TERENCE RATTIGAN

Based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and first staged in 1946, The Winslow Boy has been revived many times since, including at The Old Vic in 2013.Ronnie Winslow is expelled from naval college, having been accused of petty theft. Enraged, his father Arthur engages a lawyer to challenge the Admiralty to prove the charges in court but public opinion is very much against the Winslows, and each member of the family is suffering...This edition includes an authoritative introduction by Dan Rebellato, a biographical sketch and a chronology.A sterling example of Rattigans dramatic skill and humanity... deeply poignantTelegraphA playwright of acute emotional intelligence, elegant wit, and an extraordinary gift for expressive construction... thrillingIndependent

Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.The play opens with the failed suicide of Hester Collyer, who has deserted her husband for the raffish charms of an ex-fighter pilot.This edition includes an authoritative introduction by Dan Rebellato, biographical sketch and chronology.The Deep Blue Sea premiered at the Duchess Theatre, London, in March 1952. It has twice been adapted for film: in 1955, starring Vivien Leigh, and in 2011, starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale.a masterpiece... a play that cuts at the heartTelegraphprobably his greatest play... IbsenesqueFinancial Timesmasterly... a perennially moving playGuardianexcellent... particularly moving... interlaced with moments of humour and black comedyWhatsOnStage

Set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth, Separate Tables consists of two linked one-act plays. In the first a lonely divorcee tracks down her former husband in order to resume a kind of half-life with him. In the other a repressed young spinster offers brave moral support to a fake major accused of importuning women in a local cinema.In an alternative version, only recently discovered among Rattigans papers, the majors offence was revealed to be homosexual; these alternative scenes are published here for the first time.This edition includes an authoritative introduction, biographical sketch and chronology. Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan - Michael Billington