Terence Rattigan Terence Rattigan Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBE (10 June 191130 November 1977) was a British dramatist. He was one of England's most popular mid twentieth century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He wrote "The Winslow Boy" (1946), "The Browning Version" (1948), "The Deep Blue Sea" (1952) and "Separate Tables" (1954), among many others. A troubled homosexual, who saw himself as an outsider, his plays centred on issues of sexual frustration, failed relationships, and a world of repression and reticence. Terence Rattigan was born in 1911 in South Kensington, London, of Irish Protestant extraction. He had
Terence Davies popular music and a narration by Davies himself as a paean to his hometown of Liverpool. It received positive reviews on its premiere. "The Deep Blue Sea", based on the play by Terence Rattigan, was commissioned by the Rattigan Trust. The film was also met with widespread acclaim, with Rachel Weisz winning the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and topping the Village Voice Film Critics' Poll for best lead female performance as well. Davies eventually found finance for "Sunset Song" in 2012 and it went into production in 2014. In October 2014 the film went into