Terence Rattigan on film...

 

 

 

The Deep Blue Sea

In post - production . . .

Rachel Weisz, Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston will explore aspects of love in Terence Davies's new screen version of this Terence Rattigan classic. Simon Russell Beale plays, Weiz's estranged husband William Collyer, a high court judge, and Tom Hiddlestone her lover Freddie Page, a former RAF World War II fighter pilot.

"It’s about Hester, a woman who, to put it bluntly, had never experienced good sex until she met Freddie."

The project is being supported by Film 4 and the UK Film Council. More...
Mail Online • Why Tom's taking the next few months at the gallop More...
The Playlist • Terence Davies • Hollywood Reporter • IMDB

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Terence Rattigan on radio...

BBC Radio 3 and 4

BBC announces star-filled Terence Rattigan season

Rory Kinnear, Ruth Wilson and Rupert Penry-Jones are to appear in a special BBC Radio season celebrating the centenary of Terence Rattigan's birth, which will also include a broadcast version of the Old Vic's Cause Celebre starring Anne-Marie Duff.

The centenary will be marked across BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 in June, and will feature new productions of The Browning Version, Flare Path and In Praise of Love, as well as the radio transfer of Cause Celebre.

A Radio 4 Front Row special programme about Rattigan will be broadcast on Monday 30 May (bank holiday) at 7.15pm.

The season starts on June 5 with Flare Path on Radio 3, starring Kinnear, Wilson and Penry-Jones. It will go out in the Drama on 3 slot at 8pm and is being produced by Catherine Bailey. Jeremy Herrin will direct.

Terence Rattigan Interviews on Radio 4 - 6th June pm

This will be followed by Radio 4's The Browning Version, broadcast on June 11 at 2.30pm. It will star Michael York, Joanne Whalley, Ioan Gruffudd and Ian Ogilvy. It is being produced by independent company Jarvis and Ayres, and directed by Martin Jarvis. The broadcast will be followed with The Rattigan Version, in which Jarvis reveals some behind the scenes background to the play.

Jarvis will also appear in Radio 4's production of In Praise of Love, which will be airedon Radio 4 on June 18. PierProductions is making this drama, which will also feature Sarah Badel and Kerry Shale.

Cause Celebre completes the season on June 25. The stage version is being adapted for radio and brought to the BBC by Sparklab. It is produced by Polly Thomas and Melanie Harris.
The cast has not yet been confirmed, but it is expected that the radio production - being recorded in a studio - will feature all the actors from the current Old Vic staging.

Rattigan by Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch is to explore the work of Terence Rattigan in a BBC documentary to mark the 100th anniversary of the playwright's birth.

Benedict Cumberbatch will present a documentary for BBC4 exploring the work of Terence Rattigan

Rattigan by Benedict Cumberbatch will be broadcast on BBC4 and will see the actor draw on his own experiences of performing the playwright's works to argue that "Rattigan's plays remain some of the most brilliantly written, emotionally powerful social satires of the 20th century".

The Browning Version

Star cast in Terence Rattigan's 'The Browning Version' - BBC Radio 4.
MICHAEL YORK, JOANNE WHALLEY, IOAN GRUFFUDD, IAN OGILVY


A Radio 4 production as The Saturday Play on June 4th.

Award-winning Martin Jarvis directs an all-star cast, led by Michael York (Cabaret, Three Musketeers, Murder on the Orient Express) as the ailing schoolmaster Crocker-Harris; Joanne Whalley (The Borgias, Scarlett, Scandal) plays Millie Crocker-Harris; Ioan Gruffudd (Hornblower, 101 Dalmations, Rise of the Silver Surfer, Wilde) plays Frank Hunter and Ian Ogilvy (The Saint, Measle, Sleuth) is the Headmaster.

Talented Matthew Wolf (Pirates of the Caribbean, Mars Needs Moms) plays the schoolboy Taplow, and Kate Maberly (The Secret Garden, Bonnie and Clyde, Daniel Deronda) is young Mrs Gilbert. Stuart Bunce (Gospel of St John, First Knight, Spartacus) completes this star cast as Peter Gilbert.

The sound design is by Mark Holden.

THE BROWNING VERSION by Terence Rattigan

TAPLOW……………………………...Matthew Wolf
FRANK HUNTER…………………….Ioan Gruffudd
MILLIE CROCKER-HARRIS……….. Joanne Whalley
ANDREW CROCKER-HARRIS……...Michael York
THE HEADMASTER………………….Ian Ogilvy
PETER GILBERT……………………...Stuart Bunce
MRS GILBERT………………………...Kate Maberly

Director: Martin Jarvis
Sound design: Mark Holden
Produced by Rosalind Ayres
A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4

 

 

 

Terence Rattigan on display...

A special display of items from the Terence Rattigan archive can be seen at the British Library from April – June 2011, including original manuscript drafts of his most famous works, alongside photos, letters, and other theatrical ephemera.
www.bl.uk
Press contact:  Julie Yau julie.yau@bl.uk  020 7412 7237

Terence Rattigan: highlights of the British Library exhibition
Telegraph.co.uk
Letter from Terence Rattigan to Robin Midgley, director of the stage play Cause Célèbre; April 1977 The stage version of Cause Célèbre encountered any number of difficulties. Rattigan was commissioned to rewrite the radio script for the stage in time ...

Lost letters bought for £22 reveal Terence Rattigan's professionalism
The Guardian
The British Library has acquired four unpublished letters written by Sir Terence Rattigan towards the end of his life, when, despite the extreme pain of his terminal illness, he felt driven to finish his last play. ...

The Paley Media Center in New York has CBS and HBO television broadcasts of:

The Winslow Boy with Frederic March, Norah Howard and Denholm Elliott

Separate Tables with Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Claire Bloom and Irene Worth

The Browning Version with John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker and Robert Stephens.

The Browning Version (Radio) with Edna Best, Maurice Evans, Norman Brokenshire and Ron Randall.

Oh Mistress Mine (Radio) with Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Norman Brokenshire and Roger Pryor.

Paley Center Rattigan Collection

Terence Rattigan in print...

 

 

Nick Hern Books

New editions of five of Rattigan’s works, with introductions by Dan Rebellato, will be published by Nick Hern Books: 

Cause Célèbre (in March 2011)

All of the following will be published in June 2011
First Episode (Rattigan's first play, published for the first time ever.)
Less Than Kind and Love in Idleness (published in a double volume)
Who is Sylvia?
Duologue

Already in print are:
The Browning Version (with Harlequinade)
The Deep Blue Sea
After the Dance
In Praise of Love
Separate Tables
The Winslow Boy and
French Without Tears

Press contact:  Robin Booth robin@nickhernbooks.demon.co.uk 020 8749 4953

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Samuel French

Acting editions of Rattigan’s plays are published by Samuel French Ltd and available from their bookshop: http://samuelfrench-london.co.uk

Cause Célèbre
The Browning Version
The Deep Blue Sea
Before Dawn
French Without Tears
Flare Path
In Praise of Love
Table No. 2

Press contact: Amanda Smith amanda@samuelfrench-london.co.uk  020 7387 9373

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Quartet

Michael Darlow’s biography, Terence Rattigan, The Man and His Work, is now available in paperback from Quartet Books, revised and updated for the centenary.

Press contact: Amber Sainsbury  amber@quartetbooks.co.uk 020 7636 3992