"Terence Rattigan Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBE (10 June 191130 November 1977) was a British dramatist. He was one of England's most popular mid twentieth century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He wrote ""The Winslow Boy"" (1946), ""The Browning Version"" (1948), ""The Deep Blue Sea"" (1952) and ""Separate Tables"" (1954), among many others. A troubled homosexual, who saw himself as an outsider, his plays centred on issues of sexual frustration, failed relationships, and a world of repression and reticence. Terence Rattigan was born in 1911 in South Kensington, London, of Irish Protestant extraction. He had"
"Separate Tables Separate Tables is the collective name of two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both taking place in the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth, on the south coast of England. The first play, entitled ""Table by the Window"", focuses on the troubled relationship between a disgraced Labour politician and his ex-wife. The second play, ""Table Number Seven"", is set about eighteen months after the events of the previous play, and deals with the touching friendship between a repressed spinster and a kindly but bogus man posing as an upper-class retired army officer, Major Pollock. The two principal roles in both"
"Outward Bound (play) Outward Bound is a 1923 play written by Sutton Vane. A group of seven passengers meet in the lounge of an ocean liner at sea and realise that they have no idea why they are there, or where they are bound. Each of them eventually discovers that they are dead, and that they have to face judgment from an Examiner, who will determine whether they are to go to Heaven or Hell. Producers stayed away from such an unusual combination of fantasy and drama, so Vane staged it himself, painting his own backdrops and building his own"
"""Return Single"" (Beaver Row Press, 1986); ""Long Tongue"" (Beaver Row Press, 1982). Hartigan's theatre piece ""Beds"" was first performed at the Damer Hall in 1982 as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Hartigan's full length tragi-comedy ""I do like to be beside the seaside"" is set in an old peoples home. Hartigan won the Mobil Prize for Playwriting for her play ""The Secret Game"" (Chiswick books, 2014) in 1995. ""In Other Worlds"" (2003) was commissioned and performed by Ohio University, USA, then performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in New Zealand. ""Jersey Lilies"" was performed at the Samuel Beckett"
"The Foreigner (play) The Foreigner is a two-act comedy by American playwright Larry Shue. The play has become a staple of professional and amateur theatre. ""The Foreigner"" has earned two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production. In a resort-style fishing lodge in rural Georgia, the plot revolves around the visit of two guests, Englishmen Charlie Baker and Staff Sergeant Froggy LeSueur. Naturally shy, Charlie is also depressed because his beloved wife may be dying. He tells Froggy, ""I should have stayed with Mary, at the hospital. When a man's"
"""DC Theater Scene"" described a performance by the Bay Theatre in Annapolis, Maryland, as ""a hit! ... culminating in a hilarious climax and heart-warming ending."" The Foreigner (play) The Foreigner is a two-act comedy by American playwright Larry Shue. The play has become a staple of professional and amateur theatre. ""The Foreigner"" has earned two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production. In a resort-style fishing lodge in rural Georgia, the plot revolves around the visit of two guests, Englishmen Charlie Baker and Staff Sergeant Froggy LeSueur. Naturally shy, Charlie"
"the screen by Rattigan. It starred Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster and Wendy Hiller. John Schlesinger directed a television film version in 1983, with Julie Christie and Alan Bates as the two couples, with Claire Bloom as Miss Cooper and Irene Worth as Mrs Railton-Bell. Separate Tables Separate Tables is the collective name of two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both taking place in the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth, on the south coast of England. The first play, entitled ""Table by the Window"", focuses on the troubled relationship between a disgraced Labour politician and his ex-wife. The"
"The House on the Borderland The House on the Borderland (1908) is a supernatural horror novel by British fantasist William Hope Hodgson. The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse's stay at a remote house, and his experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly dimensions. American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft listed ""The House on the Borderland"" and other works by Hodgson among his greatest influences, and Terry Pratchett has called the novel ""the Big Bang in my private universe as a science fiction and fantasy reader and, later, writer"". On the third day of their fishing holiday to the"
"Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, and Eleanor Parker starred. Outward Bound (play) Outward Bound is a 1923 play written by Sutton Vane. A group of seven passengers meet in the lounge of an ocean liner at sea and realise that they have no idea why they are there, or where they are bound. Each of them eventually discovers that they are dead, and that they have to face judgment from an Examiner, who will determine whether they are to go to Heaven or Hell. Producers stayed away from such an unusual combination of fantasy and drama, so Vane staged it himself,"
"The Seafarer (play) The Seafarer is a 2006 play by Irish playwright Conor McPherson. It is set on Christmas Eve in Baldoyle, a coastal suburb north of Dublin city. The play centers on James ""Sharky"" Harkin, an alcoholic who has recently returned to live with his blind, aging brother, Richard Harkin. As Sharky attempts to stay off the bottle during the holidays, he contends with the hard-drinking, irascible Richard and his own haunted conscience. It was nominated for multiple Tony Awards as well as the Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award for Best Play. The name of the play links"
"Outlying Islands (play) Outlying Islands is a 2002 drama play written by Scottish playwright David Greig. Set on a remote Scottish island in the summer of 1939, two ornithologistsyoung, impulsive and English Robert and the more-conservative-yet naive Scottish Johnare sent to catalogue the bird colonies on the island. Together with the stern lease-holder of the island, Mr Kirk, and his young niece Ellen, they are the only inhabitants for the summer. The play ruthlessly uncovers the motivations of its characters, resulting in a painful triangle between John, Robert and Ellen. It is about nature versus technology, old versus new, with"
"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;"
"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"
"Tony Goldwyn, Courtney Vance, Nathan Lane, Robert Sean Leonard, and Mare Winningham. The Boys Next Door (play) The Boys Next Door is a play by Tom Griffin, first produced in the 1988/89 season. Set in the Boston area, it deals with four men with various mental disabilities who live in a group home. It takes place over roughly a two-month period and consists of brief vignettes about the men's lives. The play provides a humorous commentary on the men's lives, taking a surprising turn as Barry's father comes to visit and as Jack (their caretaker) accepts a new job. It"
"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,"
"of interwoven vignettes that end more as a fadeout than a neatly tied-up beginning, middle and end story, the ten scenes nevertheless allow you get to know all the characters."" [{Category:Plays set in Massachusetts]] Coastal Disturbances Coastal Disturbances is a play by Tina Howe, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1986 and transferred to Broadway. It received a Tony Award nomination as Best Play. The play takes place on a beach in Massachusetts. Howe said that she ""really wanted to write a love story... I think I've gone to great pains to bury my romantic and sexual side, and that I've been"
"agitated state, we learn through Doran’s memories that she initiated the relationship. After Doran leaves the room, Polly seems content, suggesting that she was putting on a show of anguish for his sake. The story closes with Mrs. Mooney calling Polly down so that Mr. Doran can speak to her. The Boarding House ""The Boarding House"" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection ""Dubliners."" Mrs. Mooney, separated from her husband, a butcher who descended into alcoholism, runs a boarding house for working men. Her daughter Polly entertains the boarders by singing and flirting with them."
"is in the production."" CurtainUp reviewer Les Gutman calls the play ""not terribly interesting"", citing in particular a fundamental incompatibility between the source material's comedy and Stoppard's absurdist style. Rough Crossing Rough Crossing is a 1984 comedic play by British playwright Tom Stoppard, ""freely adapted from Ferenc Molnár's ""Play at the Castle"""". Set on board the SS ""Italian Castle"", it follows world-renowned playwrights Sandor Turai and Alex Gal in their attempts to preserve, with the assistance of the unorthodox cabin steward Dvornichek, the relationship of their composer, Adam Adam, and his love, the leading lady Natasha Navratilova, despite the interference"
"Homeward Bound (play) Homeward Bound is a stage drama by Elliott Hayes. It was originally commissioned by the Stratford Festival and produced for its 1991 season. Novelist Margaret Atwood wrote about the play: ""Elliott Hayes has fashioned a brisk, intricate, deranging and tightly strung play...[his] art is a funhouse mirror, and what we see in it are fragments of ourselves, distorted, grotesque even, but recognizable."". Canadian journalist and theatre artist Richard Ouzounian wrote in 2004 that Homeward Bound ""remains one of the greatest plays that anybody has written in this country in my lifetime"". The play has been produced numerous"
"times since its Stratford debut. Notable productions include: Homeward Bound (play) Homeward Bound is a stage drama by Elliott Hayes. It was originally commissioned by the Stratford Festival and produced for its 1991 season. Novelist Margaret Atwood wrote about the play: ""Elliott Hayes has fashioned a brisk, intricate, deranging and tightly strung play...[his] art is a funhouse mirror, and what we see in it are fragments of ourselves, distorted, grotesque even, but recognizable."". Canadian journalist and theatre artist Richard Ouzounian wrote in 2004 that Homeward Bound ""remains one of the greatest plays that anybody has written in this country in"
"her deepest and most secret fears, she's taken an important step towards creating a lasting relationship with him. But whether any trust between men and women is actually possible remains, at the end of the play, an open question. Seascape with Sharks and Dancer Seascape with Sharks and Dancer is a 1974 play by Don Nigro. The story focuses on a young man, Ben, who saves a young woman named Tracy from the ocean outside his beach house. The struggle between his more tolerant approach to life and her fear of human relationships becomes the main conflict in the play."
"The Boys Next Door (play) The Boys Next Door is a play by Tom Griffin, first produced in the 1988/89 season. Set in the Boston area, it deals with four men with various mental disabilities who live in a group home. It takes place over roughly a two-month period and consists of brief vignettes about the men's lives. The play provides a humorous commentary on the men's lives, taking a surprising turn as Barry's father comes to visit and as Jack (their caretaker) accepts a new job. It was adapted into a television film in 1996 by Hallmark Entertainment starring"
"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"
"Rough Crossing Rough Crossing is a 1984 comedic play by British playwright Tom Stoppard, ""freely adapted from Ferenc Molnár's ""Play at the Castle"""". Set on board the SS ""Italian Castle"", it follows world-renowned playwrights Sandor Turai and Alex Gal in their attempts to preserve, with the assistance of the unorthodox cabin steward Dvornichek, the relationship of their composer, Adam Adam, and his love, the leading lady Natasha Navratilova, despite the interference of lothario actor Ivor Fish. It was adapted from another play, ""The Play at the Castle"" by Hungarian dramatist Ferenc Molnár. Another English-language adaptation of this play was written"
"The Deep Blue Sea (play) The Deep Blue Sea is a British stage play by Terence Rattigan from 1952. Rattigan based his story and characters in part on his secret relationship with Kenny Morgan, and the aftermath following the end of their relationship. The play was first performed in London on 6 March 1952, directed by Frith Banbury, and won praise for actress Peggy Ashcroft, who co-starred with Kenneth More. In the USA, the Plymouth Theater staged the play in October 1952, with Margaret Sullavan. The play with Sullavan subsequently transferred to Broadway, with its Broadway premiere on 5 November"
"the lyrics of which were inspired by historical tales of wreckers luring ships to their demise. ""Crimson Shore"" is part of the Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The main story involves a ship, the ""Pembroke Castle"", being purposefully wrecked on the rocks off the coast of Massachusetts. ""Coot Club"", the fifth of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of books, features wreckers on the Norfolk Broads. ""The Wreck of the Zanzibar"" is a Whitbread Award-winning children's novel by Michael Morpurgo, set on the Isles of Scilly. ""H.M.S. Dolores"" is a 2016 board game whose plot centers"
"Rattigan on various film projects. While the Sun Shines (play) While the Sun Shines is a comedy play by the British writer Terence Rattigan which was first staged in 1943. It was a popular success, running for 1,154 performances, even more than Rattigan's previous hit ""French Without Tears"", and proved his longest running West End play. A Broadway production followed in 1944, though it ran for only 39 performances. The action takes place over three acts in an apartment at The Albany where the wealthy Earl of Harpenden, serving in wartime as an ordinary seaman, is about to marry his"
"in 1960. In 1957, his Irish language play, ""An Giall"" (""The Hostage"") opened in the Damer Theatre, Dublin. Reminiscent of Frank O'Connor's Guests of the Nation, it portrays the detention, in a teeming Dublin house in the late 1950s, of a British conscript soldier seized by the IRA as a hostage pending the scheduled execution in Northern Ireland of an imprisoned IRA volunteer. The hostage falls in love with an Irish convent girl, Teresa, working as a maid in the house. Their innocent world of love is incongruous among their surroundings—the house also serves as a brothel. In the end,"
"Coastal Disturbances Coastal Disturbances is a play by Tina Howe, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1986 and transferred to Broadway. It received a Tony Award nomination as Best Play. The play takes place on a beach in Massachusetts. Howe said that she ""really wanted to write a love story... I think I've gone to great pains to bury my romantic and sexual side, and that I've been exploring my fanciful, artistic side. I thought it was time to try to face those deeper longings."" ""Coastal Disturbances"" focuses on lovers trying to come to terms with each other. The play opened Off-Broadway"
"the threat of the coming world war looming over it all. The play was first published and performed in 2002 and won a Fringe First award and a Herald Angel award after its premiere at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland, during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was revived at the Traverse in October 2014. The play is to be revived in January 2019 by Atticist at the King's Head Theatre in London. Outlying Islands (play) Outlying Islands is a 2002 drama play written by Scottish playwright David Greig. Set on a remote Scottish island in the summer of 1939,"
"of Niu Sila, and also member of the Naked Samoans. Lastly, theatre plays were used to further show their identity. Some notable plays are ""Unlikely Places"" by Gordon Dryland, a play that focused on the cultural friction and tension between the New Zealander and the Samoans. ""Niu Sila"" is a story about a friendship spanning over thirty years, two cultures and one multicultural neighbourhood. ""In 1970s New Zealand, six-year-old Ioane Tafioka, a fresh off the boat from the island of Samoa, moves in next door to six-year-old Niuen kid Peter Burton."" They begin an unlikely friendship that will change their"
"houses on either side of them. ""As they divert themselves from their own mortality with food, cocktails, the ""New York Times"" crossword puzzle, fireworks, charades, and biting jabs at each other and the boys next door, the two couples find little to celebrate about themselves or their country on its birthday."" The play opened Off-Broadway in a Manhattan Theatre Club production at the New York City Center Stage 1 on May 28, 1991 and closed on January 5, 1992 after 250 performances. The play transferred to the Lucille Lortel Theatre on January 9, 1992 and closed on June 27, 1992."
"painting his own backdrops, building his own sets, and bringing together a company of actors, all for a reported total of $600. ""Outward Bound"" is about a small, motley group of eight passengers who meet in the lounge of an ocean liner at sea and realize that they have no idea why they are there, or where they are bound. Each of them eventually discovers that they are dead, and that they're about to face judgment from an Examiner about whether they are to go to Heaven or Hell. In post-World War I England, with its reflective, pacifist mood—many hundreds"