Modern Drama
This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.
Riddance
A chilling emotional thriller about two men and a woman bound together by the secrets of surviving a childhood in a Glasgow tenement.
The River
A bewitching story from the author of global smash hit Jerusalem.
The Road to Huntsville
1fA short play about a writer researching women who fall in love with men on death row, who then finds herself crossing the line.
Roaring Trade
2f 4mA fast-paced and astute satire exposing just how far people go for the highest-risk jobs in the City.
Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist
By Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth1f 2m 1f/m plus large ensemble (playing 28 named characters)A charming retelling of the Robin Hood adventure - festive fun for all the family. Premiered at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, in 2024.
Rock
By Chris Bush8f 6mA play about family, heritage and legacy, part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.
Rock / Paper / Scissors
Three Plays
By Chris Bush8f 6mThree intricately interwoven plays about family, heritage and legacy, centring around a Sheffield manufacturing family.
Rockets and Blue Lights
4f 6m doubling (or 10f 14m plus extras)The Alfred Fagon Award-winning play that retells British history through the prism of the slave trade.
Room 303
By Enda Walsh1mA short monologue inspired by the Third Epistle of John and first produced by the Bush Theatre, London, as part of the Sixty-Six Books season in 2011.
Published in volume Enda Walsh Plays: TwoRose
By Hywel John1f 1mA heartbreaking study of heritage, grief and family, Rose is a powerful drama about a Middle-Eastern immigrant's struggle to raise his daughter 'the English way'.
Ross & Rachel
By James Fritz1fA dark and uncompromising play about romance, expectation and mortality, James Fritz's Ross & Rachel takes an unflinching look at the myths of modern love.
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Amateur Productions
On Now & Coming SoonBill Bryson, Adapted by Tim WhitnallFin KennedyAmanda WhittingtonAlexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate SummerscaleAmanda WhittingtonHenrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard EyreTom WellsJeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey