"Separate Tables (film) Separate Tables is a 1958 American drama film starring Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, and Wendy Hiller, based on two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan that were collectively known by this name. Niven and Hiller won Academy Awards for their performances. The picture was directed by Delbert Mann and adapted for the screen by Rattigan, John Gay and an uncredited John Michael Hayes. Mary Grant and Edith Head designed the film's costumes. The film is set in the Hotel Beauregard. Major David Angus Pollock (David Niven) fails to hide an article about himself in"
"plays are written to be played by the same performers. The secondary characters – permanent residents, the hotel's manager, and members of the staff – appear in both plays. The plays are about people who are driven by loneliness into a state of desperation. After an out-of-town tryout in Manchester, ""Separate Tables"" had its premiere at the St James's Theatre in London on 22 September 1954, with the following cast: The play was directed by Peter Glenville, with sets by Michael Weight. It opened to good reviews; Harold Hobson called the second play in the double-bill, ""one of Rattigan's masterpieces,"
"surreal edge, and an existential despair; one criticdescribed it as being ""like Samuel Beckett, but with better jokes"". A radio adaptation was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 26 December 2015 featuring Paul Merton, Derek Jacobi, Bernard Cribbins and Catherine Tate. The Bedsitting Room (play) The Bedsitting Room is a satirical play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. It began as a one-act play which was first produced on 12 February 1962 at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, England, where it received good local notices. However, it made little impact on London's theatrical scene for over a year, when it"
"She directed a major new production of Rattigan's final and also rarely seen play ""Cause Célèbre"" at The Old Vic in March 2011 as part of The Terence Rattigan Centenary year celebrations. As well as this, Trevor Nunn marked the occasion with a West End revival of ""Flare Path"" at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, between March and June 2011, starring Sienna Miller, James Purefoy and Sheridan Smith. In addition, the BBC presented ""The Rattigan Enigma by Benedict Cumberbatch"", a documentary on Rattigan's life and career presented by actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who, like Rattigan, attended Harrow. A new screen version of"
"Flare Path Flare Path is a play by Terence Rattigan, written in 1941 and first staged in 1942. Set in a hotel near an RAF Bomber Command airbase during the Second World War, the story involves a love triangle between a pilot, his actress wife and a famous film star. The play is based in part on Rattigan's own wartime experiences. At the Falcon Hotel on the Lincolnshire coast, men from a nearby RAF airbase are planning to spend the weekend with their wives. Patricia Graham, an actress from London, has something to tell her husband Teddy, who is a"
"sack, a shocking-pink cocktail dress in pleated chiffon, a casual ensemble of blouse and pedal-pushing slacks, and a two-tiered ball-gown in navy-blue pebble-crèpe – the lean extremities of Margaret Leighton nervously protuded."" Variation on a Theme (play) Variation on a Theme is a 1958 play by the British writer Terence Rattigan. It is a reworking of Alexandre Dumas, fils's nineteenth century novel and subsequent play ""La Dame aux Camélias"". Directed by John Gielgud, the play opened (after a pre-London tour), at the Globe Theatre, London, on 8th May 1958, with the following cast: While not received well by the critics,"
"pauses between the matinee and the evening show of ""Treasure Island"", Milligan began talking to Miles about the idea he and John Antrobus were exploring, of a dramatised post-nuclear world. This became the one-act play ""The Bed-Sitting Room"", which Milligan co-wrote with John Antrobus and which premiered at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury on 12 February 1962. It was adapted to a longer play and staged by Miles at London's Mermaid Theatre, making its debut on 31 January 1963. It was a critical and commercial success and was revived in 1967 with a provincial tour before opening at London's Saville Theatre"
"plays: ""The Pretty Trap"" (1944) for ""The Glass Menagerie"", ""Interior: Panic"" (1946) for ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""Kingdom of Earth"" (1967) for ""The Seven Descents of Myrtle"", ""I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays"" (1973) for ""Vieux Carré"", and ""Some Problems for the Moose Lodge"" (1980) for ""A House Not Meant to Stand"". The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays is a collection of 15 plays, seven of them previously unpublished, by American playwright Tennessee Williams. Published by New Directions in New York City in 2011, Williams' scholar Thomas Keith edited"
"on June 18, 1958. An Anglia television adaptation of the earlier Rattigan screenplay was shown on ITV on August 23, 1987. A chamber opera by the composer Tobin Stokes entitled ""Rattenbury"", and based on the architect's dramatic fall from grace, was performed in concert in Powell River, BC on April 7, 2016 with Richard Margison as Rattenbury and Kathleen Brett as Alma. A fullscale production was performed in Victoria, 2017, home of Rattenburry's parliament buildings. The 2014 Sarah Waters' novel ""The Paying Guests"" was part inspired by the murder. The 2018 novel ""Our Friends In Berlin"" by the author Anthony"
"The Bedsitting Room (play) The Bedsitting Room is a satirical play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. It began as a one-act play which was first produced on 12 February 1962 at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, England, where it received good local notices. However, it made little impact on London's theatrical scene for over a year, when it was adapted to a longer play and Bernard Miles put it on at the Mermaid Theatre, where it was first performed on 31 January 1963 before transferring several weeks later to the Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End. The"
"Jennifer Tarver. The Beckett one-act was paired at both venues with Eugene O'Neill's ""Hughie"" (directed by Robert Falls), also a one-act, and also performed by Dennehy, in the lead role of Erie Smith. The show ran at the Goodman Theatre from 16 January through 28 February 2010. A Broadway run is also planned. In April 2010 Irish actor Michael Gambon continued his relationship with both Beckett and the Gate Theatre when he returned to the Dublin stage as Krapp for a limited run which was followed by a transfer to London's West End. Richard Bremmer took on the eponymous role"
"the seventeen short plays Ravenhill wrote for the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe under the title ""Ravenhill for Breakfast"", retitled as ""Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat"". They express his ambiguous and politically indirect later style. In 2009 Mark Ravenhill presented a staged reading of ""A Life In Three Acts"", transcripts of conversations with Bette Bourne, an actor, drag queen and equal rights activist, at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. The following year, he presented readings of this work at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY and the Soho Theatre in London. Bourne worked with Ravenhill previously on a short play, ""Ripper"", playing Queen Victoria at"
"Henry Kissinger, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Rudolph Nureyev, James Beard,Tennessee Williams, (Staggs, 2005) Jose Ferrer, Rita Hayworth and Aga Khan (Frommer, 2007), The Doors (Densmore, 1990), and George H. W. Bush. Williams worked on his classic play ""Streetcar Named Desire"" while staying at the Pontchartrain Hotel. (Staggs, 2005) The Aschaffenburg family sold the Pontchartrain to a real estate concern in the late 1980's During the 60 years of the Family's ownership and management the Pontchartrain and its Caribbean Room received many honors - top rating in the Guide Julliard de Paris, Harpers & Queens 200 Best Hotels in the World, The"
"own title and ""Intimate Exchanges"" is often treated as eight different plays named after the longest scenes in the play: ""Affairs in a Tent, ""Events on a Hotel Terrace"", ""A Garden Fête"", ""A Pageant"", ""A Cricket Match"", ""A Game of Golf"", ""A One Man Protest"", and ""Love in the Mist"". Each of these scenes opens the second half of the play. The plot of Intimate Exchanges revolves around six major characters and four minor characters, all of whom are played by just two actors. The major characters are: The minor characters, each of which appears only in one or two"
"premiere that the version used then was ""as good a handling of sexual abnormality as English playgoers will tolerate."" Tynan also wrote that both plays are about people who are driven by loneliness into a state of desperation. Among stage revivals of the piece are Peter Hall's production at the Albery, London, in 1993 with Patricia Hodge and Peter Bowles in the principal roles, and one by the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in 2006 using the text of Rattigan's alternative draft, with the Major's lapse as a gay one. The 1958 film, with a few extra parts, was adapted for"
"include ""Enemies"" (Almeida 2006), ""A Prayer for My Daughter"" (Young Vic, 2007). Leading roles at the National Theatre include ""Angels in America"" (1992), ""Rutherford and Son"" (1995), ""Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards"" (1999), ""The Prince's Play"" (2000), ""Sleep With Me"" (2002). His repertory work outside London during the 1980s includes ""Hamlet"" (Royal Exchange),""Pride and Prejudice"" (Leicester Haymarket), ""The Clandestine Marriage"" (Bristol, Old Vic), ""Comedy of Errors"" (York Playhouse), ""Wolf at the Door"", ""Invisible Friends"" (Scarborough, Stephen Joseph Theatre). Other work in London's West End includes the National Theatre production of ""Single Spies"" (Queens Theatre), and ""Me and"
"of the play in 2012 at the National Arts Club in New York City, directed by Keith Merrill. The cast included Tina Benko, John Bolton, Jessica Dickey, Amy Rutberg, Max Gordon Moore and Tug Rice. After the Dance (play) After the Dance is a play by Terence Rattigan which premièred at the St James's Theatre, London, on 21 June 1939. It was not one of Rattigan's more successful plays, closing after only sixty performances, a failure that led to its exclusion from his first volume of ""Collected Plays"". Critics have tended to attribute this relative contemporary failure to the play's"
"in my early twenties, the important link between over-eating and obesity?' The third play ""Metronome"", took its setting, Paris in the 1960s, from Nouvelle Vague cinema. But the style was that of Terence Rattigan, as a sophisticated English couple, in the act of breaking up, visit a music store where the man buys a piano. Much is left unsaid. The woman says, 'If I think about it, my one real regret is that I shall leave here without you and I ever having had what might be termed a 'blazing row'.' The man replies, 'I understand these sort of public"
"and starred Iain Glen (later replaced by Patrick Cremin and Will Houston) and Richard McCabe. His adaptation of Charles Dickens' ""A Tale of Two Cities"" premieres at the Royal & Derngate in Northampton in February 2014. It features original music by Rachel Portman and is directed by James Dacre in his first in-house production since becoming those theatres' artistic director in July 2013. Poulton's adaptations of Hilary Mantel's historical novels ""Wolf Hall"" and ""Bring Up The Bodies"" for the Royal Shakespeare Company premièred at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in January 2014, at the Aldwych Theatre in London in May"
"Jean-Paul Sartre's ""The Respectful Prostitute"", which as a one-act play, was one of two plays presented at Cort Theatre, the other being ""The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden"". The two one-acts previewed at the New Stages Theater in Greenwich Village, prior to opening on March 16 at the Cort and running for 318 performances, closing on December 18, 1948. Marriott's performance would be lauded as ""graceful"". In September 1948, when Rex Ingram was arrested for violating the Mann Act, Marriott replaced him in the lead in ""Charleston 1822"", a drama by Dorothy Heyward which was in previews in New"
"in 1946. In April 1947, Tennessee Williams and agent Audrey Wood met with Irene Selznick at the Fort Sumter Hotel to discuss her producing his newest play A Streetcar Named Desire (just recently renamed from the original title Poker Night). Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr, 2014, p. 127. In 1956, the hotel considered an expansion of 60 to 100 rooms to accommodate the increase in convention business seen in Charleston. In 1973, the hotel, then operated by Sheraton Hotels, was purchased for $850,000 with plans to convert the building into a condominium project with about"
"Bath and Chichester Festival Theatre was directed by Jeremy Herrin, transferring to Trafalgar Studios in 2014. The play won the Society of West End Theatre Awards Play of the Year title for 1982. ""Another Country"" is loosely based on the life of the spy Guy Burgess, renamed ""Guy Bennett"" in the play, and examines the effect his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism has on his life, and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public school he attends. The setting is a 1930s public school where pupils Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd become friends because they are both outsiders. Bennett"
"Trebinshwn, a fine Regency house in Breconshire. When living there he used to walk over the hill behind the house, the Allt, to Llansantffraed church, where the 17th century poet Henry Vaughan is buried, and Vaughan's poetry was a strong influence on him. During the next ten years he concentrated on further translations, including Henrik Ibsen’s ""Peer Gynt"" and Edmond Rostand’s ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" which were produced at the Chichester Festival Theatre. In 1986 he wrote ""One Thing More"", a play about the 7th century Northumbrian monk Cædmon who was suddenly given the gift of composing song; it was first"
"the Ancient Mariner"" and recipient of two Elliot Norton Awards from Boston's theatre critics; ""Tortilla Curtain"" based on the book by T.C. Boyle and recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award and finalist for the Best New Play by San Diego's Theatre Critics' Circle; ""The Forgotten Empress"", about the Mughal Empress Noor Jahan, which has been presented in Los Angeles, Pakistan, San Jose, and Houston; and ""Together Tea"" based on the novel by Marjan Kamali. Other plays include one-person shows of James Joyce’s ""Dubliners"" and ""Finnegans Wake""; ""A Paradise It Seems"", an adaptation of John Cheever’s short stories;"
"2002 at ""Augustine's"". It has since been performed a few more times, notably at Cambridge University in 2003, Highgate in 2004, Guildford (Surrey) in 2007 (where it was voted best event of the year by the students of the University of Surrey), Adelaide Australia 2009, and several more productions have been proposed. The play's two chief influences are Douglas Adams's ""The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy"" and the role play game ""Space 1889"", although another is ""Sir Henry at Rawlinson End"" by Vivian Stanshall. The website (link below) contains reviews, programme notes, and many examples of the play's robust and"
"depiction of the RAF in wartime to be authentic, ""it is unfortunate that he had to pivot the main action of his play about a very uninspired triangle situation – a triangle whose individual angles seem at times very obtuse."" In 2011, Trevor Nunn directed a West End revival of ""Flare Path"" at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket as part of the playwright Terence Rattigan's centenary year celebrations. It marked Nunn's debut as Artistic Director of the theatre. The play opened on 4 March 2011. It recouped after six weeks and was extended an extra week due to popular demand, closing"
"in Canterbury Cathedral where four knights, Brito, Fitz, Morville, and Traci come to arrest Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. However, rather than arresting him, Becket is killed by Fitz. The knights then flee to Knaresborough Castle in Yorkshire where they ensconce themselves for a year to avoid the wrath of the public and the Pope. Over the course of four evenings, in January, March, September and December, the play portrays the gradual decline of the knights, showing their repressed desires, fears and misgivings. Emphasising clashes of personalities, the play glosses over the deeper political and historical consequences of the murder."
"to the bright lights of London and then returned to Australia and the Ensemble Theatre, by then re-located to a boatshed at the edge of Sydney Harbour in Kirribilli. There followed a period of instruction and practical experience with his teacher, Hayes Gordon. Livermore appeared in Ensemble productions of ""Orpheus Descending"", ""The Drunkard"", ""The Double Dealer"", ""The Canterville Ghost"", ""The Thracian Horses"", ""Miss Lonely Hearts"", ""The Physicists"" and ""The Real Inspector Hound"". He moved to Melbourne for a two and a half year stint with the Union Theatre Repertory Company, performing in the works of Rattigan, Ionesco, Shakespeare, Peter Ustinov,"
"in which he shows in superlative degree his pathos, his humour and his astounding mastery over [the] English language..."". The production was a commercial success, running for 726 performances. ""Separate Tables"" was presented at The Music Box, New York, on 25 October 1956. It was a transfer of the London production with the same principal players and many of the supporting cast. In ""The New York Times"", Brooks Atkinson wrote, ""Since Terence Rattigan has written a particularly fine play, it is only fair that it should be wonderfully well acted."" The production won one Tony award (for Leighton as best"
"Theatre Club, New York) 2004: ""Rattle of a Simple Man"" (Comedy Theatre, London) 2004: ""Becket"" (Theatre Royal Haymarket, London) 2004: ""Les Misérables"" (Queen's Theatre, London) 2005: ""Macbeth"" (Almeida Theatre, London) 2005: ""Twin Spirits"" (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) 2005: ""Don Carlos"" (Welsh National Opera, Cardiff & UK Tour) 2005: ""The Screams of Kitty Genovese"" (Public Theater, New York) 2006: ""The Beggar's Opera"" (Nissay Theatre, Tokyo) 2006: ""Twin Spirits"" (New Victory Theater, New York) 2006: ""Les Misérables"" (Broadhurst Theatre, New York) 2007: ""Dödsdansen"" (Dramaten, Stockholm) 2007: ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", (""Natsu no Yo no Yume"") (New National, Tokyo) 2007: ""Kinshu"" (Galaxy"
"in the UK: the Bournemouth Theatre Company (from 1966 to 1968); the New Shakespeare Company at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park (from 1968 to 1985); the Welsh National Theatre Company (from 1969 to 1971); the York Theatre Royal (from 1971 to 1976); the Nottingham Playhouse (from 1980 to 1984); and the Northcott Theatre, (from 1977 to 1980). Additionally, his work has been seen in the West End and on tour extensively throughout the UK, Canada, Denmark, and Ireland. Particularly successful were his touring productions of Sondheim's ""A Little Night Music"" and ""Company"", Shaw's ""The Devil's Disciple"", Somerset Maugham's"
"by Bob Carlton, with Peter Howitt as Ben and Tim Healy as Gus. In 2007 a 50th anniversary revival at the Trafalgar Studios was directed by Harry Burton, with Jason Isaacs as Ben and Lee Evans as Gus. In 2013 a revival at The Print Room was directed by Jamie Glover, with Clive Wood as Ben and Joe Armstrong as Gus. In 2004 The Oxford Playhouse presented ""The Dumb Waiter"" and Other Pieces by Harold Pinter, directed by Douglas Hodge with Jason Watkins as Ben and Toby Jones as Gus. The Dumb Waiter The Dumb Waiter is a one-act play"
"play at the Lyceum Theatre, London with elaborate Celtic sets for Cymbeline's palace gardens and interior rooms, a Roman banqueting hall for Posthumus's visit to Rome, a handsomely decorated bedchamber for Imogen, and a spectacular dream setting for the descent of Jupiter. Ben Greet at the Old Vic in 1918, on the other hand, chose a simple, Elizabethan approach. ""The Winter's Tale"" poses the challenges of time passing and a bear pursuing Antigonus off stage. In 1976, Trevor Nunn and John Barton cast John Nettles as both Time and the bear. At Stratford-upon-Avon in 1986, Terry Hands used a bearskin"