The Winslow Boy / Terence Rattigan → Обява 23978280

The Winslow Boy / Terence Rattigan

NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

Terence Mervyn Rattigan was born in London in 19u and educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford.

His



first great success as a playwright was with French Without Tears,



performed more than 1,000 times at the Criterion Theatre, London,



beginning in November 1936.

During the Second World War he served



in the R.A.F. as an air gunner, and also became the only author who has



had two plays performed more than a thousand times, the second being



While the Sun Shines (1943), which had over 1,100 performances at the



Globe Theatre.

Since then he has written a number of other



successes, including The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version



(1948), Adventure Story (1949), The Deep Blue Sea (1952), Separate



Tables (1954), and Ross, based on the life of Lawrence of Arabia, which



was produced at the Hay-market Theatre in i960.

Nearly all the plays mentioned here have also been filmed.

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