Cause Celebre by Terence Rattigan

Cause Celebre by Terence Rattigan

Terence Rattigan

Characters: 15 male, 5 female, 1 boy

Unit set.

A woman on trial with her 20 years younger lover for the murder of her husband creates the title drama in this incendiary recreation of the infamous case of Alma Rattenbury and 18 year-old George Percy Stoner. In 1935, when accused of murdering her husband in their Bournemouth home, the headlines created an early tabloid sensation as woman and boy both take the blame, while sexual freedom is cast in sharp relief against the the stifling morality of post-Victorian England. From the celebrated author of Separate Tables and The Browning Version, Cause Celebre will be revived at London's Old Vic in Spring 2011.

No one alive writes with such understanding of sexual love or with such profound pity for its victims.-Daily Telegraph, London

TERENCE RATTIGAN (1911-1977) hit the jackpot with French Without Tears at the age of 25 and went on to write After the Dance, The Browning Version, The Deep Blue Sea, Separate Tables, and The Winslow Boy, among other works. The majority of Rattigan's plays are now available in attractive uniform editions from Nick Hern Publications, with over a thousand copies sold to date.