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The Rape of Lucretia
The Rape of Lucretia revolves around a bet made between three Roman officers, Collatinus, Junius, an...
Real Women Have Curves
Real Women Have Curves takes place in a sewing factory in East Los Angeles, where a group of five La...
Redhead
In the heyday of music halls in Victorian London, a young actress is murdered by a mysterious strang...
References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot
In References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, Gabriela, the wife of a soldier recently returned from t...
The Reporter
Nicholas Wright’s The Reporter begins with a suicide note: “I can’t bear it anymore, though I don’t...
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Arturo Ui is a small-time gangster down on his luck. With the economy depressed and a lack of action...
Reunion in Vienna
Elena Krug pines for her old love, Prince Rudolf Maximilian Von Hapsburg, formerly a prince of the A...
Riders to the Sea
Set on the remote island of Inishmaan, Synge’s intensely tragic play Riders to the Sea tells the sto...
Full Text
Set on the remote island of Inishmaan, Vaughan-William’s intensely tragic opera is based on J.M. Syn...
Roberto Devereux
Queen Elisabetta I of England has fallen in love with Roberto Devereux, Earl of Essex, but suspects...
La Rondine
Magda de Civry has always dreamed of romance. As a young girl, she was swept off her feet one evenin...
The Roommate
Sharon, a housewife, 50-something, recently divorced, anxious empty-nester, has some trepidation whe...
