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Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 15m, 1boy(s)
Terence Rattigan
A woman and her lover, a man 20 years her junior, stand trial for the murder of her husband in Terence Rattigan's incendiary recreation of the infamous case of Alma Rattenbury and 18-year-old George Percy Stoner.
A woman and her lover, a man 20 years her junior, stand trial for the murder of her husband in this incendiary recreation of the infamous case of Alma Rattenbury and 18-year-old George Percy Stoner. The 1935 case, in which Rattenbury was accused of murdering her husband in their Bournemouth home, created an early tabloid sensation and cast sexual freedom in sharp relief against the the stifling morality of post-Victorian England. From the celebrated author of Separate Tables and The Browning Version, Cause Célèbre enjoyed a successful revival at London's Old Vic in 2011.
Conceived as a radio play, Cause Célèbre premiered as a stage play at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on 4 July, 1977.
Alma Rattenbury Francis Rattenbury Christopher Irene Riggs George Wood Edith Davenport John Davenport Tony Davenport Stella Morrison Randolph Browne Judge O'Connor Croom-Johnson Casswell Montagu Clerk of the Court Joan Webster Sergeant Bagwell Porter Warder Coroner
Bournemouth and London, 1934-1935.
“No one alive writes with such understanding of sexual love or with such profound pity for its victims.” – Daily Telegraph
Born in London on the 10th June 1911, Terence Rattigan (1911–1977) was educated at Harrow (Scholar) from 1925 to 1930 and Trinity College, Oxford (History Scholarship) BA to 1933. He served as a flight Lieutenant in the Central Command, RAF from 1940 to 1945. In 1934 he had b ...