Chris Keates & Philip Halpin
The Deep Blue Sea begins with neighbours discovering Hester Collyer who has tried and failed to commit suicide. Some time before, she left her husband, a respectable High Court Judge, for a semi-alcoholic former R.A.F. pilot. The relationship was physical and passionate but his ardour has cooled, leaving her emotionally stranded and desperate. The aftershocks of her attempted suicide unravel even the remnants of this relationship, but by the end she is brought to a hard decision to live, partly through the intercession of another resident of the tenement house, Mr. Miller. These two outcasts, socially ostracised, find a curious and moving kinship. |
Other Terence Rattigan plays performed by RSC are:
Harlequinade (2010)
The Winslow Boy (1983)
Cause Celebre (1979)
The Browning Version (1976)