Raging: Wild Sky
The Rising
A play exploring the extraordinary energy and complexity of events in Ireland in the lead up to the Easter Rising of 1916.
Ramona Tells Jim
A darkly comic debut play about confession and the gravity of young love.
Rappaccini's Daughter
By Octavio Paz Translated by Sebastian Doggart2f 3m, plus 1m/fThe only play by leading Mexican poet Octavio Paz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Raya
2f 1m plus 1 ten-year-old girlA witty and tender play about two old flames who meet again, after thirty years, at a student reunion.
The Real Ones
1f 3mA funny and honest stage play about platonic soulmates. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024.
The Recruiting Officer
4f 13m, plus extrasA 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.
Reunion
By Mark O'Rowe5f 5mAn exhilarating, high-wire drama about the deep currents of family life, set over a family reunion on an island off the west coast of Ireland. Premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in 2024.
The Revenger's Tragedy
3f 13m, plus extrasA Jacobean tale of personal vengeance in a morally bankrupt world. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
The Rivals
4f 8mOne of the best-known eighteenth-century comedies of manners, Sheridan's first play, and still his most popular. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
The River
3f 1mA 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.
The Roaring Girl
By Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton5f 15mA hilarious city comedy by the authors of A Mad World, My Masters and The Shoemaker's Holiday. features the text edited for the RSC production, and introductions by key members of its creative team. Part of the RSC's Roaring Girls season.
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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