TERENCE RATTIGAN (1911 - 1977)
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Terence Rattigan
Adventure Story |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1949 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1950 | ||
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After Lydia |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1973 | ||
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After The Dance |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1939 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1939 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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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. | ||||
All on Her Own |
| 1st Produced: | Kingston on Thames, Surrey | 1974 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in The Best Short Plays 1970, ed Stanley Richards, Chilton, Pennsylvania | 1973 | ||
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Notes: televised 1968; as Duologue, produced 1976 | ||||
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Before Dawn (In Praise Of Love II) |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1973 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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Bequest To The Nation, A |
| 1st Produced: | Haymarket, London | 1970 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1970 | ||
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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 | ||||
Browning Version, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1948 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1949 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: Playbill: The Browning Version and Harlequinade | ||||
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Cause Celebre |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1977 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: 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 | ||||
Deep Blue Sea, The |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1952 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1952 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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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. | ||||
First Episode |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1933 | ||
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Notes: with Philip Heiman | ||||
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Flare Path |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1942 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1942 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 |
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Follow My Leader |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1940 | ||
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Notes: with Anthony Maurice | ||||
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Frencb Witbout Tears |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1936 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1937 | ||
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Notes: music by Robert Stolz, lyrics by Paul Dehn, as Joie de Vivre (produced London 1960) | ||||
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Grey Farm |
| 1st Produced: | NY | 1940 | ||
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Notes: with Hector Bolitho | ||||
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Harlequinade |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1948 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1949 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Playbill: The Browning Version and Harlequinade | ||||
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In Praise Of Love |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1973 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: wife conceals incurable disease from husband who, in reality knows but does not think his wife does | ||||
Love In Idleness. A Comedy in Three Acts. (French's Acting Edition No. 435). Frontispiece. SF. 1948 |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1944 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1945 | ||
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| Genre: | 3 act | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: as O Mistress Mine (produced NY 1946) | ||||
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Man And Boy |
| 1st Produced: | Brighton | 1963 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1963 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: tense drama of the business world in which dealer acquires conscience for the first time in his life | ||||
Ross: A Dramatic Portrait |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1960 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1960 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 22 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
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Synopsis: Lawrence of Arabia as Aircraftsman Ross seeking anonymity, recalls his past during a night of fever | ||||
Separate Tables |
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1954 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1955 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 8 |
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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 | ||||
Sleeping Prince, The |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1953 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1954 | ||
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| Genre: | Occasional Fairy Tale | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: Period 1911, Regent responds to Mary's naïve philosophy that everything can be solved by adding more love to life | ||||
Variations On A Theme |
| 1st Produced: | Manchester | 1958 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1958 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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While The Sun Shines. A Comedy in Three Acts. SF. N.Y. 1945 |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1943 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1945 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy in Three Acts | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Who Is Sylvia? |
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge | 1950 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1951 | ||
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Winslow Boy, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1946 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1946 | ||
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| Genre: | 2 Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: 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. | ||||