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A classic drama based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury who was tried with her 18-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. Cause Celebre was Terence Rattigan's last play. Published alongside a production at the Old Vic during the centenary year of Rattigan's birth.Read More

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    Cause Celebre is based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury who was tried with her 18-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. Condemned by the public more for her seduction of a young boy than for any involvement she may have had in her husband's death Alma's fate is left in the hands of the socially and sexually repressed jury forewoman Edith Davenport. Cause Celebre was Terence Rattigan's last play first produced in 1977. Cinematic in its structure non-linear and even circular the play was a departure for Rattigan from the well-made plays for which he was so well known: The Winslow Boy (1946) The Browning Version (1948) and especially Separate Tables (1954). Influenced by the younger playwrights of the 60s and 70s such as Orton and Pinter Rattigan has in Cause Celebre taken the very structure of which he was a master and turned it if not inside out then certainly on its prismatic side - allowing the dramatic thought of the piece to dictate its forward action.

  • Foyles

    Based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury, who, in 1935, went on trial with her eighteen-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. In the play, Terence Rattigan pits Alma against a formidable lady juror, whose own life offers a plangent counterpoint to the central tale of love, betrayal, guilt and obsession.Published in this edition alongside a major revival of the play at The Old Vic, London, Cause Célèbre was Rattigan's last play and was still running in the West End at the time of his death in 1977.It comes, like the other volumes in NHB's uniform edition of Rattigan's plays, with an authoritative introduction by Rattigan scholar Dan Rebellato.‘Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan’ - Michael Billington

  • 1854592076
  • 9781854592071
  • Terence Rattigan
  • 17 March 2011
  • Nick Hern Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 128
  • New edition
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