TERENCE RATTIGAN   (1911 - 1977)


Terence Rattigan
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Plays by Terence Rattigan

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