Terence Rattigan's After the Dance is a brilliant attack on the
hedonistic lifestyle of the 'bright young things' of the 1920s and
30s. David is a high-living, hard-drinking, successful writer
involved with two women: his wife Joan and an earnest-minded
younger woman, Helen. When Joan commits suicide, David considers
following her, but instead returns to a life of parties and
drinking. After the Dance was first produced at the St James's
Theatre, London, in June l939. It signalled a more serious
direction in Rattigan's writing after the relative frivolity of the
hugely successful French Without Tears. It opened to euphoric
reviews, but only a month later the European crisis was darkening
the national mood and audiences began to dwindle. The play was
pulled in August after only sixty performances. This edition
includes an authoritative introduction, biographical sketch and
chronology.
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