AFTER THE DANCE

Recent years have seen a sustained revival of the work of Terence Rattigan. New productions have been greeted with surprised delight that the acknowledged master of the 'well made play' can continue to provoke such powerful emotions. As Rattigan himself wrote 'I believe that the best plays are about people, and not about things'. This volume is one of a series of new editions of his most enduring work. Each has an authoritative and up-to-date introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.

First performed to great acclaim in 1939 but subsequently forgotten until a BBC-TV revival in 1994, AFTER THE DANCE is back in print for the first time in fifty years. Set in the Mayfair flat of a high-living, hard-drinking writer, the plot turns on his simultaneous involvement with his wife (who commits suicide) and an earnest-minded younger woman. Rattigan's attack on the morel vacuity of these 'bright young things', unknowingly poised on the brink of war, was praised in the Sunday Times in 1994 as 'a subversion of the well-made drama for Rattigan was later to be dismissed'.

Cast: 8 Men, 5 Women, plus extras

First Produced:1939-St James' Theatre, London

ISBN: 1-85459-217-3

Price £6.99 Sold in UK only