Titus Maccius Plautus

A comedy - although with human trafficking. Also a tempest, a shipwreck or two (described by the actors but invisible to the audience - and…

About two dozen comedies of the Roman playwright Plautus have survived the years, with many of them ending up rewritten and recast by other …

Buried treasure, reckless son, exile, young love, betrayal, detection - all as relevant today as when this comedy was written 2200 years ago…

Twin sisters, separated at birth to different lands. Later, Mnesilochus falls in love with one of them, only to see his friend Pistoclerus a…

Pleusicles loves Philocomasium, but she is kidnapped by Pyrgopolinices. Palaestrio, faithful servant to Pleusicles, witnesses this and goes …

The gods Jupiter and Mercury take the forms of Amphitryon and Sosia to visit Alcmena just before her husband Amphitryon returns from the war…