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  • General Rattigan summoned reinforcements to help resist the attack.
  • But this is a play about class as well as sex: I had forgotten how subtly Rattigan suggests the opposing counsels inhabit the same masonic clubman's world while the accused, however innocent of the charge, is branded a corrupter of youth and a vulgar sensualist. Review | Old Vic | Cause Célèbre | Michael Billington
  • Rattigan modeled Gregor after the Swedish matchstick monopolist Ivar Kreuger, an early pioneer of complex financial schemes both legitimate and otherwise. A Drama of Vice and Men
  • Suchet leads an all-star cast in a revival of Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy.
  • Rattigan's great professional regret was the failure of his 1949 play based on Alexander the Great, Adventure Story.
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  • As with No 11 buses, so with this early 1939 play by Terence Rattigan: you wait ages for a revival and then two come along at once.
  • Having starting out by attacking the razzle-dazzle party-givers, Rattigan ends up by understanding that the real tragedy of characters such as David and Joan is their emotional inarticulacy.
  • The play, written by Rattigan in 1963, takes place on an autumn evening in 1934 as Gregor Antonescu ( Frank Langella ), a finagler on the brink of economic collapse and arrest, visits the Greenwich Village apartment of his son, Basil (Adam Driver), for one last-ditch, furtive business meeting to save his own hide. A Drama of Vice and Men
  • General Rattigan summoned reinforcements to help resist the attack.
  • But the centenary revivals have forced us to recognise the real truth about Rattigan: that behind the quietly oblique dialogue lies a profound understanding of the human heart and an awareness of the illogicality of love. In praise of … Terence Rattigan | Editorial
  • Rattigan reinforces the point by contrasting Alma's brash, self-confident lover, George, with Edith's sexually diffident son who is the same age but driven to seek worldly experience with a prostitute. Review | Old Vic | Cause Célèbre | Michael Billington
  • South Downs was commissioned by the Terence Rattigan Trust to serve as a curtain-raiser to a new production of The Browning Version marking the centenary of the playwright's birth. David Hare: 'It's absurd, but I feel insecure'
  • With some of the more famous plays snaffled by other theatres in Rattigan's centenary year, here Northampton's Royal & Derngate offers In Praise Of Love, a later Rattigan play, written in 1973, and set against the backdrop of the 1970s' changing political landscape. This week's new theatre
  • But the structure is characteristically tight and Rattigan captures particularly well the hothouse insularity of the Mayfair set who regard Manchester as a foreign city on which the sun never rises.
  • General Rattigan summoned reinforcements to help resist the attack.
  • Wyatt said he pulled the laces out of two pairs of shoes and he and Rattigan both tied her up.

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