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The Quest of Queen Thomas
The Quest of Queen Thomas is a one-act play that follows Thomas, a 10-year-old child identifying as...
Quiche Isn't Sexy
Jay, a burger addict, joins Meat Eaters Anonymous where he meets and falls for Jackie, a recovering...
Radio Golf
The tenth and final play in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, Radio Golf follows a black man named...
Raisin
“Raisin” takes place in 1950s Southside Chicago and revolves around a working class black family asp...
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...
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