Rattigan: Plays Two (Master Playwrights)

Literature & Fiction

Rattigan, Sir Terence

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Publishing

Drama / Characters: 5 male, 3 female
Scenery: Interior
Hester Collyer's husband is a rich, talented lawyer; her lover, Freddie, is neither Hester's moral nor intellectual equal, but Hester loves him with an intensity that few, and especially not Freddie, are capable of matching. They are death to each other. Hester is driven to attempt suicide. Between the devil and the deep blue sea the latter looks very attractive. She is saved by Miller, a disbarred doctor, and through him learns how to transcend both hope and despair.

Deep Blue Sea

Samuel French Ltd.

Terence Rattigan 
Characters: 15 male, 5 female, 1 boy 
Unit set. 
A woman on trial with her 20 years younger lover for the murder of her husband creates the title drama in this incendiary recreation of the infamous case of Alma Rattenbury and 18 year-old George Percy Stoner. In 1935, when accused of murdering her husband in their Bournemouth home, the headlines created an early tabloid sensation as woman and boy both take the blame, while sexual freedom is cast in sharp relief against the the stifling morality of post-Victorian England. From the celebrated author of Separate Tables and The Browning Version, Cause Celebre will be revived at London's Old Vic in Spring 2011.
 "No one alive writes with such understanding of sexual love or with such profound pity for its victims."-Daily Telegraph, London

Cause Celebre

A BBC Radio 4 Production of Terence Rattigan's famous play about an innocent boy unjustly accused. This gripping BBC radio adaptation from 1981 features a distinguished cast, including Michael Aldridge, Pauline Letts, Sarah Badel, and Michael Maloney. ''It is easy to do justice - very hard to do right.''  When he is accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order, fourteen-year-old Ronnie Winslow is expelled from naval college. But his father believes his claim of innocence and, determined to clear his name, engages the most famous barrister in England to fight his case. It is up to Sir Robert Morton to take on the establishment in order to let right be done. Adapted as a famous British film starring Robert Donat, The Winslow Boy is a moving story about fairness and fighting for a principle.

The Winslow Boy

Blackstone Audiobooks

Originally published: London: Methuen/Nick Hern Books, 1999.

The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan: Volume 1: The Early Plays 1936-1952

Paper Tiger (NJ)

Format Hardcover Subject Drama English Irish Scottish Welsh Publisher Paper Tiger NJ

The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan: Volume Two the Later Plays 1953-1977

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