2025


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Past Plays
2024
Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,”
Wole Soyinka’s “The Trials of Brother Jero”
Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House.”
Desire Under the Elms
The Rivals
On Baile`s Strand
Lost in Yonkers
Master Harold…and the Boys
Bus Stop
She Stoops to Conquer; or the Mistakes of a Night
Riders to the Sea
2023
Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis
The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs by William Inge
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo
Beaumarchais’s The Marriage of Figaro
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
William Inge’s Picnic
Sophocles’ Philoctetes
2022
Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls
Juno and the Paycock
Three Tall Women
Brian Friel’s Translations
Hamlet
Adrenne and Adam Kennedy’s Sleep Deprivation Chamber
Second Shepherds’ Play
Misanthrope by Moliere
Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and Harold
Pinter’s Landscape.
2021
Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo
David Henry Hwang’s “M. Butterfly.”
(Plautus’s Casina) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Wedding
Movie: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Marlowe’s Faustus
Aphra Benn’s The Rover
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
Yasmina Reza’s Art
J.B.
Woyzeck
Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten
Ben Jonson’s Volpone
2020
Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Paula Vogel’s Indecent
Femi Osofisan’s Not All Canoes Sail Back Home
Due to the pandemic the readings below were delivered via Zoom
Aristophanes’ Peace
Nikolai Gogol’s Inspector General
Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman
David Mamet’s Oleanna
Heinar Kipphardt’s In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
David Auburn’s Proof
Euripides’ Bacchae
Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba
Moliere’s Tartuffe
Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo
Paul Lim screened the following videos via his personal Zoom account
The English Alternative Theatre (EAT) production of Amiri Baraka’s “Dutchman”
Jose Garcia Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba”
Moliere’s “Tartuffe” (1978 version with Donald Moffat)
David Auburns “Proof”
Screening of Euripides’ “Bacchae”
2019
- A Raisin in the Sun (movie)
- Shakepeare’s Twelfth Night
- London Globe production of Twelfth Night (video)
- Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
- Aristophones’ Lysistrada
- Chi-Raq (video)
- Marsha Norma’s ‘night, Mother
- Jerome Lawrence’s and Robert E. Lee’s The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
- Eugene Ionesco’s The Lesson
- Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House
- A Doll House (video)
- Shakespeare’s Othello
- Othello (video)
- Paul Lim’s Chambers
2018
- W.H. Auden‘s verse play For the Time Being
- Jean Giraudoux‘s The Madwoman of Chaillot, with a showing of the film adaptation featuring Katharine Hepburn
- Jean Giraudoux‘sTiger at the Gates (The Trojan War Will Not Take Place)
- Arthur Miller‘s The Crucible, with a showing of the film adaptation featuring Daniel Day-Lewis
- Moliere‘s The Misanthrope
- Richard Sheridan‘s The School for Scandal, with a showing of the Greenwich Theatre production of the play in London
- Susan Glaspell‘s Trifles, followed by a showing of a film adaptation of the play
- Simon Stephens‘ adaptation of Mark Haddon‘s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, with the group attending the KU University Theatre production of the play, followed by dinner and discussion at Perkins Restaurant
- Lorraine Hansberry‘s A Raisin in the Sun, with a showing of the film adaptation featuring Sydney Poitier
2017
- Jean Anouilh‘s Waltz of the Toreadors, with a showing of the film adaptation featuring Peter Sellers
- Arthur Miller‘s All My Sons, with a showing of the TV adaptation featuring Aidan Quinn
- John Millington Synge‘s Playboy of the Western World
- George Bernard Shaw‘s Pygmalion, with a showing of the film adaptation featuring Wendy Hiller
- Eugene Ionesco‘s Rhinosceros, with the group attending the KU University Theatre production of the play, followed by dinner and discussion at Perkins Restaurant
- Paul Stephen Lim‘s Flesh, Flash and Frank Harris, with Lim directing a staged reading of the play featuring many Endacott Society members
- Peter Shaffer‘s Amadeus, with a showing of the film adaptation by Milos Forman
2016
- Robert Bolt‘s A Man for All Seasons, with a showing of the film adaptation featuring Paul Scofield
- Marcel Pagnol‘sTopaze, with a showing of the film adaptation featuring John Barrymore
- George Bernard Shaw‘s Mrs. Warren’s Profession
- William Shakespeare‘s The Merchant of Venice, with a showing of the film adaptation featuring Al Pacino
2015
- George Bernard Shaw‘s Major Barbara, with a showing of the film adaptation featuring Wendy Hiller
- Clifford Odets‘ Waiting for Lefty
- Oliver Goldsmith‘s She Stoops to Conquer, with a showing of the stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company
2014
- Thornton Wilder‘s The Skin of Our Teeth
- Richard Sheridan‘s The Rivals, with a showing of the stage production by Bristol’s Old Vic Company
- Thornton Wilder‘s Our Town