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5m

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

Rappaccini's Daughter

2f 3m, plus 1m/f

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

Rapture

4-5f 2-3m

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

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.

    The Recruiting Officer

    4f 13m, plus extras

    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.

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