Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Rathmines Road

3f 2m

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

Rattigan's Nijinsky

4f 7m doubling

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.

Raya

2f 1m plus 1 ten-year-old girl

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

The Real & Imagined History of the Elephant Man

Flexible casting: minimum 5 performers doubling (more than 30 parts in total)

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

1f

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

    18-21f 14-18m

    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

    1f 3m

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

    Rebellious Women

    7-8f 5-6m plus extras

    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.

    Red

    2f 1m

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

    Red

    5f plus chorus

    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

    2f 4m

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

    Red Car, Blue Car

    1f 1m plus 1f 2m non-speaking

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

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