The Winslow Boy / Terence Rattigan
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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