REVIEWS
Man and Boy - Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre
Browning Version - Chichester Festival Theatre
"You leave the theatre in no doubt that you have watched a great production of a play of extraordinary depth, compassion and psychological perception."
Five stars, The Daily Telegraph
"a perfectly paced and powerful rendering of this remarkable play"
Four stars, The Times
"beautifully melancholic"
Four stars, The Guardian
"sympathetic gem of a small play"
Daily Mail
Cause Célèbre; Rocket to the Moon – review
The Guardian
Thea Sharrock – who kick-started the Terence Rattigan revival last year with her fine production of After the Dance at the National – once again shows what a complicated and provocative mixture of flavours the author of Separate Tables brought to the ...
Cause Célèbre, Old Vic, London Rocket to the Moon, NT Lyttelton, London One-on ...
The Independent
Cause Célèbre sees the Old Vic adding to the centenary surge of Terence Rattigan revivals. And his final play – written in the Seventies but set in 1935 – is based on the real-life case of Alma Rattenbury. She gained notoriety, at the age of 39, ...
Is this the new Judi Dench?
Telegraph.co.uk
By Jenny McCartney 7:00AM BST 03 Apr 2011 When Anne-Marie Duff first saunters on stage in silk pyjamas in the triumphant revival of Terence Rattigan's Cause Célèbre at the Old Vic, she seems encased in gleaming, brittle gaiety. ...
"Terence Rattigan, Forgotten Centenarian."
Wall Street Journal
Cause Célèbre
The Times - 5 stars
"crowning masterpiece of the Rattigan centenary."
Daily Telegraph - 4 stars
"Thea Sharrock's loving and beautifully acted revival it mixes anguish, suspense, humour and compassion to often electrifying effect.." Web
The Guardian - 4 stars
"A real-life class act, seething with passion and repression" Web
Daily Express - 4 stars
Daily Mail - 3 stars
The Stage
"Thea Sharrock's superb, suggestive production gives the play - part courtroom drama, part thriller - a punchy dynamism that keeps its different worlds fluidly in play." Web
Flare Path...there are no week links here- each opf the cast fills out their archetypal characters superbly well- * * * * * John Nathan
Flare Path is the term for the lights that guide planes on take off, and that is illustrated in a large video display above the stage enhanced by vivid lighting and sound as the bombers take off. There is a hazard, however, in that the enemy also uses the flare path to shoot down the planes as they take off. It's a clever metaphor for the story in the play, and Nunn and his players make the most of it.
Reuters
Sienna Miller and James Purefoy are profoundly moving and wonderfully funny in Terence Rattigan's wartime drama. Rating: * * * * The Telegraph
Flare Path marks the first major production in the West End to celebrate the Rattigan centenary and in terms of casting and direction, could be extremely hard to top. The Stage
Flare Path - Trevor Nun's magnificent revival of Terence Rattigan's 1942 play is an ensemble achievement.
Michael Billington - The Guardian
After the Dance, the awards: Terence Rattigan play wins four Oliviers. The Guardian
BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends (James Purefoy) - 05 March Web
BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour (Sienna Miller) - 08 March Web
This Morning (James Purefoy) - 08 March Web
BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (Trevor Nunn) - 09 March Web
'The revival of Terence Rattigan; the great dramatist of moral life' London Evening Standard
Profile: Terence Rattigan officiallondontheatre.co.uk
Flare Path - Bomber romance is right on target As his plane came crashing down, the one thing Terence Rattigan saved was his script.
Daily Telegraph
Mail Online • Why Tom's taking the next few months at the gallop More...
Why Rattigan is all the rage again. Daily Express
In from the cold - Philip Ziegler - The Spectator
When shocks wear thin • Daily Telegraph
The celebrations of the Terence Rattigan centenary won't throw up anything more enjoyably peculiar and intriguing than this novelty with which they now kick off. The Independent
This wartime Rattigan will go down a bomb - Daily Mail
Less Than Kind - TimeOut • Daily Mail
Less Than Kind, Jermyn Street Theatre - Alexandra Coghlan - theartsdesk
Less Than Kind at Jermyn Street Theatre, SW1 - Echoes of Hamlet - Terence Rattigan's centenary year opens with a 1944 setting that feels highly topical - Libby Purves **** The Times
Rattigan reassessed - BBC interview
The BBC's arts correspondent Rebecca Jones has been finding out if Rattigan is now back for good. BBC Interview
Witty and touching take on Less Than Kind **** Fiona Mountford London Evening Standard Until Feb 12. Information: 020 7287 2875. jermynstreettheatre.co.uk
Sienna Miller's Flare Opens Nunn's Haymarket Season WhatsOnStage • Daily Mail
Terence Rattigan - My part in his downfall - article in The Times Extract 1 • Extract 2
The Best Theatre for 2011 - The Guardian
The fall and rise of Terence Tattigan - Daily Telegraph
Campaign to honour Sir Terence Rattigan - West End Extra
Brits at Their Best - Web
The Terence Rattigan Theatre - The Stage
Campaign to name a West End theatre - Terence Rattigan - Daily Mail
Maxine Peake - West Yorkshire Playhouse
Terence Rattigan Centenary Kicks Off With Less Than Kind - Playbill
Less Than Kind - Jermyn Street Theatre - WhatsOnStage
Centenary Year highlighted in Winter Hot List 2011 in The Observer - The Observer
"In 2011 we should get a more rounded picture of Rattigan." Michael Billington
g2 - The Guardian
The fall and rise of Terence Rattigan Dominic Cavendish. Daily TelegraphGraham Jones - Web
Celebrity Sentry (Rachel Weisz 'The Deep Blue Sea') - Web
