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  • Ragamuffin
    Ragamuffin is a man on trial. In the 'Supreme Court of Afrikan Justice' he has been indicted for his role in criminalizing the black...
  • Raising Fires
  • random
    An ordinary family starts an ordinary day, until their young son is killed in a random shooting outside his school.
  • Re: Exhibit
    About an actor auditoning for a role in Brett Bailey's "Exhibit B" which was cancelled following accusations of racism
  • Ready or Not
  • Reap What You Sow
    A 20 minute reading based on Yoruba myths and characters inspired by the play The Brothers Size by Tarrell Alvin McCraney.
  • Red Helicopter, The
    It is 2072, the UK is in turmoil after an apocalyptic event and a group of young people are camped out on the thrid floor of an office...
  • Redemption Song
    Redemption Song is a blend of melodrama and ritual. A poet, Legion Bramble, returns to his island homeland during the Mummers' Festival...
  • Refugee Boy
    Alem and his father are in a B&B in Datchet. Alem has lived in Ethiopia and Eritrea but this is his best holiday ever. But in the morning...
  • Rejoicing at her Wonderous Vulva the Young Woman Applauded Herself
    Exploration of female sexuality.
  • Remembrance
    Remembrance is the story of an eloquent retired teacher who cannot reconcile his anachronistic love of British culture with the evolution...
  • Reservoir of Dreams
  • Resistance
    Resistance explores the evolution of Jacques Lusseyran as the blind teenage hero of the French Resistance. Resistance uses physical...
  • Resurrections in the Season of the Longest Drought
    Resurrections set in Nigeria is a subversive and satirical drama that takes us into a world where shady drug dealers and corrupt lawyers...
  • Return To My Native land
  • Revo
  • Rhapsody 'n Black 'n White
  • Rhymes Reasons and Bomb Ass Beatz
    This darkly comic play covers three years in the interconnected lives of 10 Britons and Americans, from drag queens to rappers, drug...
  • Ritual
    The play takes on the form of ritual by intersecting text with music and dance. The main character, Barzey, is approaching 40, and as a...
  • Ritual By Water
  • Rivers Run Deep
  • Road, The
  • Rock a Bye Camden
  • Rock in Water, A
    A Rock in Water was commissioned by the Royal Court Young People's Theatre, to examine the life and work of Trinidadian journalist and...
  • Rocket Man
    A man tries to chat up a girl but finds his British reserve gets in the way.
  • Romance and Treason
  • Rose's Story
  • Rough Crossings
    As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British naval officer embark on an epic journey in...
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  • Rum an' Coca Cola
  • Running Dream
    Running Dream tells the story of three generations of West Indian women with warmth and humour.
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