Terence Rattigan

The Works of Terence Rattigan

Listed under these tabbed pages are all the known produced works by Terence Rattigan together with the principal unproduced work.

Links are being developed from individual works to more detailed descriptions with a short synopsis, relevant photographs and images that provide greater detail about each particular work.

Notable revivals will be added when known.

This list has been created with the help of the chronological entries provided by Michael Darlow in his biography:

'Terence Rattigan, The Man and His Work by Michael Darlow, published by Quartet Books ISBN 0-7043-7114-6 • Buy Online? •

Terence Rattigan had, in the words of Harold Hobson, ‘the greatest natural talent for the stage of any man this century’. He was the most financially successful dramatist of his generation and his plays and screenplays continue to be performed on the West End stage and in the cinema.

In his lifetime he was a well known public figure, yet despite well-publicised friendships with people such as Noel Coward he hid his homosexuality for most of his life. In this extensively revised biography Michael Darlow has, for the first time, been able to describe this important aspect of his life and fully consider it in relation to his work.

Achieving great heights of fame during the 1930s, as well as several hugely successful West End theatre runs, Rattigan co-wrote the film Brighton Rock with Graham Greene and was twice nominated for Academy Awards for Best Screenplay’, becoming the highest paid screen writer of his generation. However, after the revolution in British theatre sparked by John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’ in 1956, Rattigan’s work was deemed ‘unfashionable’ and he left Britain, bitter, in the 1960’s.

Revised to celebrate the centenary of Rattigan’s birth, this portrait of a complex and fascinating man unfolds to provide a compelling case for him to be accepted as one of the great dramatists of the last century.

Michael Darlow began his career as an actor on stage and in television, and has both acted in, and directed Rattigan works on stage. He has made a number of award winning dramas and documentaries and is a fellow of The Royal Television Society.

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Date	Play title	First production	Theatre/Notes
1933	First Episode (with Philip Heimann)	11 September 1933	Q Theatre
1935	A Tale of Two Cities (with John Gielgud)	23 January 1950	St Brendan's College DS Clifton
1935	Grey Farm (with Hector Bolitho)	3 May 1940	Hudson Theatre New York
1936	French Without Tears	6 November 1936	Criterion Theatre, London
		28 September 1937	Henry Miller Theatre, New York
1939	After The Dance	21 June 1939	St James's Theatre, London
1938	Follow My Leader	16 January 1940	Apollo Theatre, London
1942	Flare Path	13 August 1942	Apollo Theatre, London
		23 December 1942	Henry Miller Theatre, New York
1943	While The Sun Shines	24 December 1943	Globe Theatre, London
		19 September 1944	Lyceum Theatre, New York
1944	Love In Idleness	20 December 1944	Lyric Theatre, London
	(aka: 'O Mistress Mine' and 'Less Than Kind')	23 January 1946	Empire Theatre, New York
1946	The Winslow Boy	23 May 1946	Lyric Theatre, London Ellen Terry Best Play Award
		29 October 1947	Empire Theatre, New York
1948	Playbill: The Browning Version Harlequinade	8 September 1948	Phoenix Theatre, London (The Browning Version - Ellen Terry Best Play Award)
		12 October 1949	Coronet Theatre, New York
1949	Adventure Story	17 March 1949	St James's Theatre, London
1950	Who Is Sylvia? (aka: 'Green After April')	24 October 1950	Criterion Theatre, London
1952	The Deep Blue Sea	6 March 1952	Duchess Theatre, London
		5 November 1952	Morosco Theatre, New York
1953	The Sleeping Prince	5 November 1953	Phoenix Theatre, London
	(aka: 'The Girl Who Came To Supper' - musical version)	1 November 1956	Coronet theatre, New York
1954	Separate Tables: Table by the Window Table Number Seven	22 September 1954	St James's Theatre, London
		25 October 1956	Music Box Theatre, New York
1958	Variation On A theme	8 May 1958	Globe Theatre, London
1960	Ross	12 May 1960	Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London
		26 December 1961	Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York
1960	Joie De Vivre (aka: 'French Without Tears' - musical version)	14 July 1960	Queen's Theatre, London
1963	Man And Boy	4 September 1963	Queen's Theatre, London
1970	A Bequest To The Nation	23 September 1970	Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London
1973	In Praise of Love: Before Dawn After Lydia	23 September 1973	Duchess Theatre, London
		10 December 1974	Morosco Theatre, New York
1976	Duologue (adapted from TV play)	February 1976	King's Head Theatre, London
1977	Cause Célèbre	4 July 1977	Her Majesty's Theatre, London

Date	Film titles	Director	Notes (including the name of studios offering current copies)
1937	Gypsy with Brock Williams)	Roy William Neill	With Roland Young, Chili Bouchier and Hiugh Williams - BFI (fragment only)
1940	French Without Tears (with Anatole de Grunwald and Ian Dalrymple)	Anthony Asquith	With Ray Milland, Ellen Drew, Janine Darcey and Roland Culver - Paramount
1941	Quiet Wedding (with Anatole de Grunwald and Esther McCracken)	Anthony Asquith	With Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr, Marjorie Fielding and A.E. Matthews _ Paramount
1942	The Day Will Dawn (US: The Avengers) (with Anatole de Grunwald, Patrick Kirwan and Frank Owen)	Harold French	With Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Deborah Kerr and Ralph Richardson - DD Home Entertainment
1942	Uncensored (with Wolfgang Wilhelm and Rodney Ackland)	Anthony Asquith	With Eric Portman,Phyllis Calvert, Griffith Jones, Raymond Lovell and Peter Glenville - Gaumont
1944	English Without Tears (US: Her Man Gilbey)	Harold French	With Michael Wilding, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Lilli Palmer, PeggyCummings and Margaret Rutherford - Rank
1945	Journey Together (story)	John Boulting	With Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling, David Tomlinson and Stuart Latham - Simply Media
1945	The Way To The Stars (US: Johnny in the Clouds) (with Anatole de Grunwald)	Anthony Asquith	With Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John and Stanley Holloway - Network
1947	Brighton Rock (with Graham Greene) (aka: Young Scarface in US)	John Boulting	With Richard Attenborough< Carol Marsh, Herminone Baddeley and William Hartnell - Optimum Home Entertainment
1947	While the Sun Shines (with Anatole de Grunwald)	Anthony Asquith	With Barbara White, Ronald SAquire and Brenda Bru ce - Pathe
1948	Bond Street (with Anatole de Grunwald and Rodney Ackland)	Gordon Parry	With Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen harrison, Derek Farr and Hazel Court - Associated British
1948	The Winslow Boy (with Anatole de Grunwald)	Anthony Asquith	With Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Margaret Leighton and Basil Radford - Optimum Home Entertainment
1951	The Browning Version	Anthony Asquith	With Michael Redgrave. Rattigan won the 1952 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay
1952	The Sound Barrier (US: Breaking the Sound Barrier)	David Lean	With Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, and Dinah Sheridan - Optimum Home Entertainment
1953	The Final Test	Anthony Asquith	With Jack Warner, Robert Morley, Adrianne Allen and George Relph - Odeon Entertainment
1954	The Man Who Loved Redheads	Harold French	With Moira Shearer, John Justin, Roland Culver and Gladys Cooper - British Lion
1955	The Deep Blue Sea	Anatole Litvak	With Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams and Moira Lister - 20th Century Fox
1957	The Prince and the Showgirl	Laurence Olivier	With Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Sybil Thorndike and Richard Wattis - Warner Home Video
1958	Separate Tables (with John Gay)	Delbert Mann	With Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Wendy Hiller and Burt Lancaster - MGM Entertainment
1963	The VIPs	Anthony Asquith	With Elizabeth taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jordan, Elsa Martinelli and Margaret Ruthefford - Warner Brothers
1964	The Yellow Rolls-Royce	Anthony Asquith	With Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Jeanne Moreau and George C. Scott - Cornerstone Media
1969	Goodbye, Mr Chips (screenplay adaptation)	Herbert Ross	With Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave and Alison Leggatt - Warner Home Video
1973	Bequest to the Nation (in the US The Nelson Affair)	James Cellan-Jones	With Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Michael Jayston and Anthony Quayle - Universal
1994	The Browning Version	Mike Figgis	With Albert Finney, Great Scacchi and Matthew Modine - Paramount Home Entertainment
1999	The Winslow Boy	David Mamet	With Nigel Hawthorne, Gemma Jones, Rebecca Pidgeon and Matthew Pidgeon - UCA

Date	Television titles	Broadcast	Director
1951	The Final Test	BBC - 29 July 1951	Royston Morley
1955	The Browning Version (starred Peter Cushing)	1955
1958	The Winslow Boy	13 March 1958
1961	Adventure Story - BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (with Sean Connery)	BBC - 12 June 1961
1962	Heart to Heart	BBC - 6 December 1962	Alvin Rakoff
1964	Ninety Years (with Noël Coward as narrator)	BBC - 29 November 1964	Michael Mills
1966	Nelson - A Portrait in Miniature	ATV - 21 March 1966	Stuart Burge
1968	All on Her Own	BBC2 - 25 September 1968	Hal Burton
1970	Separate Tables (Play of the Month)	15 March 1970
1971	Man and Boy	Anglia - 6 June 1971
1972	High Summer (adapted from an earlier, unperformed stage play)	Thames Television, 1972	Peter Duguid
1973	Harlequinade	Anglia - 29 April 1973
1976	French Without Tears (Play of the Month)	BBC - 16 May 1976
1976	In Praise of Love	Anglia - 14 March 1976
1977	The Winslow Boy (Ply of the Month)	BBC - 16 January 1977
1983	Separate Tables (with Julie Christie and Alan Bates)	1983	John Schlesinger
1984	Separate Tables	HTV - 2 January 1984
1985	The Browning Version	BBC - 31 December 1985	Michael A. Simpson
1987	Cause Célèbre (off-air recording)	Anglia - 23 August 1987
1992	After The Dance (Performance)	BBC - 5 December 1992
1994	The Deep Blue Sea (Performance - off-air recording)	BBC - 12 November 1994
Date	Radio title	Broadcast	Producer
1975	Cause Célèbre	BBC Radio 4 - 27 October 1975	Norman Wright

Date	Titles
Stage
1927	Integer Vitae (The Pure in Heart)
1935	Black Forest
1939	Two Dozen Roses	(adapted from a play by Aldo Benetii)
1939	Le Valet Maitre	(adapted from a play by Paul armont and Leopold Marchant)
1960	Like Father
1968	Pas de Deux

Films
1946	Crime Wave
1947	World Première
1949	O Mistress Mine	(adapted from 'Love in Idleness')
1969	Burke and Wills

Television
1974	Nijinsky

Terence Rattigan's plays and film/TV scripts are published by Samuel French and Nick Hern Books.

More to follow. . .

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The Works of Terence Rattigan