"Let’s turn back time! Period pieces give actors, directors, and designers the chance to look outside themselves and explore a specific point in history. This is a handy way for educational theatre to teach across the curriculum and a great way for community and professional theatres to lean into the dramaturgical challenging of finding just the right aesthetic approach to communicate another point in time. The plays below explore evocative and specific moments in our past in ways that are historic, mythic, and fantastic in turns. I hope that artists can use these scripts to inform our present and our future."—playwright and dramaturg Lainie Vansant