Stonyhurst College James Joyce's Ulysses) were educated at the school, (as were the sons of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh). George Archer-Shee, at the centre of Terence Rattigan's play "The Winslow Boy", is an alumnus. The school runs its own publication company, St Omer's Press, which publishes religious literature, and first began when the college was located at St Omer in Flanders. Pupils are required to participate in games on a regular basis. The school plays rugby union and other sporting activities are on offer, and since turning fully co-educational, hockey and rounders have widened the sports programme. Rugby has played a
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