The Terence Rattigan Celebrations begin...

Thea Sharrock directs Cause Célèbre at
The Old Vic

 

Terence Rattigan’s final play Cause Célèbre will be staged at The Old Vic in March 2011, celebrating the centenary of his birth. Directed by Thea Sharrock, Cause Célèbre is based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury who went on trial with her 18-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. Condemned by the public more for her seduction of a young boy than for any involvement she may have had in her husband’s death, Alma’s fate is left in the hands of the socially and sexually repressed jury forewoman, Edith. • The Old Vic • Evening Standard

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After The Dance

Playing at the Lyttleton Theatre on the South Bank.

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch as David Scott-Fower, Adrian Scarborough as John Reid and John Heffernan as Peter and Nancy Carroll as Jean. Thea Sharrock directs, with designs by Hildegard Bechtler, lighting by Mark Henderson and sound by Ian Dickinson. Lyttelton Theatre at The National Theatre in London until August 11.

Wonderful gallery of photographs of After The Dance by Geraint Lewis View

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A Terence Rattigan Festival at Chichester Festival Theatre

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Terence Davies to return with
Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's
The Deep Blue Sea

Terence Davies is working on an adaptation of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play "The Deep Blue Sea." The drama, a classic of post-war British theatre, follows Hester Collyer, the wife of a High Court Judge,caught in a self-destructive affair with an R.A.F. pilot. The project was filmed before in 1955, starring Vivien Leigh in the central role to mixed results, but it seems perfectly suited for Davies' sensibility. The Playlist • Terence Davies

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BFI Film and Television Retrospective

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BBC Radio 3 and 4

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British Library Exhibition

Exhibition featuring rare items from the Rattigan Archive. More details soon.

The British Library

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quartet Books

Terence Rattigan - The Man and His Work

£22.50 • 978 -0- 7043 -7197- 2 • BP 556PP

Revised to celebrate the centenary of Rattigan’s birth.

Rattigan wrote some of the most memorable and important plays of the twentieth century, including The Winslow Boy, French without Tears and The Browning Version.

 Fascinating account of theatre life during the 1940s featuring tales of John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Vivien Leigh, and Laurence Olivier.

www.quartetbooks.co.uk

 

Nick Hern Books

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