Terence Rattigan previously been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), in June 1958. He moved back to Britain, where he experienced a minor revival in his reputation before his death. Rattigan died in Hamilton, Bermuda, from bone cancer in 1977, aged 66. His cremated remains were deposited in the family vault at Kensal Green Cemetery. There was a revival of "The Deep Blue Sea" in 1993, at the Almeida Theatre, London, directed by Karel Reisz and starring Penelope Wilton. A string of successful revivals followed, including "The Winslow Boy" at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2001 (with David
Hands Across the Sea (play) "The Times" said of the play: "As a piece of production it is, technically, of the utmost brilliance; as an entertainment, in its own kind frothily faultless. Coward's fellow-dramatist Terence Rattigan considered it "the best short comedy ever written." Hands Across the Sea (play) Hands Across the Sea is a short comic play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up "", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, "A short play, having a great advantage over a long one in that it can sustain