Terence Rattigan by other writers: Other works including discussions on Rattigan's theatre: 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 Praise of Love (play) revived at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2006 and at the Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton in 2011. It was broadcast as a Radio drama on BBC Radio 4 the same year. It has become a staple of repertory theatre seasons since. In Praise of Love (play) In Praise of Love, originally entitled "After Lydia", is the first part of a 1973 double-bill play by the English playwright Terence Rattigan (the second half being "Before Dawn", a burlesque of the opera "Tosca"). It was the penultimate play he wrote. The play's action was loosely inspired by the true-life relationship between