Terence Rattigan

Terence Rattigan's 1948 script falls into the tradition of the British well-made play, a category that spreads over theater history as a combined craft and art that happily satisfies American tastes by virtue of its emotional cohesion and...

In this article: Mark Teschner, General Hospital, and New York City

...but I can t help feeling the production would have benefited from deeper psychological colouring. If the Rose Theatre can bring Rattigan s theatrical old warhorse The Winslow Boy into galloping life, as it did earlier this year,...

In this article: Alan Ayckbourn, Peter Hall, and Finty Williams

It was last updated at 21.30 BST on Wednesday 30 September 2009. The Royal Ballet has a Cuban revolution, the Peter Hall Company revives Rattigan in Bath and Mark Rylance pitches up at the Royal Court Hydrocracker's promenade performance...

In this article: Mark Rylance, Simon McBurney, Complicite, Endgame, Harry Potter, Fiona Shaw, and Cuban Revolution

...repressed tenderness of Millson's Hudetz is unnervingly combined with a lethal iciness. In Separate Tables, originally penned by Terence Rattigan in 1954, a superficially genteel Bournemouth guesthouse turns into a kangaroo court. In Philip...

In this article: Ben Hur, Iain Glen, Stewart Copeland, Charlton Heston, and Judgment Day

guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 September 2009 21.35 BST Rattigan is suddenly all the rage, although, of course, in Chichester the theatrical patron saint of repressed feeling, wells of loneliness, situational chat and unspoken desire has never...

In this article: Separate Tables and Iain Glen

...A five-star evening at a less than grand hotel Last updated at 9:56 AM on 18th September 2009 Among its numerous virtues, Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables is a play in praise of hoteliers. The warmest character is Miss Cooper,...

In this article: Separate Tables, Gina McKee, Iain Glen, Windsor soup, and Stoicism

...especially since Chichester is presenting the play in a version never performed in Rattigan's lifetime. Because of theatre censorship, and Rattigan's own fear of exposing his own homosexuality, it originally concerned a bogus major...

In this article: Separate Tables, The Deep Blue Sea, Lynda Bellingham, and John Gielgud

...in Melbourne and the McCallum partnership made its Australian debut with Alan Melville's comedy Simon and Laura and yet another Terence Rattigan play, The Deep Blue Sea. In Simon and Laura they played a pair of married television...

In this article: John McCallum, Melbourne, Australia, Michael Powell, The Loves of Joanna Godden, The Deep Blue Sea, England, and Sydney

...seven London Evening Standard awards. He was made a CBE in 1987 and in 1997 he became the first playwright to be knighted since Terence Rattigan. This latest production of Absurd Person Singular was first staged in the West End in 2008 where...

In this article: Absurd Person Singular, New Theatre, Alan Ayckbourn, Cardiff, The Norman Conquests, Stephen Beckett, London Evening Standard, A Chorus of Disapproval, and Bedroom Farce

...viewer. At their best, however, they provide a fugue in disappointment and rue. First up is a double bill of one-act plays by Chekhov and Rattigan. Swansong feels like a titbit the former knocked off in time for breakfast. Peter Bowles is...

In this article: Theatre Royal, Goat, Catatonia, and Michael Gambon