Modern Drama

This section contains plays written or premiered after 1945.

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Riddance

1f 2m

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

3f 1m

A bewitching story from the author of global smash hit Jerusalem.

The Road to Huntsville

1f

A 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 4m

A 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

1f 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

8f 6m

A 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

8f 6m

Three 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

1m

A 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: Two

    Rose

    1f 1m

    A 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

    1f

    A dark and uncompromising play about romance, expectation and mortality, James Fritz's Ross & Rachel takes an unflinching look at the myths of modern love.

    Roundabout

    2f 4m

    A play about obsession and delusion, by a major Spanish dramatist.

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