Jules Verne’s classic novel Around the World in Eighty Days was published more than 150 years ago, in 1873. We’ve assembled our own twist on Verne’s literary journey with this collection of Concord Theatricals plays that take place in locations all over the globe. Broaden your horizons with this vast array of comedies, dramas, tragedies and mysteries!
In Verne’s story, Phileas Fogg and his companion Passepartout leave London and head east, along this route:
Our list follows a similar path around the planet, though we cover more ground, with plays listed alphabetically under these headings:
- The United Kingdom and Eire
- Western Europe
- Central & Eastern Europe
- Africa
- The Middle East
- Asia
- Oceania
- North America (subdivided into Canada, The United States & Mexico)
- South and Central America
With stories ranging from heartbreaking drama to rib-tickling comedy – and locales ranging from a skyscraper in Dubai to a fishing village in Brazil – this list has something for everyone. So read on and take a theatrical journey Around the World in 80 Plays (and one musical)!
THE UNITED KINGDOM & EIRE
1. Northern Ireland:
Belfast Girls by Jacki McCarrick (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5f)
Escaping the Irish famine in 1850 five young women seek passage on a ship to Australia. They hope for a fresh start, but realize the closer they get to Australia the more powerful the past becomes.
2. England:
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5f, 2m)
Coward’s smash comedy hit offers wit, conflict and big laughs as a fussy, cantankerous novelist finds himself haunted by the ghost of his late first wife.
3. Ireland and Wales:
Celebrated Virgins by Katie Elin-Salt and Eleri B. Jones (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5f, 2m)
This powerful and touching new play celebrates the loving 50-year partnership of two women who left everything in late 18th-century Ireland to begin a new life together in Llangollen, Wales.
4. Ireland:
Faith Healer by Brian Friel (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f, 2m)
In this haunting play, a healer named Frank Hardy offers the promise of redemption to the sick and the suffering in the forgotten corners of the British Isles.
5. Scotland:
Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 9f, 4m, 1 girl, 1 boy)
This extraordinarily moving play of women surviving in the east end of Glasgow in the 1930s tempers the tragedy of appalling housing, unemployment and poverty with a rich vein of comedy.
6. England:
Shebeen by Mufaro Makubika (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 5m)
It’s a hot and humid summer in 1958 St Ann’s, Nottingham. With tempers flaring and Teddy Boys on the march, Jamaican couple Pearl and George help Caribbean migrants cut loose by hosting a forbidden party at their bar.
7. Ireland:
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 5m)
On a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934, young Billy wishes to appear in the local shoot of a Hollywood film, if only to break away from the bitter tedium of his daily life.
8. Channel Islands:
The Dame of Sark by William Douglas-Home (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2f, 7m)
Based on the Dame of Sark’s autobiography: On this Channel Island during the German occupation of 1940-45, relationships develop, and war falls hard on friend and enemy alike.
9. Wales:
The Revlon Girl by Neil Anthony Docking (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5f)
Eight months after the Aberfan Disaster of 1966, in which 144 people were killed (116 of them children), bereaved mothers meet weekly to talk, cry, laugh and get some beauty tips.
WESTERN EUROPE
10. Greece:
A Madhouse in Goa by Martin Sherman (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2f, 4m)
Webs of political, sexual and artistic deception unfold in the Greek islands in this two-part play involving a blackmailing writer in Corfu and a group of expatriates in Santorini.
11. Austria:
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f, 12m)
In the court of the Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a foul-mouthed, graceless oaf who has something beyond the court composer Salieri’s envious grasp: genius.
12. Greece:
Antigone by Sophocles
(Full-Length Play, Drama / Various cast sizes)
Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, fights to bury her brother Polynices against the orders of her uncle, Creon. Concord Theatricals licenses translations of Jean Anouilh’s version by Barbara Bray (UK) and Lewis Galantiere (US/UK), translations of Bertolt Brecht’s version by Robert Cannon (UK), Judith Malina (UK), K I Porter (UK), Nicholas Rudall (US) and Marc Von Henning (UK), and direct interpretations by Jeremy Sams (US) and Jules Tasca (US).
13. Germany:
Bach at Leipzig by Itamar Moses (US)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 7m)
In Leipzig, Germany in 1722, young Johann Sebastian Bach competes to become organist of the Thomaskirche in a fugue-like, farcical web of bribery, blackmail and betrayal.
14. Denmark:
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f, 2m)
In this incisive drama set in 1941, German physicist Werner Heisenberg reunites with his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. Former collaborators, they are now on opposite sides of a world war.
15. Switzerland and Italy:
Daisy Miller by Dawn Keeler, adapted from Henry Miller (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 3m)
In 1878, a young expat meets a strikingly pretty American girl. Though immediately infatuated with each other, they are socially worlds apart, leading to a tragic misjudgment.
16. Italy:
Enrico IV by Luigi Pirandello
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / Various cast sizes)
Pirandello’s savage comedy from 1921 reflects the warp of European reality after World War I, positing that reality is a subjective assumption. Available in translation by Robert Brustein (US), Robert Cornthwaite (US), Frederick May (US), John Reich (US), Tom Stoppard (US/UK) and John Wardle (US).
17. Sweden:
Let The Right One In by Jack Thorne (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f, 6m)
This enchanting, brutal vampire myth and coming-of-age love story, adapted from the best-selling novel and film, pairs a lonely teenage boy and a sinister young girl.
18. Poland, Germany and Sweden:
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
(Full-Length Play, Drama / Various cast sizes)
Bertolt Brecht’s epic masterpiece concerns a sturdy entrepreneur who struggles to exploit war for financial gain, only to find that war means everyone loses. Concord Theatricals licenses translations by Eric Bentley (US/UK), David Hare (US/UK), Lee Hall (UK), Michael Hofmann and John Willett (UK), Hanif Kureishi (UK), Tony Kushner (UK), Ralph Manheim (US/UK), Robert David MacDonald (UK), Peter Watson (UK) and John Willett (UK).
19. France:
Mother of the Maid by Jane Anderson (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 3m)
Joan of Arc’s mother is a sensible, hardworking, God-fearing peasant woman whose faith is upended as she deals with the baffling journey of her odd and extraordinary daughter.
20. Norway:
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
(Full-Length Play / Various cast sizes)
Peer Gynt is a wild, imaginative young man who journeys from outcast among the wanton and dispossessed, only to realize no man can exist isolated and bereft of humanity. Concord Theatricals licenses translations by Rolf Fjelde (US), Christopher Fry and Johan Fillinger (UK) and Paul Green (US). Will Eno’s willfully American take on the play is titled Gnit (US/UK).
21. France:
Prayer for the French Republic by Joshua Harmon (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6f, 10m)
This gorgeous multigenerational drama explores a Jewish family’s relationship to faith, history and safety from a global perspective, covering a span from 1944 to 2014.
22. The Netherlands:
The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, adapted by Wendy Kesselman (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5f, 5m)
In this gripping adaptation, survivor accounts and newly discovered writings by Anne Frank are interwoven to create a contemporary, impassioned story of those persecuted under Nazi rule.
23. Spain:
The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca
(Full-Length Play, Drama / Various cast sizes)
In this lyrical tragedy, a stern matriarch obsessed with family honor forces her five daughters into a traditional 8-year period of cloistered mourning. Concord Theatricals licenses translations by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata (US/UK) and James Graham Lujan and Richard O’Connell (US/UK), as well as a musical adaptation by Michael John LaChiusa (US/UK).
CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE
24. Czechia:
Audience by Vaclav Havel
(Short Play, Drama / 2m)
In Vaclav Havel’s autobiographical one-act set in Prague, a writer – now laboring in a brewery – is offered a better position if he will write reports for the secret police. Available in translation by Vera Blackwell (UK) or Jan Novak (US).
25. Russia:
Collaborators by John Hodge (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 10m)
A disturbingly funny play inspired by historical fact: In 1938 Moscow, dissident Mikhail Bulgakov is offered a poisoned chalice – a commission to write a play celebrating Stalin’s 60th birthday.
26. Romania:
Dracula by Bram Stoker
(Full-Length Play, Drama or Comedy / Various cast sizes)
Bram Stoker’s chilling vampire novel, set in the central Romanian region of Transylvania, has been adapted into numerous stage works, from comedies to thrillers. Concord Theatricals adaptations include Count Dracula (US/UK), Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (US/UK), The House of Dracula (US/UK) and The Passion of Dracula (US).
27. Poland:
Messiah by Martin Sherman (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 2m)
In 1665 Poland, after the Cossack uprising left the Jewish community decimated and impoverished, Rachel and her family journey to Gallipoli in hopes of meeting the Messiah.
28. Bosnia & Herzegovina:
No Candy by Emma Stanton (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6f, 1m)
A group of Bosnian Muslim women run a gift shop near the Srebrenica memorial. Each woman copes, privately and publicly, with the particular trauma she experienced during the war.
29. Serbia & Croatia:
Tesla’s Letters by Jeffrey Stanley (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2f, 2m)
In war-torn Croatia in 1997, an American Ph.D. candidate sets out to find Nikola Tesla’s doomsday device, leading her to strike a complicated and dangerous bargain.
30. Moscow:
The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls by Meg Miroshnik (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 6f)
In 2005, 20-year-old Annie returns to her native Russia, where she discovers an enchanted motherland teeming with evil stepmothers, wicked witches, and ravenous bears.
AFRICA
31. Uganda:
Cardboard Piano by Hansol Jung (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2f, 2m)
On the eve of the millennium, the daughter of American missionaries and a local teenage girl steal into a darkened church to seal their love in a secret, makeshift wedding ceremony.
32. Zimbabwe & the US:
In the Continuum by Danai Gurira & Nikkole Salter (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2f)
Two women, one in South Central LA and the other in Zimbabwe, experience a kaleidoscopic weekend of life-changing revelations in this story grappling with the devastating impact of AIDS.
33. Africa (country unspecified):
Les Blancs (The Whites) by Lorraine Hansberry (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f, 8m, 5 any gender, 1 boy or girl)
Set in a white Christian mission in a colony about to explode, Les Blancs prophetically confronts the consequences of white colonialism and the imperatives of Black liberation.
34. Zimbabwe and the UK:
Malindadzimu by Mufaro Makubika (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f, 2m)
When a mother moves her family from Nottingham back to her native Zimbabwe, she and her teenage daughter struggle with their multicultural heritage and uncover a haunting history.
35. South Africa:
“Master Harold”…and the Boys by Athol Fugard (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3m)
Loosely autobiographical, this searing, apartheid-era coming-of-age story concerns a white teen and the two Black waiters who work in his mother’s tearoom in Port Elizabeth.
36. Egypt:
Murder on the Nile by Agatha Christie (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5f, 8m)
This three-act murder mystery, adapted from Christie’s Death on the Nile, explores the aftermath of a shocking and brutal murder on a honeymoon cruise down the Nile.
37. South Africa:
My Children! My Africa! by Athol Fugard (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f, 2m)
A humble and humane Black teacher in a segregated township struggles to persuade just one young person that education, not violence, is the answer to South Africa’s problems.
38. Somalia:
The Body of an American by Dan O’Brien (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2m)
Two men are connected when a stark photograph – of the body of an American dragged from the wreck of a Blackhawk through the streets of Mogadishu – reshapes global events.
39. Uganda:
The Rolling Stone by Chris Urch (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f, 3m)
In a country subjected to severe anti-gay laws, two brothers clash – one a gay man in a clandestine relationship, and the other a church pastor fervently railing against homosexuality.
THE MIDDLE EAST
40. Israel & Palestine:
Ali & Dahlia by Tariq Jordan (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f, 2m)
Accused of rioting, Ali waits in an Israeli interrogation room. When an old lover steps in to defend him, they both must confront their past and the political forces that shaped their lives.
41. United Arab Emirates:
Dubailand by Carmen Nasr (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 4m)
On the 88th floor of an unfinished skyscraper in Dubai’s glittering skyline, a migrant laborer becomes fatefully connected to Jamie, a British expat with his eye on the big time.
42. Iran:
English by Sanaz Toossi (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4f, 1m)
In this intricate, hilarious and profound play, four adult students in 2008 Karaj, Iran prepare for the TOEFL — the Test of English as a Foreign Language.
43. Israel:
Golda’s Balcony by William Gibson (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f)
In 1973, on the eve of the Yom Kippur War, Golda Meir tells the story of her life, dramatically exploring idealism, power and the strength required to shape the destiny of a nation.
44. Iran:
Wish You Were Here by Sanaz Toossi (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5f)
Set in Iran from 1978 to 1991, this comedy-drama explores the evolving relationships among a group of five women during the escalation, height and aftermath of the Iranian Revolution.
ASIA
45. South Korea:
Among the Dead by Hansol Jung (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 2f, 1m, 1 any gender)
Three separate time periods – 1944, ’50 and ’75 – collide in a small hotel room in Korea, mediated by a shape-shifting Jesus who first shows up as a bellboy.
46. Japan:
Enjoy (Ogawa) by Toshiki Okada, translated by Aya Ogawa (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4f, 6m)
Set in a GenX bookstore, acclaimed Japanese director/playwright Toshiki Okada’s chronicle of post-college ennui explores 21st-century relationships in Japan’s Lost Generation.
47. China:
Lady Precious Stream by S.I. Hsiung (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 8f, 13m)
This romantic drama of love, treachery and poetry – presented in the style of traditional Chinese theatre – concerns a devoted wife and her adventurous warrior husband.
48. Thailand:
Made in Bangkok by Anthony Minghella (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5f, 7m)
Written by the writer/director of The English Patient, this play about five English tourists in Bangkok explores British imperialism and the exploitation of indigenous culture.
49. India:
Made in India by Satinder Kaur Chohan (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f)
In a surrogacy clinic in Gujarat, Dr. Gupta oversees the meeting of Londoner Eva, who yearns to become a mother, and village girl Aditi, who sees surrogacy as a lifeline out of poverty.
50. Indonesia:
Rights of Passage by Robert Leone and Ed Decker (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2f, 6m)
Through puppetry, masks, dance and digital media, this powerful play expands from one Indonesian’s journey to many true stories of LGBTQ struggles and triumphs around the world.
51. China:
The Great Leap by Lauren Yee (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1f, 3m)
When an American college basketball team travels to Beijing for a “friendship” game in the post-Cultural Revolution 1980s, both countries try to tease out the politics of the sport.
52. India:
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
(Full-Length Play, Comedy or Drama / Various cast sizes)
In Kipling’s classic tale, Mowgli, the “man-cub” raised among wolves, must eventually return to the world of Man. Concord Theatricals licenses two adaptations of the stories, by John Hartoch (UK) and Tracey Power (UK).
53. Saigon and the US:
Vietgone by Qui Nguyen (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2f, 3m)
Skipping back and forth from the dramatic 1975 evacuation of Saigon to the present, playwright Qui Nguyen tells the story of his parents’ courtship in his own uniquely infectious style.
54. Singapore:
White Pearl by Anchuli Felicia King (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 5f, 1m)
In this dark comedy pointedly addressing racism, a draft of the latest skin cream ad from Singapore-based cosmetic brand Clearday™ leaks and goes viral for all the wrong reasons.
55. South Korea:
Wild Goose Dreams by Hansol Jung (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 4m)
A North Korean defector and a South Korean goose father find each other online in this story about modern aspirations exploring the miracle of quiet intimacy in a contemporary world.
56. India:
Zameen by Satinder Kaur Chohan (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f, 4m)
In Punjab, an aging Sikh cotton farmer’s children dream of a better life in “Amrika.” Zameen (“Land”) captures a world in transition as nature, tradition and globalization violently collide.
OCEANIA
57. Australia:
Just the Ticket by Peter Quilter (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 6f)
Eccentric Susan celebrates her 60th birthday by revisiting Australia for the first time in 40 years. Rekindling love, she reflects on life, loneliness, friendship and the trials and joys of aging.
58. Australia:
Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker and Thomas Keneally (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5f, 17m)
In Botany Bay in 1789, Lieutenant Clark attempts to mount a production of Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer with a motley bunch of villains, murderers and prostitutes.
NORTH AMERICA
– CANADA
59. Preston:
Glory by Tracey Power (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4f, 1m)
Inspired by the true story of Canada’s own Preston Rivulettes: In 1933, four female athletes overcome the odds to prove to Canada that hockey isn’t just a sport for men.
60. Toronto:
Kim’s Convenience by Ins Choi (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2f, 3m)
This dramatic comedy about a Korean Canadian family who run a small store is a hilarious and heartwarming ode to generations of immigrants who have made Canada their home.
– THE UNITED STATES
61. Pennsylvania:
August Wilson’s Jitney by August Wilson (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f, 8m)
In the autumn of 1977, cab drivers at a makeshift taxi company in the Hill District of Pittsburgh wrestle with economic repression, incarceration and father/son relationships.
62. Massachusetts:
Becky Nurse of Salem by Sarah Ruhl (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 4f, 3m)
An ordinary but strong-willed grandmother – the descendant of a woman infamously executed for witchcraft in 1692 – visits a local witch for help in raising her troubled granddaughter.
63. Illinois:
Evanston Salt Costs Climbing by Will Arbery (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2f, 2m)
Two salt truck drivers battle ice and snow and pass the time with jokes and stories, confronting humanity’s darkest fears with humor and warmth in this play about climate and change.
64. Mississippi:
Follow Me to Nellie’s by Dominique Morisseau (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5f, 3m)
In 1955 Mississippi, at Nellie Jackson’s place, a hopeless blues singer seeks a way out, a brave freedom fighter seeks a way in, and a house of downtrodden women seek a new day.
65. Idaho:
Greater Clements by Samuel D. Hunter (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 3m)
In a former mining town, as wealthy out-of-staters displace local blue-collar workers, the divorced owner of a failing Mine Tour and Museum business cares for her troubled adult son.
66. Northern California:
King of the Yees by Lauren Yee (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2f, 3m)
When her father goes missing, Lauren Yee plunges into the rabbit hole of San Francisco Chinatown in an epic joyride across cultural, national and familial borders.
67. Arizona:
Monsoon Season by Lizzie Vieh (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1f, 1m)
In Phoenix, Arizona, recently separated couple Danny and Julia spiral into chaos. This romantic comedy for a toxic world comes alive with biting humor and blinding insight.
68. Florida:
Our Town (Multilingual) by Thornton Wilder, trans. by Nilo Cruz & Jeff Augustin (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 7f, 10m)
Premiering at Miami New Drama, this adaptation of Wilder’s play is infused with layers of culture and community. Presented in English, Spanish and Creole, it celebrates Grover’s Corners as an international address.
69. New York:
Plaza Suite by Neil Simon (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5f, 7m)
Hilarity abounds and the quips fly fast in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at New York City’s famed Plaza Hotel.
70. Washington, DC:
POTUS by Selina Fillinger (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 7f)
In this uproarious Broadway hit, seven brilliant and beleaguered women risk life, liberty and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
71. Northern California:
Water & Power by Richard Montoya (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 7m)
In this modern noir, everything hangs in the balance as two brothers, sons of a hardworking immigrant, meet in room #13 of the Motel Paradise on the eastern edge of Sunset Boulevard.
– MEXICO
72. Northern Mexico:
El Nogalar by Tanya Saracho (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 1m)
In this modern-day Cherry Orchard, the Galvan family returns to Northern Mexico to reclaim their pecan orchard, but the land they once knew has been overtaken by a drug war.
73. Baja California:
i put the fear of mexico in ’em by Matthew Paul Olmos (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f, 2m)
Two adventure-seeking Americans encounter a Mexican couple in Tijuana, setting off a humorous and complex dance that challenges notions of boundaries, safety and identity.
74. Chihuahua:
So Go the Ghosts of Mexico (Part One) by Matthew Paul Olmos (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f, 4m)
In this darkly humorous drama, a 22-year-old woman boldly volunteers to replace the recently murdered local police chief, shocking her husband, the Narcos and the entire country.
CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
75. Chile:
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f, 2m)
In this white-knuckle thriller set in a Chile-like country emerging from a totalitarian dictatorship, a woman turns the tables on a man whom she believes supervised her prison torture sessions.
76. El Salvador:
El Salvador by Rafael Lima (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f, 6m)
In this lacerating, documentary-style portrait of contemporary journalism, a group of opportunistic American newsmen in 1981 El Salvador exploit the atrocities of guerrilla war.
77. Belize:
Jabiru by Margaret Johnson (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1f, 2m)
Two young people who were strongly influenced by a man living in a nature reserve in Belize return to find him still in residence at the reserve, while they have moved on with their lives.
78. Trinidad:
Meetings by Mustapha Matura (US)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 2f, 1m)
In an ultra-modern kitchen in Trinidad, a successful couple has stocked everything but food. As the wife busily markets cigarettes, local people begin coughing up blood and dying.
79. Cuba:
The Cook by Eduardo Machado (US)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f, 2m)
For 40 years, cook Gladys maintained the mansion her employer Adria fled during Castro’s revolution. When Adria’s daughter returns, Gladys confronts harsh truths about Cuba’s cultural divide.
80. Brazil:
The River Bride by Marisela Treviño Orta (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f, 3m)
In a small fishing village, three days before a wedding, a handsome and mysterious man is fished from the Amazon River, inciting a tale of true love, regret and the loyalty of two sisters.
AND… ONE MUSICAL!
Around the World in Eighty Days by Phil Willmott, Annemarie Lewis Thomas & Jules Verne (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 25 any gender)
Freely adapted from the novel by Jules Verne, set in 1883, this delightful musical tells the story of Phileas Fogg and his servant, Passepartout, as they embark on a whistle-stop journey to satisfy a wager that they can circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days.
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