First published on Sun 21 Feb 2021 05.30 EST
Terence Rattigan has long been rescued from the theatrical limbo into which he was cast by Kenneth Tynan and the ironing board. Qualities that caused him to be despised â reticence, obliqueness â now often appear to be not evasions but subtleties.
The Deep Blue Sea (1952) has dated better than
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All on Her Own, first seen on television in 1968, is more curio than treasure. This half-hour monologue features a woman returning to her Hampstead home from a party. Alastair Knightsâs sumptuous production provides a rarity in streamed drama: a glimpse of more than one room, as she glides from semi-darkness into light. She is alone; she has recently been widowed. The questions that arise, with more force as she hits the whisky, are to do with victimhood. Is this a sad or a sinister woman? Was her husbandâs death truly an accident or did he kill himself? Did she suck the air from their marriage by he
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★★★★☆If Terence Rattigan’s name didn’t appear on the credits, it would be easy to assume that this taut, despairing monologue came from the pen of Alan Bennett. There may not be much of Bennett’s dark