon's honor.
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Tom Wingfield recalls his life in St. Louis with his mother Amanda and his sister Laura. Laura is a shy, slightly crippled girl who takes refuge from the world in her collection of glass animal figurines. Amanda tries to keep her children up to the social level to which she aspires. She tries to make Laura get an education and constantly asks Tom to bring gentleman callers for Laura to meet. During a fight with his mother, Tom accidentally breaks Laura's menagerie.
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
The family's Mississippi estate gone, Blanche DuBois arrives at the New Orleans tenement home of her sister and her brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski. Blanches faded gentility clashes with Stanley's animal vitality. In vying with him for Stella's allegiance, she finds herself no match for his sexual hold over her sister. Blanche tries to charm, Mitch, one of Stanley's poker pals, into marrying her. Her genteel ways attract him and she completes her conquest by telling him of her loneliness since the suicide of her homosexual husband.
Miller Death of a Salesman
Miller The Crucible
Pinter The Homecoming
Teddy after being away for six years brings his wife, Ruth, home to meet his family. The family has been womanless since the death of Teddy's mother. Teddy and Ruth arrive unexpectedly in the middle of the night and walk about separately. When one of Teddy's brothers meets Ruth, she offers herself to him. In the morning when it is discovered that she is Teddy's wife, Teddy's father calls her a tart. All of Teddy's brothers take to his wife and he leaves alone.
Pinter The Birthday Party
An extremely lethargic man named Stanley, lives in a house with a family and lies in bed all day long. He is pursued by a young woman named Meg, the owner of the house. Two visitors come with the intent of doing a job. They watch Stanley and he gets very nervous. He lashes out at each of the men and at the two women in the house. The men, claiming that Stanley has had a nervous break down, take Stanley with them and promise to take good care of him.
Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Play in which Hamlet is seen from the point of view of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two student friends of Hamlet brought by Claudius to the Danish court to determine the nature of Hamlet's malady. The two embark with Hamlet for England, but he escapes and fools them into setting up their own death.
Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
MacLeish J.B.
Beckett Waiting for Godot
Ionesco The Lesson
A one-act absurdist demonstration of the dangers of indoctrination. A student appears at the professor's house to be coached for her examination. Throughout the lesson, the professor becomes increasingly impatient. He begins to belittle the student and finally loses his temper completely. (For no apparent reason) As he and his maid are discussing his strange behavior, he explains that teaching Philology always leads to crime.
Ionesco Rhinoceros
An anti-Nazi play yet an attack on the collective hysteria and the epidemics that lurk beneath the surface of reason and ideas. Nursing a hangover, Berenger shows little interest in the fact that a rhinoceros is loose in the city. He is much more concerned with his quarrel with his friend Jean and his love for Daisy, a pretty secretary. When he arrives at his office, he finds that the employees are shedding their human characteristics and becoming like rhinoceroses. Later, Daisy also becomes a rhinoceros. Soon, Jean is the only human left and he must defend humanity.