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Based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly
accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and first staged
in 1946, The Winslow Boy has been revived many times since. Ronnie
Winslow is expelled from naval college, having been accused of
petty theft. Enraged, his father Arthur engages a lawyer to
challenge the Admiralty to prove the charges in court - but public
opinion is very much against the Winslows, and each member of the
family is suffering... Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy was
first produced (after a brief pre-London tour) at the Lyric
Theatre, London, in May 1946. This edition includes an
authoritative introduction by Dan Rebellato, a biographical sketch
and a chronology.
Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his
powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted
by love - or the lack of it. The play opens with the failed suicide
of Hester Collyer (Peggy Ashcroft in the first production), who has
deserted her husband for the raffish charms of an ex-fighter pilot.
Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea was first performed at the
Duchess Theatre in the West End in March 1952. This edition
includes an authoritative introduction, biographical sketch and
chronology. 'Few dramatists of this century have written with more
understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan' Michael
Billington
A double bill by Terence Rattigan, featuring two plays of striking
contrast that display his astonishing range as a writer. The comic
gem Harlequinade follows a classical theatre company whose
intrigues and dalliances are revealed with increasingly calamitous
consequences in an affectionate celebration of the lunatic art of
putting on a play. A powerfully atmospheric one-woman play, All On
Her Own tells the story of Rosemary who, alone at midnight in
London, has a secret burden to share that is both heartbreaking and
sinister. Harlequinade & All On Her Own was performed as part
of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company's Plays at the Garrick
Season in 2015, starring Zoe Wanamaker and Kenneth Branagh, and
co-directed by Branagh and Rob Ashford. This official tie-in
edition features both plays, plus exclusive additional content
including an introduction to Rattigan's work, interviews with
Kenneth Branagh, Rob Ashford, Zoe Wanamaker and designer
Christopher Oram, and reproductions of Oram's original design
sketches.
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Ross (Paperback)
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Terence Rattigan's epic and probing drama about the man
immortalised as Lawrence of Arabia. Arrogant, flippant, withdrawn
and with a talent for self-concealment, the mysterious Aircraftman
Ross seems an odd recruit for the Royal Air Force. In fact the
truth is even stranger than the man himself. Behind the false name
is an enigma, a man named Lawrence who started as a civilian in the
Map Office in 1914 and went on to mastermind some of the most
audacious military victories in the history of the British Army.
These victories earned him an enduring and romantic nom de guerre:
Lawrence of Arabia. Rattigan's 1960 play reveals the unusual and
deeply conflicted Englishman behind the heroic legend. This
edition, with an Introduction by Dan Rebellato, was published
alongside the revival at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2016,
directed by Adrian Noble and starring Joseph Fiennes as Ross.
Two plays from one of the leading dramatists of the 20th century.
In Who is Sylvia?, Mark is obsessed with a girl called Sylvia, whom
he kissed just once at a garden party when he was 17. He makes a
habit of pursuing physically identical girls for the rest of his
life - despite having a wife and growing son. Terence Rattigan's
play Who is Sylvia? premiered in the West End in 1950, where it ran
for over a year. He seems to be offering a bittersweet portayal of
his father - and maybe of his own frustrated love life. Also
included in this volume is Duologue, a short monologue play for a
female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead
husband. Originally written for television and appearing here for
the first time in print, Duologue was broadcast in 1968 and
subsequently staged in 1976 in a double bill with The Browning
Version.
Ill health is forcing Andrew to retire from teaching. His wife
despises him for his failures and finds consolation with Frank, a
younger teacher. She openly taunts Andrew while Frank watches with
disgust and shame. The wife knows she has lost Frank - but even
more bitter is the realization he's now Andrew's best friend.
A masterpiece of light comedy from Terence Rattigan, about a group
of bright young things attempting to learn French on the Riviera
amid myriad distractions. French Without Tears is the play that
first made Rattigan's name, and ran for over a thousand
performances in the 1930s. This edition includes an authoritative
introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.
Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who
snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career
and his marriage. Twice filmed (with Michael Redgrave and Albert
Finney) and frequently revived. Andrew Crocker-Harris' wife Millie
has become embittered and fatigued by her husband's lack of passion
and ambition. On the verge of retirement, and divorce, Andrew is
forced to come to terms with the platitude his life has become.
Then John Taplow, a previously unnoticed pupil, gives Andrew an
unexpected parting gift: a second-hand copy of Robert Browning's
translation of Agamemnon - a gift which offers not only a
opportunity for redemption, but the chance to gain back some
dignity. The Browning Version was premiered at the Phoenix Theatre,
London, in September 1948. This volume also contains Harlequinade,
a farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The
Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill.
'Few dramatists of this century have written with more
understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan' Michael
Billington This edition includes an authoritative introduction and
biographical sketch by Rattigan scholar Dan Rebellato, along with a
chronology of his plays.
Love in Idleness is the third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial
trilogy of war plays (after Flare Path and While the Sun Shines).
It is published here alongside an earlier version of the play, Less
Than Kind, which was never staged during Rattigan's lifetime.
Michael, eighteen, returns to wartime London from schooling in
Canada, brimming with youthful left-wing convictions. Reunited with
his mother, he is alarmed as he begins to realise that she is the
mistress of a leading member of the war cabinet. Sparks fly between
the idealistic younger man and the pragmatic politician, while the
mother is torn between them... Love in Idleness was first staged at
the Lyric Theatre, London, in December 1944, in a version rewritten
by Rattigan at the request of the production's stars, Alfred Lunt
and Lynn Fontanne. The earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind,
was never staged and remained unpublished until 2011, the centenary
of Rattigan's birth. That version was premiered at Jermyn Street
Theatre, London, in January 2011. This volume presents both plays
in full so that readers may judge for themselves which is the
better. This edition includes an authoritative introduction by Dan
Rebellato, a biographical sketch and chronology.
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First Episode (Paperback)
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Terence Rattigan's first play, published for the first time in this
edition to mark the centenary of his birth. Written with his fellow
student, Philip Heimann, while they were both at Oxford, First
Episode shows an infatuated undergraduate, Tony, falling for
Margot, an actress ten years his senior. And vice versa. Completing
a triangle of rival affections is Tony's best friend, David.
Originally staged at a small experimental theatre in Kew in 1933,
First Episode transferred to the West End and then to New York.
Rattigan was twenty-two years old. Though not revived since then,
it is a candidate - with its cast of eight - for rediscovery, much
as was the now-feted After the Dance. This edition in the Nick Hern
Books Rattigan Collection includes an authoritative introduction by
Rattigan scholar Dan Rebellato.
Based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury, who, in 1935, went on
trial with her eighteen-year-old lover for the murder of her
husband. In the play, Terence Rattigan pits Alma against a
formidable lady juror, whose own life offers a plangent
counterpoint to the central tale of love, betrayal, guilt and
obsession. Published in this edition alongside a major revival of
the play at The Old Vic, London, Cause Celebre was Rattigan's last
play and was still running in the West End at the time of his death
in 1977. It comes, like the other volumes in NHB's uniform edition
of Rattigan's plays, with an authoritative introduction by Rattigan
scholar Dan Rebellato. 'Few dramatists of this century have written
with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan' -
Michael Billington
A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on
Terence Rattigan's own experiences as a tail gunner in the Second
World War. 1942. The Falcon Hotel, on the Lincolnshire coast. RAF
bomber pilot Teddy is celebrating a reunion with his actress wife
Patricia. When Peter, Patricia's ex-lover and Hollywood
heart-throb, arrives and an urgent bombing mission over Germany is
ordered, Patricia finds herself at the centre of an emotional
conflict as unpredictable as the war in the skies. Terence
Rattigan's play Flare Path was first produced at the Apollo
Theatre, London, in August 1942. It was revived as part of the
Rattigan Centenary celebrations at the Theatre Royal Haymarket,
London, in March 2011. This edition contains an authoritative
introduction by Rattigan scholar Dan Rebellato.
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.
Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in
Bournemouth. In the first of the plays, Table by the Window, a
lonely divorcee tracks down her former husband in order to resume a
kind of half-life with him. In the other, Table Number Seven, a
repressed young spinster offers brave moral support to a fake major
accused of importuning women in a local cinema. Terence Rattigan's
play Separate Tables was first produced at the St. James's Theatre,
London, in September 1954. In an alternative version, only recently
discovered among Rattigan's papers, the major's offence was
revealed to be homosexual; these 'alternative' scenes are published
here for the first time. This edition, edited and introduced by Dan
Rebellato, includes a biographical sketch and chronology. 'Few
dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of
the human heart than Terence Rattigan' Michael Billington
Mr. Rattigan has given a mild wartime slant to his play. One the
eve of his marriage, the young and wealthy Earl of Harpenden puts
up an American Lieutenant for the night; and in the morning dates
him up with a former girl friend. The American mistakes the earl's
finance for the girl friend, and the two of them fall in love with
each other before he discovers his mistake. What with a French
officer also in the race, the girl friend very much in evidence,
and the fiancee's father, a deadbeat duke, adding to the
complications, an evening of hilarious fun is the result.2 women, 5
men
The Sleeping Prince: An Occasional Fairy Tale is a 1953 play by
Terence Rattigan, conceived to coincide with the coronation of
Elizabeth II in the same year. Set in London in 1911, it tells the
story of Mary Morgan, a young actress, who meets and ultimately
captivates Prince Charles of Carpathia, considered to be inspired
by Carol II of Romania.5 women, 7 men
One of two Shakespearean ham actors touring the provinces has a
dubious and shady past.
"Feelings can't sometimes be helped, but the expression of them
can." Inspired by La Dame aux Camelias, and set amidst the
glamorous and exotic society of the 1950s French Riviera, Variation
on a Theme revolves around the tempestuous love affair between
Rose, a beautiful and worldly socialite, and Ron, a young ballet
dancer with a keen eye for social advancement. In an emotionally
charged story of desire and disillusionment, Rose is persuaded by
Ron's choreographer and mentor, Sam, to sacrifice her personal
happiness for the sake of her young lover's success and career. But
as Rose's health deteriorates, and Ron is faced with the loveless
reality of their separation, they finally face up to their need to
be needed. A forgotten classic by "one of the supreme dramatists of
the 20th century" (Michael Billington, Guardian), Terence
Rattigan's Variation on a Theme was presented by HPZ Productions in
association with Neil McPherson at the Finborough Theatre in
February 2014. The production, its first in more than fifty years,
starred twice Olivier Award nominated Rachael Stirling. The play's
original 1958 premiere was directed by John Gielgud and starred
Margaret Leighton and Jeremy Brett.
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A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
Charles Dickens, Terence Rattigan, John Gielgud; Edited by Adam Spreadbury-Maher
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One of the darkest and most romantic of Dickens' novels, A Tale of
Two Cities was adapted for the stage by the dream team of Terence
Rattigan and John Gielgud in 1935, but a planned West End
production was never staged. It finally received its professional
world premiere at the King's Head Theatre in September 2013. In a
time when governments all over the world are facing down political
unrest and fierce protests, this revolutionary story has never been
more relevant. The adaptation, edited by King's Head artistic
director Adam Spreadbury-Maher, marries three of the finest artists
in their own fields that England has ever known: Dickens the master
story-teller, Rattigan the great playwright and Gielgud the
mercurial actor. Gielgud intended to play both Sydney Carton and a
number of other roles, and this adaptation reflects that ambition
by having thirty characters played by just eight actors.
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Terence Rattigan
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This biographical portrait of T. E. Lawrence (a.k.a. Lawrence of
Arabia) begins in 1922, when Lawrence was hiding under an assumed
name as "Aircraftman Ross" in the Royal Air Force, and is being
disciplined by his Flight Lieutenant for alleged misconduct. When
Lawrence's identity is compromised, his dreams take him back to the
various figures in his life, as the play flashes back to the famed
Arab Revolts, beginning during World War I, in mid-1916.21 men
Drama / Characters: 5 male, 3 femaleScenery: Interior Hester
Collyer's husband is a rich, talented lawyer; her lover, Freddie,
is neither Hester's moral nor intellectual equal, but Hester loves
him with an intensity that few, and especially not Freddie, are
capable of matching. They are death to each other. Hester is driven
to attempt suicide. Between the devil and the deep blue sea the
latter looks very attractive. She is saved by Miller, a disbarred
doctor, and through him learns how to transcend both hope and
despair.
Gregor Antonescu, a tycoon of Hungarian origin, arrives at the
Greenwich Village apartment of his illegitimate son, Basil, for a
business meeting to discuss a highly-profitable merger. After
achieving apparent success, he finds everything collapsing around
him and learns from Basil that a warrant is out for his arrest.
Basil offers help, but Gregor acquires a conscience for the first
time in his life and determines his own way out. A revival of this
tense, psychological drama was seen to critical acclaim at the
Duchess Theatre, London, in 2005, starring David Suchet as Gregor
Antonescu.
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