Flare Path - Softcover

Rattigan, Terence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573111286 ISBN 13: 9780573111280

Publisher: Samuel French Ltd, 1978

Synopsis

Filmed as The Way to the Stars and set in the 1940s, Rattigan's famous play concerns Patricia's love for a film actor, despite her marriage to Flight-Lieutenant Teddy Graham. Going to the hotel to break with Teddy, followed by Peter, Pat encounters Doris, married to a Polish Count, who is one of two pilots not to return from a bombing raid. Hearing the Count's last letter, Pat realizes how much Teddy needs her, and gives Peter his dismissal.

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Review

Oh! What a lovely wartime drama. --Daily Mail

A three-handkerchief weepie that somehow manages to be both profoundly moving and wonderfully funny...cuts at the heart like a knife. --Telegraph

What the play provides, with Rattigan's characteristic flair for understatement, is a deeply moving portrait of people at war...Rattigan's grasp of the emotional power of English reticence makes this wartime play overwhelmingly moving. --Guardian

About the Author

Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) hit the jackpot at the age of 25 with French Without Tears and followed this success with, among others, The Browning Version, The Deep Blue Sea, Flare Path, Separate Tables and The Winslow Boy. Most of Rattigan's plays are currently published in handsome uniform editions by Nick Hern Books, with life sales of several thousand to date.

Edition details

• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0573111286
• ISBN 13: 9780573111280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138