Separate Tables - Two Plays - Couverture souple

Rattigan, Terence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0573014043 ISBN 13 : 9780573014048

Editeur : Samuel French Ltd, 1956

Synopsis

These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England's south coast. Except for the two leads in each (which may be doubled) the same characters appear in both. In Table by the Window, a down-at-the-heels journalist is confronted by his ex-wife, a former model who provoked him to the violent act that sent him to prison, destroying his future. Still in love, they nevertheless go through another terrible scene and it is the hotel manager, Miss Cooper, who helps repair their broken lives. In Table Number Seven, a 'self-made' army colonel without any true background and education to which he lays claim, finds solace with a spinster over the objections of her ruthless, domineering mother. When a sordid scandal threatens to drive them apart, Miss Cooper again comes to the rescue.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 Rattigan's papers, the major's 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 by Professor Dan Rebellato.

Revue de presse

Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan. --Guardian

Separate Tables reveals Rattigan's empathetic ability to reach deep into the heart of lonely lives of quiet desperation... There are moments here as moving as Chekhov and as Painful as Strindberg. --Daily Telegraph

(Rattigan is) the theatrical patron saint of repressed feeling, wells of loneliness, situational chat and unspoken desire... and suddenly he is all the rage. --Guardian

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Samuel French Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1956
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0573014043
• ISBN 13: 9780573014048
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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