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But the play is clearly a coded account of bisexual promiscuity and, without exculpating his hero's reckless selfishness, Williams enters a plea for tolerance and understanding that anticipates later plays of the decade such as Rattigan's Separate Tables.
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The Deep Blue Sea, arguably Rattigan's greatest play, shows a heroine driven to attempted suicide by the desertion of a lover who cannot fulfil her sexual and emotional needs.
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A couple of weeks ago I saw the Terence Rattigan play Cause Célèbre, based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury, who was put on public trial in 1935 with her 18-year-old lover for violently killing her husband.
The spate of injunctions shows no progress in the way courts deal with celebrities 2011
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London Theater "Cause Celebre" presents Terence Rattigan's last play in a new incarnation by Thea Sharrock.
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It has shown that the very qualities for which Rattigan was once so despised are a source of strength.
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It has long been recognised that a great injustice was done when the plays of Terence Rattigan were swept aside by the Royal Court-led theatrical revolution of the 1950s.
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But although it is true that Rattigan was, as Winston Churchill observed on a visit to Flare Path, "a master of understatement", his work is also a sustained assault on our fear of passion and commitment.
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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.
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It helped, of course, that Rattigan learned about dramatic structure by studying the Greeks at school.
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But the centenary of Rattigan's birth has not only brought a spate of revivals – the latest is In Praise of Love at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton.
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