Terence Rattigan
The Deep Blue SeaThursday, 24 November 2011
The Deep Blue Sea, the latest from justly esteemed British director Terence Davies, shares its name with a Renny Harlin movie about genetically modified sharks (well, give or take a definite article). Both films deal in high anxiety and the looming... Read more... |
The Rattigan Enigma, BBC FourFriday, 29 July 2011
In a recent article, David Hare complained about “a national festival of reaction” in the arts, exemplified by such supposedly Establishment-leaning works as The King’s Speech and Downton Abbey. His real target was Terence Rattigan, currently being... Read more... |
Rattigan's Nijinsky/ The Deep Blue Sea, Chichester Festival TheatreTuesday, 26 July 2011
Terence Rattigan’s art of concealment is what makes The Deep Blue Sea so rich and true an observation of the way people behave. Being deprived of his concealing mask is the crucial idea of the interesting new play partnering it at Chichester to mark... Read more... |
Cause Célèbre, Old VicTuesday, 29 March 2011
Sexual intercourse, according to Larkin, began in 1963. By 1974 it had had a free-thinking, free-loving decade to become comfortable and frankly rather routine. It was the year the Ramones formed, when The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was in cinemas and... Read more... |
Flare Path, Theatre Royal HaymarketMonday, 14 March 2011
Tender, funny and overwhelmingly moving, Trevor Nunn’s revival of this 1942 drama by Terence Rattigan – part of the playwright’s centenary-year celebrations – is a masterly piece of theatre. The big box-office draw may be Sienna Miller, but she’s by... Read more... |
The Deep Blue Sea, West Yorkshire PlayhouseTuesday, 22 February 2011
The clipped Fifties accents raise a smile for the first few minutes, but what’s startling about this new production of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play is how universal, how timeless the story is. Director Sarah Esdaile wisely decides to play things... Read more... |
Less Than Kind, Jermyn Street TheatreSunday, 23 January 2011
“There’s no situation in the world that can’t be passed off with small talk,” claims hostess extraordinaire Olivia Brown in Terence Rattigan’s Less Than Kind. It’s a maxim that could well serve as Rattigan’s theatrical epitaph, the philosophy that... Read more... |
After the Dance, National TheatreWednesday, 09 June 2010
A pall of ennui hangs over the 1930s drawing room of the National’s latest Rattigan revival, as deadly as the boredom its burnt-out party people all dread. The trouble is, I’m not sure to what extent the playwright intended it.To write about the... Read more... |
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