West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbors in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marr
First performed in 1952, when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea opens with the failed suicide of Hester Collyer (played by Peggy Ashcroft in the first production). She has de
Arrogant and withdrawn, the mysterious Aircraftman Ross seems an odd recruit for the Royal Air Force. In fact, the truth is even stranger than the man himself. Behind the false name is an enigma?a man
The story of an unpopular and unloved classics master at a public school in the 1940s. Deserted by his wife and on the verge of retirement, Crocker-Harris finds a form of redemption in an unexpected p
Terence Rattigan's sparkling comedy about a group of bright young things attempting to learn French on the Riviera amid myriad distractions. This edition was published in 2015 alongside a revival at t
First performed in 1954, when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, Seperate Tables consists of two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel near Bournemouth. In one a lonely divor
