Did you ever find the rights to Rope? I looked some time ago and was told by Sam French that the rights were only available in Britain. You'd have to call them over there, i really can't remember if it was Dramatist or Sam French, but at least ya know ya need to be searching overseas. The rights are not available in the U.S. Hope this helps you out.

As I’m sure you have found by now, Rope is not listed in any of the “Big Houses” catalogs. In searching Play Scripts.com http://www.playscripts.com/findaplay/findaplayresults.php3?titleinput=rope&authorinput=&isfilled=1&firstpage=1&x=19&y=10
I have found that French IS listed as its agent. However, it does NOT appear in either the US French catalog, http://www.samuelfrench.com/
Or the French London catalog http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk/ .
There are, however, several theater sites that show that it is being done or has recently been done stateside.
http://www.praxistheatre.org/rope/
http://www.goldfishpublishers.com/Rope_TW.html
http://www.theatermirror.com/tlpcr.htm
http://together.net/~theatre/rope/
Perhaps you could contact one of these groups to find out who they made their arrangements through.

MartyW.