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TERENCE RATTIGAN (1911 - 1977) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd |
Terence Rattigan was born in London on June 10th 1911. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford. His first success was "French Without Tears" in 1936. He had a string of male lovers - but no one long term and he kept his homosexuality hidden from all but a few close friends. He was diagnosed with leukaemia recovered but then later succumbed to it again. In the 1960s he was out of favour as a playwright and disliked "Swinging Britain" so he went to live in Bermuda. He was knighted in the early 1970s. He died from bone cancer on November 30th 1977
Plays by Terence Rattigan
Adventure Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1949 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1950 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42615 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of Alexander The Great. As Alexander lies dying he wonders where it all went wrong. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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After Lydia | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42625 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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After The Dance | ||
| 1st Produced: | St James Theatre, London | 1939 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1939 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28890 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in the Mayfair flat of a high-living, hard-drinking, successful writer, David, the play turns on his involvement with two women, his wife Joan and an earnest minded younger woman, Helen. Joan commits suicide. David considers following her but instead returns to a life of parties and drinking. A magnificent tragic play by a great modern writer. First staged to enormous acclaim in 1939, just before the outbreak of war, and then neglected until the 1994 BBC TV revival. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXX Issue 12 Page 638 | |||||
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All on Her Own | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kingston on Thames, Surrey | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in The Best Short Plays 1970, ed Stanley Richards, Chilton, Pennsylvania, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42623 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | televised 1968; as Duologue, produced 1976 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Before Dawn (In Praise Of Love II) | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28891 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bequest To The Nation, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Haymarket, London | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28892 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | Fxtras | |||||
Notes: | from the television play Nelson 1966 | |||||
Synopsis: | The bequest was the lovely Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress to Lord Nelson, just before he leaves for Trafalgar | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Browning Version, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1948 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28893 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Playbill: The Browning Version and Harlequinade | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cause Celebre | ||
| 1st Produced: | Her Majesty's Theatre, London | 04 Jul 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1854592071 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28894 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| a trial for murder where the defendants tried to exonerate each other by taking all the blame and the lasting effects on a woman member of the jury | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 07 Page 336 | |||||
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Deep Blue Sea, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brighton Theatre Royal | 04 Feb 1952 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1952 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42617 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | an ex RAF hero is appallingly out of his depth both in civvy street and in his stifling Notting Hill bedsit romance with a judge's wife. | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 52.42 | |||||
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First Episode | ||
| 1st Produced: | Q Theatre, kew, London | 11 Sep 1933 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421639 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42610 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Terence Rattigan with his fellow student, Philip Heimann, while they were both at Oxford | |||||
| First Episode shows an infatuated undergraduate, Tony, falling for Margot, an actress ten years his senior. And vice versa. Completing a triangle of rival affections is Tonys best friend, David. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flare Path | ||
| 1st Produced: | Apollo Theatre, London | 13 Aug 1942 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1942 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421875 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28895 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| It is 1942. At the Falcon Hotel, on the Lincolnshire coast, Teddy a young RAF bomber pilot celebrates a reunion with his actress wife Patricia. They are thrown into upheaval when Peter, Patricias ex lover and Hollywood heartthrob arrives and an urgent bombing mission over Germany is ordered. Who will make the sacrifice during the long night, as Patricia finds herself at the centre of an emotional conflict as unpredictable as the war in the skies. Flare Path is a story of love and loyalty, courage and fear. Based on Rattigans own experiences as a tail gunner in the RAF during the Second World War, he later reworked Flare Path into a screenplay and in 1954 the re-titled The Way to the Stars starring Michael Redgrave was released. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Follow My Leader | ||
| 1st Produced: | Apollo Theatre, London | 1940 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42613 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | with Anthony Maurice | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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French Without Tears | ||
| 1st Produced: | Critereon Theatre, London | 06 Nov 1936 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1937 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0573011443 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42611 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1 boy | |||||
Notes: | music by Robert Stolz, lyrics by Paul Dehn, as Joie de Vivre (produced London 1960) | |||||
Synopsis: | A group of young men have gone to France to improve their French. They are being taught by M Maingot. One by one they fall under the influence of his beautiful daughter Diana. Diana learns that Lord Heybrook is coming to join her father's group and plans to add him to her list of conquests - until it turns out he is a schoolboy | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Grey Farm | ||
| 1st Produced: | NY | 1940 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42614 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | with Hector Bolitho | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harlequinade | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1948 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28896 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Playbill: The Browning Version and Harlequinade | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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High Summer | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Best Short Plays 1973" published by Chilton Books 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0801955891 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135369 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In Praise Of Love | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28897 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | wife conceals incurable disease from husband who, in reality knows but does not think his wife does | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Less Than Kind (early version of Love In Idleness) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 21 Jan 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125319 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The legend behind 'Less Than Kind', Terence Rattigan's 'lost' 1944 play, tells of a left-leaning 'serious comedy' that was rewritten into the frothy, establishmentarian 'Love in Idleness' as a result of pressure from star actors the Lunts. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Love In Idleness | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Theatre, London | 1944 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1945 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42627 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | as O Mistress Mine (produced NY 1946) | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Man And Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1963 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1963 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28898 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | tense drama of the business world in which dealer acquires conscience for the first time in his life | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rattigan's Nijinsky | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chichester: Festival Theatre, Oaklands Park, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 6AP >>> | 19 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1848421677 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131419 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling and extras | |||||
Notes: | by Nicholas Wright, based on the screenplay by Terence Rattigan | |||||
| The extraordinary story of the relationship between the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, drawing on an unproduced screenplay by Terence Rattigan. In a hotel room a once-lauded playwright meets Nijinsky's elderly widow, Romola, to fight over his latest play. Meanwhile, in the same room, Diaghilev and the young Romola fight over the tormented Nijinsky. In 1974, Terence Rattigan wrote a television script for the BBC about the relationship between Diaghilev, the impresario behind the Ballets Russes, and Nijinsky, the most renowned dancer of all time, which Rattigan described as the greatest love story since Romeo and Juliet'. But the playwright withdrew the play and it was never produced. Now in this bold re-imagining of events, Nicholas Wright investigates why. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ross: A Dramatic Portrait | ||
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1960 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1960 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28899 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 22 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Lawrence of Arabia as Aircraftsman Ross seeking anonymity, recalls his past during a night of fever | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Separate Tables | ||
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool Royal court | 23 Aug 1954 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1955 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28900 | |||
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Genre: | 3 scenePlay/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Table By The Window; Table Number Seven | |||||
Synopsis: | two plays set in a shabby genteel hotel on England's South coast, love and scandal | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 54.205; 54.206 | |||||
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Separate Tables (original version) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-185494242 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95551 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In the original version the Major was picking up young men on the promenade - not touching up housewives in the cinema | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sleeping Prince, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manchester Opera House | 28 Sep 1953 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1954 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28901 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Occasional Fairy Tale | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Period 1911, Regent responds to Mary's naive philosophy that everything can be solved by adding more love to life | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 53.300 | |||||
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Variation On A Theme | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manchester Opera House | 31 Mar 1958 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1958 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28902 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | Wearing 58.108 | |||||
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While The Sun Shines | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1943 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1945 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42626 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy in Three Acts Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Earl of Harpenden puts up an American airman Lieutenant Mulvaney. The Earl arranges for the airman to date an ex-girlfriend but he mistakes the Earl's fiancee for the ex and they fall in love. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Who Is Sylvia? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge, Arts | 09 Oct 1950 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1951 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #42616 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act light comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 doubling | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 50.257 | |||||
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Winslow Boy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hippodrome, Bristol | 1945 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1946 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0573014949 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28903 | |||
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Genre: | 2 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| What begins as a small incident ultimately grows into a "cause celebre" nearly shaking the foundations of the government. The incident is simply that of a youngster in an English government school who is expelled for an alleged theft. As a matter of fact, the youngster was en-tirely innocent, but practically all the evidence was against him. The boy's family, Inparticular his father, proceed to contest the decision of the school and chal-lenge its right, as a government-run institution, to damage the reputation of a boy without sufficient legal safeguards. The issue which began as a private matter involves the right of official agencies to impose their authority on the individuals of any democracy and, as the play moves relentlessly forward, we see in effect, citizens of a democracy challenging the forces of bureaucracy, and thus keeping alive the issue of the basic rights of the individual. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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