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Man and Boy review – Rattigan’s murky reunion staged in silver-screen style

A financier facing corruption charges is reunited with his son in this high-concept mishmash of screwball comedy and financial thriller

The Guardian - UK

Man & Boy review: Rattigan revival has a great, grandstanding lead performance

3/5 Terence Rattigan’s drama about a monstrous New York financier sees some big performances take over the National Theatre

Evening Standard

‘As evil as Iago’: the return of Terence Rattigan’s shocking Man and Boy

Rattigan hoped his 1954 tale about a swindler who exploits his son’s sexual allure would prove him a serious dramatist. Its scandalous story reveals much about the playwright and resonates freshly

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In Praise of Love at Orange Tree Theatre review: real warmth with the cliches of the age

4/5 This Terence Rattigan play is about repression and marriage which has warmth beneath its study in non-communication

Evening Standard

In Praise of Love review – secrets and lies circle a family on the brink

Amelia Sears’ production of Terence Rattigan’s knotted drama contains warmth – and love – beneath the disappointments of married life

The Guardian - UK

The Deep Blue Sea at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: Tamsin Greig is shatteringly good

4/5 Terence Rattigan’s 1952 tragedy of quiet desperation is as potent as ever

Evening Standard

Summer 1954 review – Rattigan double bill packs an intellectual and emotional punch

Men struggling to hide their feelings are uncloaked in James Dacre’s astute revival of the playwright’s Table Number Seven and The Browning Version

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Summer 1954 review – Rattigan double-bill is a moving slice of British social history

Two one-act plays explore mid-century loneliness, exclusion and sexuality in a fine production starring Nathaniel Parker and a scene-stealing Siân Phillips

The Guardian - UK

The Deep Blue Sea review – Tamsin Greig adds bite to Terence Rattigan

As a woman who has left her husband for a dissolute younger man in postwar London, Greig’s quiet despair compels

The Guardian - UK

‘You wiped the floor with me!’ Tamsin Greig and Oliver Chris are having a riot with Rattigan

They are comedy sparring partners from Green Wing. Can the duo play stricken lovers in The Deep Blue Sea, the eviscerating play Rattigan poured his own heartbreak into? Warning: contains spoilers

The Guardian - UK

Mark Kermode on… the revered British director Terence Davies: ‘He had to fight to get every film made’

From Distant Voices, Still Lives to Benediction, the lyrical work of the late director was suffused with the ‘ecstasy’ of cinema – and his fraught Liverpool childhood

The Guardian - UK

‘He changed my life’: Tom Hiddleston, Rachel Weisz and more on Terence Davies

Terence Davies, who died last Saturday, was a visionary British director, who brought passion and eccentricity to every film. Actors including Jennifer Ehle, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale and Peter Mullan recall his unique style and sensitivity

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