Nick Hern Books, 1995

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (14), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (1)

...Terence Rattigan’s After the Dance – an attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s and 30s – signalled a more serious direction in his writing after the relative frivolity of the hugely successful French...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (21), Female (5), Male (16), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's Cause Célèbre is a drama based on the real-life story of Alma Rattenbury, who in 1935 went on trial with her eighteen-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. Rattigan originally wrote the play for radio, broadcast...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

The Rattigan Collection

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Roles: Total (1), Female (1), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's Duologue is a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband. The play began life as a piece for television entitled All On Her Own, broadcast on BBC2...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (8), Female (2), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan’s professional debut as a playwright, First Episode was co-authored with his fellow undergraduate Philip Heimann whilst they were both studying at the University of Oxford. It was first performed at the Q Theatre, Kew...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's Flare Path, written while he was serving as an air gunner with the RAF during the Second World War, is a story of love and loyalty following a group of RAF airmen and their wives over the course of one day. It was first...

Nick Hern Books, 1995

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (10), Female (3), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...The play that forged Terence Rattigan’s reputation as a playwright, French Without Tears was an enormous – and unexpected – success on its premiere at the Criterion Theatre, London, where it was first performed on 6 November 1936. It ran...

Nick Hern Books, 1994

The Rattigan Collection

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Roles: Total (15), Female (5), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's Harlequinade is a one-act farce about a touring theatre company, first produced in a double-bill with The Browning Version under the joint title Playbill at the Phoenix Theatre, London, on 8 September 1948...

Nick Hern Books, 2001

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love is a play about a husband and wife who, with the best of intentions, deceive each other over the wife's fatal illness. It was based in part on the relationship between Rattigan's friend, the actor Rex...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's Less Than Kind is an early version of a play that, after extensive rewriting, he called Love in Idleness, and which, in its later form, was first produced at the Lyric Theatre, London, on 20 December 1944. Less Than Kind...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (9), Female (6), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's Love in Idleness is the third in an unofficial trilogy of war plays, following Flare Path (1942) and While the Sun Shines (1943). It is a play that explores the conflict between the values of pre-war Britain, and those...

Nick Hern Books, 2016

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (22), Female (0), Male (22), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's play Ross explores the enigmatic life of T.E. Lawrence and his heroic incarnation as 'Lawrence of Arabia'. It was first presented by H.M. Tennent at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, on 12 May 1960. This edition...

Nick Hern Books, 1999

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (22), Female (16), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables comprises two linked one-act plays set in the same small residential hotel on the south coast of England. The play examines social attitudes towards lifestyles and behaviour deemed morally reprehensible...

Nick Hern Books, 1994

The Rattigan Collection

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Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version is a one-act play about an unpopular schoolmaster who, faced with the collapse of his career and marriage, snatches a last shred of dignity when he receives an unexpected gift from a pupil...

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...In Terence Rattigan’s classic drama, an aging schoolmaster at an English secondary school faces the harsh judgments of his students, his fellow teachers, and his vicious and spiteful wife. But can a lone act of kindness from a sympathetic...

Nick Hern Books, 1999

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's play The Deep Blue Sea is a portrait of a woman caught between forbidden love and the fear of loneliness, or the devil and the deep blue sea. It is now considered one of Rattigan's greatest triumphs. The play was first...

Nick Hern Books, 1994

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy is a drama based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order. It was first produced (after a brief pre-London tour) at the Lyric Theatre...

Nick Hern Books, 2011

The Rattigan Collection

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (13), Female (7), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Terence Rattigan's Who is Sylvia? is a drama about a married man who is drawn to women who resemble a childhood sweetheart. One of his lesser-known plays, it also one of his most personal, with its main character apparently inspired...