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Ralph Koltai: Designer for the Stage

Ralph Koltai: Designer for the Stage

Edited by Sylvia Backemeyer Introduction by Trevor Nunn

A stunning full-colour record of half a century of inspired theatre work marking the 80th birthday of one of the UK's most distinguished stage designers.

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Ramallah

Ramallah

By David Greig

A short play about a writer returning home from Palestine to his wife, and being gently challenged as to where exactly his priorities lie.

Ramona Tells Jim

Ramona Tells Jim

By Sophie Wu

A darkly comic debut play about confession and the gravity of young love.

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By debbie tucker green

An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting.

Rank

Rank

By Robert Massey

A darkly comic thriller set in the grim, seething and sometimes hilarious criminal world of Dublin's suburbs.

Rappaccini's Daughter

Rappaccini's Daughter

By Octavio Paz Translated by Sebastian Doggart

The only play by leading Mexican poet Octavio Paz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Rapture

Rapture

By Lucy Kirkwood

A slippery thriller for the stage, about love, power and belief. In a modern world where reality is whatever we imagine it to be, how do we know the stories we tell ourselves are true?

Rathmines Road

Rathmines Road

By Deirdre Kinahan

Fraught, funny, and ferocious, a play that challenges the cultural response to accusations of sexual assault.

Rattigan's Nijinsky

Rattigan's Nijinsky

By Nicholas Wright and Terence Rattigan

The extraordinary story of the relationship between the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, drawing on an unproduced screenplay by Terence Rattigan.

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Raya

Raya

By Deborah Bruce

A witty and tender play about two old flames who meet again, after thirty years, at a student reunion.

Reader

Reader

By Ariel Dorfman

A compulsive, gripping and intense play from the author of Death and the Maiden.

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The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man

The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man

By Tom Wright

A powerful, angry and surprising play about the person who came to be known as 'the Elephant Man', restoring Joseph Merrick to the centre of his own story.

The Real Deal

The Real Deal

By Tom Wentworth

A short monologue play exploring the issue of benefits fraud, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
    The Real Estate

    The Real Estate

    By Freddie Machin

    A sharply observed, epic play combining elements of social realism and satire, which asks: who do our homes really belong to, and who gets to tell our stories? In the Multiplay Drama series.

    The Real Ones

    The Real Ones

    By Waleed Akhtar

    A funny and honest stage play about platonic soulmates. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024.

    Rebecca Hall on Rosalind

    Rebecca Hall on Rosalind

    Performing Shakespeare

    By Rebecca Hall and Julian Curry

    Rebecca Hall discusses playing Rosalind, in this ebook taken from Shakespeare On Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles.

    Rebellious Women

    Rebellious Women

    By Beth Flintoff

    An impassioned, unsentimental and sharp-witted play about the Suffragette cause, with rich opportunities for schools, youth theatres and drama societies who want to tell the story of a group of extraordinary women who changed the world.

    The Recruiting Officer

    The Recruiting Officer

    By George Farquhar

    A classic Restoration-era comedy about the sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, as they go about their task of recruiting soldiers in the town of Shrewsbury.

    Red

    Red

    By Chris Fittock

    A viscerally poetic debut play commissioned by LLT, Liverpool's New Writing Theatre.

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    Red

    Red

    By Somalia Seaton

    An unflinching and bold exploration of the internal lives of young women. Part of Platform, an initiative aimed at addressing gender imbalance in theatre.

    Red Bud

    Red Bud

    By Brett Neveu

    A play exploring the creeping onset of middle age in a group of people increasingly disillusioned by the American Dream.

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    Red Car, Blue Car

    Red Car, Blue Car

    By Jack Thorne

    A heartbreaking short play about guilt, grief and responsibility, written for and performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2011.

    Red Ellen

    Red Ellen

    By Caroline Bird

    A play that tells the remarkable true story of an inspiring and brilliant woman: Ellen Wilkinson, who was a campaigning Labour MP in the 1930s and 40s.

    The Red Helicopter

    The Red Helicopter

    By Robin French

    A thrilling, epic story about innocence, community and the dangerous power of unquestioning belief. In the Multiplay Drama series.