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5 giorni fa · By Gill Kirk , Thursday May 16, 2024. Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea at Bath’s Ustinov Studio is a shining soap bubble of a play. It turns effortlessly in the air before you, an unpredictable rainbow slipping over its surface, and you are so entranced you dare not breathe. First staged in 1952, the tale is of that time ...
5 giorni fa · “The Deep Blue Sea” at Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath. Simon Thomas in the South West. 10 May 2024. A few decades ago seeing a Terence Rattigan play seemed like an impossibility. Around the time of the playwright’s death in 1977, and during the years following, his work was so deeply unfashionable that producers just wouldn’t touch it.
3 giorni fa · Ustinov Studio, until 1 JuneWords by Emma Clegg The first performance of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea in 1952 was delivered to a hushed, enraptured audience and ended with cheers and massive applause. A critic of the day described it as, “the best play Mr Rattigan has written. This is not mere impersonation. It is, and excitingly, life”. Certainly the roll call of extraordinary ...
5 giorni fa · In 1952, when The Deep Blue Sea was first put on at the Duchess Theatre in London, it would have been impossible for the story to have featured homosexual love. It would be another 15 years before the recommendations of the Wolfenden Report would result in the Sexual offences Act, which would decriminalise homosexual behaviour between consenting adults.
5 giorni fa · Both plays – The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan – are semi-autobiographical family dramas written by gay playwrights at a time when homosexuality was illegal in their countries. Consequently, the illusions to main characters’ sexuality / gender had to be subverted and repressed ...
6 giorni fa · The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan. Medway Little Theatre, Rochester, ME1 1HY. Wed 15th May 2024 7:30PM. Directed by Paul Doust. The Deep Blue Sea is the story of Hester Collyer, a middle aged clergy-man's daughter, and her obsessive desire for her younger and drunken lover; a man whose own feelings for Hester have never changed.
4 giorni fa · The Deep Blue Sea (Ustinov Studio, Bath) Verdict: A plunge into the depths ★★★★★ HESTER COLLYER is curled beneath a blanket beside a cold gas fire. The reason for her despair is her younger lover, Freddie, who can’t reciprocate her passion. She had left her devoted husband, a distinguished judge, to be with him.
