Separate Tables (Acting Edition S.) - Softcover

Rattigan, Terence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573014043 ISBN 13: 9780573014048

Publisher: 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.

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Review

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

About the Author

Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) hit the jackpot at the age of 25 with French Without Tears. There followed After The Dance, The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version, The Deep Blue Sea and Separate Tables. All are published in a handsome uniform edition by Nick Hern Books, with life sales of several thousand to date.

Edition details

• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Publication date: 1956
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0573014043
• ISBN 13: 9780573014048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104