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While the Sun Shines

Full-Length Play  /  2w, 5m

"A gay drawing-room comedy has come romping to the rescue of the faltering season." - The New York Herald-Tribune

While the Sun Shines

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    2w, 5m

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Summary
Mr. Rattigan has given a mild wartime slant to his play. One the eve of his marriage, the young and wealthy Earl of Harpenden puts up an American Lieutenant for the night; and in the morning dates him up with a former girl friend. The American mistakes the earl's fiancée for the girl friend, and the two of them fall in love with each other before he discovers his mistake. What with a French officer also in the race, the girl friend very much in evidence, and the fiancée's father, a deadbeat duke, adding to the complications, an evening of hilarious fun is the result.

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"A gay drawing-room comedy has come romping to the rescue of the faltering season." - The New York Herald-Tribune

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Terence Rattigan

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 ...

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