To Choose or not to Choose. A play.

I am currently involved with a group that has had the incredible luxury of total access to a venue to do 4 plays a year and rehearse on the stage, build their sets weeks before the show opens and so on. Unfortunately they have been gently but firmly evicted. They seem to have lost their nerve. I have taken on the job of showing that they can hire a theatre and do a play. I now have to select a play. Problem one, after paying our Public Liability insurance we have very little money left. Well we have some but not enough to pay royalties on a reasonably current play. I am faced with selecting a play that isn't going to cost any advance royalties.

First choice, I am in fact a playwright so have several of my own plays available and could do a percentage deal on door to be paid after the show was over or even just not charge royalties at all. Problems with this are that as has been discussed at some length on this site new plays don't exactly attract large audiences.

Second choice: Shakespeare. Royalty free certainly but do I cut it to reduce cast numbers. Do I do it in period or modern also there are a couple of groups that do Bill every year and I could be seen to be poaching.

Third choice: One of the late 19th C greats. Wilde, Barrie or Jerome. Possibly adapted. I haven't seen "The Importance of Being Ernest" or "Lady Windermere's Fan" for ever and nobody does Jerome or Barrie (possibly for a very good reason). I could dig out a Russian Gem from the same period. Checkov or maybe Gogol. I love "The Inspector General" and it could do with a modern adaptation.

Or is there another choice?

Any suggestions?