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Sir Terence Rattigan (1911-77) was a British playwright, whose well-structured plays enjoyed enormous success in the years before and after World War II. At one time three of his works were running simultaneously in the West End. Rattigan was knighted in 1971, the first dramatist to be so honoured s
W. While the Sun Shines (play) Who Is Sylvia? (play) The Winslow Boy. Categories: English plays by writer. Works by Terence Rattigan.
Flare Path. Flare Path is a play by Terence Rattigan, written in 1941 and first staged in 1942. [1] Set in a hotel near an RAF Bomber Command airbase during the Second World War, the story involves a love triangle between a pilot, his actress wife and a famous film star. The play is based in part on Rattigan's own wartime experiences, [2] and ...
Nov 18, 2016 · The most remarkable thing about Terence Rattigan as a playwright is not the oft-praised (and oft-lamented) theatrical craft of his plays, nor their huge commercial success, nor even the drama of his reputation’s decline in the wake of the Angry Young Man movement and his subsequent rehabilitation; it is rather that from his first play, French Without Tears, to his last play, Cause Célèbre ...
The Deep Blue Sea is a British stage play by Terence Rattigan from 1952. Rattigan based his story and characters in part on his secret relationship with Kenny Morgan, and the aftermath of the end of their relationship. [1] [2] The play was first performed in London on 6 March 1952, directed by Frith Banbury, and won praise for actress Peggy ...
Cause Célèbre. (play) Cause Célèbre or A Woman of Principle is a 1975 radio play, and the final play by the English author Terence Rattigan. It was inspired by the trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover in 1935 for the murder of her third husband Francis Rattenbury and first broadcast by the BBC on 27 October 1975.
