Eastenders has produced almost 60 full-length and one-act plays since 1990. Our highly-acclaimed one-act festivals began in 1999 as the company recommitted to nuturing the talents of our repertory acting ensemble. Each of our one-act festivals has featured a different theme and a wide variety of the 20th Century’s most influential playwrights, performed in rotating repertory by a core troupe of performers.

2008-2009

Pride Open, a multi-disciplinary ensemble work directed by Charles E. Polly.

100 Years of Queer Theatre, a co-production with Theatre Rhinoceros - 8 plays in repertory:
The Dangerous Precaution (Mikhail Kuzmin), The Dove (Djuna Barnes), And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens... (Tennessee Williams), Ruffian on the Stair (Joe Orton), T-Shirts (Robert Patrick), Giving up the Ghost (Cherríe Moraga), Bad Dream (Craig Lucas), Terminating, or Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein, or Ambivalence (Tony Kushner)

Frozen (Bryony Lavery)

2007-2008 season

3 Vanek Plays (Vaclav Havel)
Audience, Unveiling and Protest

2006-2007 season

Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (Bertolt Brecht)

2005-2006 season
100 Years of Sex-Acts - 6 plays in repertory:
Playing With Fire (August Strindberg), The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in His Garden (Federico García Lorca), And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens... (Tennessee Williams), Dialogue Between A Prostitute and Her Client (Dacia Maraini), Three More Sleepless Nights (Caryl Churchill), and Edward Albee’s Marriage Play.

Pinteresque
The Lover (Harold Pinter), An Intermission Play (Scott Munson), Extra Ordinary (Jeff Thompson), Games (Rebecca Moutray), The New Breakup (Isaiah Dufort), and The Beginning (Chales E. Polly)

2004-2005 season
100 Years of Political Theatre - 6 plays in repertory:
The Bedbug (Vladimir Mayakovsky), The Informer (Bertolt Brecht), Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act (Athol Fugard), Audience (Vaclav Havel), Far Away (Caryl Churchill), and The Retreating World (Naomi Wallace).

Two full-length world-premieres by local playwrights in repertory:
WWJD? (Scott Munson) and A Knight’s Escape (Charles E. Polly)

Further archive information coming soon.