Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan Separate Tables. A double-bill by Terence Rattigan - Table by the Window / Table Number Seven . Two plays about loneliness at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth. Note: The setting and cast/characters are the same for both plays, with the exception of the two leads who change characters. Separate Tables: Original London West End Production 1954. Opened 22 September 1954, Closed 30 June 1956 at the St James Theatre (now demolished) The original cast for Table by the Window stars Eric Porter as 'Mr Malcolm' and Margaret Leighton as 'Mrs Shankland'. The cast for Table Number Seven stars Eric Porter as 'Major Pollock' and Margaret Leighton as 'Miss Railton-Bell'. The cast for both plays featured Jane Eccles as 'Lady Matheson', May Hallatt as 'Miss Meacham', Aubrey Mather as 'Mr Fowler', Beryl Measor as 'Miss Cooper' and Phylliss Neilson-Terry as 'Mrs Railton-Bell' with Basil Henson as 'Mr Charles Sratton', Patricia Raine as 'Miss Jean Tanner / Mrs Jean Stratton', Marion Fawcett as 'Mabel' and Priscilla Morgan as 'Doreen'. Directed by Peter Glenville with designs by Michael Weight. Kay Walsh was originally scheduled to star alongside Eric Porter, but she left prior to the pre-west end try-out in Liverpool due to 'artistic differances' and was replaced by Margaret Leighton. The St James' Theatre was a 1,200-seat theatre located in King Street in St James's, London. Separate Tables became the St James' longest running production with it's 515th performance on Thursday 29 December 1955 and by time the production closed on Saturday 30 June 1956, it had played a total of 726 performances. Following its closure in the West End, this production transferred to New York's Broadway opening on 25 October 1956 for an eleven month run with six of the London cast reprising their roles: Eric Portman and Margaret Leighton with Beryl Measor, Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Jane Eccles and May Hallatt. Margaret Leighton won the Tony Award for 'Best Actress in a Play'. Separate Tables: 1st London West End Revival 1977. Previewed 12 January 1977, Opened 17 January 1977, Closed Saturday 20 August 1977 at the Apollo Theatre. The original cast for Table by the Window stars John Mills as 'Mr Malcolm' and Jill Bennett as 'Mrs Shankland'. The cast for Table Number Seven stars John Mills as 'Major Pollock' and Jill Bennett as 'Miss Railton-Bell'. The cast for both plays featured Margaret Courtenay as 'Mrs Railton-Bell', Rose Hill as 'Miss Meacham', Raymond Huntley as 'Mr Fowler', Ambrosine Phillpotts as 'Lady Matheson' and Zena Walker as 'Miss Cooper' with Paul Gregory as 'Mr Charles Sratton', Delia Lindsay as 'Miss Jean Tanner / Mrs Jean Stratton', Shelia Mitchell as 'Mabel' and Jean Perkins as 'Doreen'. Directed by Michael Blakemore with designs by Annena Stubbs and ligting by Robert Bryan. Separate Tables: 2nd London West End Revival 1993. Previewed 23 June 1993, Opened 5 July 1993, Closed 30 October 1993 at the Albery Theatre (now Noel Coward Theatre) The cast for Table by the Window stars Peter Bowles as 'Mr Malcolm' and Patricia Hodge as 'Mrs Shankland'. The cast for Table Number Seven stars Peter Bowles as 'Major Pollock' and Patricia Hodge as 'Miss Railton-Bell'. The cast for both plays featured Rosemary Leach as 'Mrs Railton-Bell', Miriam Karlin as 'Miss Meacham', Rachel Gurney as 'Lady Matheson', Charlotte Cornwell as 'Miss Cooper' and Ernest Clark as 'Mr Fowler' with Ben Walden as 'Mr Charles Sratton', Faith Flint as 'Miss Jean Tanner / Mrs Jean Stratton', Kate O'Malley as 'Doreen' and Jennifer Thorne as 'Mabel'. Directed by Peter Hall with designs by Carl Toms and lighting by Alan Burrett. "If the first play in this double bill, set in a Bournemouth private hotel, traditionally works less well, it is because Terrance Rattigan strives for an optimism the situation doesn't justify. having expertly diagnosed the disease of mismatched passion, Terrance Rattigan provides too instant a cure. It is the second play, Table Number Seven , that is a minor classic. What makes this a landmark fifties' play is Rattigan's demonstration that human pride can triumph over common prejudice. When the hotel bigot, Mrs Railton-Bell - played with just the right chintzy outrage by Rosemary Leach - is routed, one can scarce forbear to cheer; and there is a marvellous moment in Peter Hall's production when the major, newly restored to his regular table, flips open his napkin with a defiant panache. Both Peter Bowles, all blazered, cavalry-twilled insecurity, and Patricia Hodge, exuding fear of life as the hotel-dragon's mousy daughter, rise to the occasion. And among the permanent residents there is sprightly work from Ernest Clark as a discarded Mr Chips and from Miriam Karlin as a brisk and downright devotee of the turf. But the virtue of Hall's production lies in its reminder that behind Rattigan the prose-craftsman lurked a writer of tolerance and wisdom with a poetic flair for depicting our essential solitude." The Guardian. " Separate Tables consists of two short plays, each set in the same genteel Bournemouth hotel, each peopled with many of the same characters. The supporting cast play with skill and wit enough to conceal the relative thinness of their roles. Nor are the starring parts a lot thicker in the first of the plays, Table By The Window . Peter Bowles, growling and boozily weaving about the stage, and Patricia Hodge, gravely melancholic in her elegant black dress, work hard to suggest that these are sad, self-destructive people who find it impossible to live either with or without each other; but they never quite shake the plot free of an unreality verging at its hairier moments on melodrama. Table Number Seven is another matter. Bowles abandons his rumpled tweed for a natty blazer and his rough, man-of-the-people manner for parody blimpishness, and Hodge makes an even more impressive switch, successfully dwindling into Mrs Railton-Bell's wan, oppressed daughter. He is a phoney major who has been convicted of fumbling at women in a cinema, and she is the chronic neurotic who defies her prurient, vindictive mother by remaining his friend. In extremis, both performers achieve a dignity that could seem forced or sentimental, but in fact has been prepared for by the unassuming inwardness of their acting." The Times. "The two leading actors are given different roles in each play. Expertly showing the panic under the Major's brash, pukka disguise, Peter Bowles is first seen cutting an impressively haunted figure as the shambling, heavy-drinking, left-wing journalist. In this earlier work, Patricia Hodge is the epitome of elegant despair, but her beauty is a touch too unflawed to make the model's distress over ageing look very plausible. Only the cheekbones give her away, though, in her startling metamorphosis as a violently plain, cowed hysteric in the later play. The wall at the back of Carl Toms's revolving lounge and dining-room set is emblazoned with a huge fading Union Jack design, which will certainly help those who may otherwise have thought we were in Baghdad rather than Bournemouth. A touch heavy-handedly, this patriotic pattern and the intermittent strains of 'Jerusalem' are there to remind us of the post- imperial twilight in which Hall's excellent cast are coming to terms with their loneliness. " The Independent. Separate Tables in London at the Albery Theatre (now Noel Coward Theatre) previewed from 23 June 1993, opened on 5 July 1993 and closed on 30 October 1993. Separate Tables. C onventional wisdom says Terence Rattigan was a victim of the repressiveness of the 1950s. My view is that this master of oblique understatement wrote best within formal restrictions. The point is confirmed by this production of Rattigan's famous 1954 double-bill using the dramatist's more explicit, later text without noticeable gain. Both plays are set in a Bournemouth private hotel filled with genteel sadness; and, in the second play, Table Number Seven, we witness the exposure of a bogus major. In the original his offence was interfering with women, whereas here it is male importuning. But Rattigan's discreet metaphor was more powerful than his subsequent candour; and it is significant a modern audience tends to laugh at such almighty pother about a relatively minor sexual offence. I suspect audiences in the 50s knew what Rattigan was on about. His indirect approach was also consistent with his talent for subtext. There's a marvellous moment in Sarah Frankcom's revival when Alexandra Mathie as the hotel proprietress admits to a hopeless love with a forced cheerfulness that reveals a fractured heart. And there is something uplifting about the climax when the hotel residents rebel against the odious Mrs Railton-Bell's planned expulsion of the fake major: it remains a victory for decency and tolerance and is here movingly confirmed by the shy, complicit smiles exchanged between Nigel Cooke as the persecuted survivor and Clare Holman as his mousy ally. Cooke and Holman also appear to good effect in the first piece, Table By The Window, playing a leftwing journalist and his upper-class ex-wife who has tracked him down to darkest Bournemouth. What strikes one now is how uncannily the play anticipates Look Back In Anger in its combination of the sex and class war and its portrait of marriage as a violent battleground. Even if Rattigan lacked Osborne's incandescent prose, he created a rich gallery of minor characters, here excellently embodied by Janet Henfrey as the hotel's resident dragon, Ian Barritt as a Chekhovian schoolmaster and Ann Firbank as an impoverished widow. The evening reminds one just how much the British theatre lost by its sacrifice of Rattigan on the altar of the Royal Court revolution. TV: BATES AND JULIE CHRISTIE IN 'SEPARATE TABLES' FLOATING around the schedule of Home Box Office the last few weeks has been a very affecting production of Terence Rattigan's ''Separate Tables.'' It could have been seen on the pay cable channel at 1 A.M. today. It will next be shown Saturday afternoon at 3:30. It is very much worth chasing and catching. Terence Rattigan is the type of British playwright who went out of fashion with the arrival in the late 1950's of John Osborne and other angry young men. Rattigan's world was a fishtank of delicate sensibilities, elliptical references and understated resolutions. ''Separate Tables,'' really two one-act plays, was first produced in the mid-1950's, starring Margaret Leighton and Eric Porter in double roles. A film version gave the key roles to four actors: Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr and, in an Academy Awardwinning performance, David Niven. This time, in a production taped at a Bristol, England, studio, the roles revert to two actors, Alan Bates and Julie Christie, directed by John Schlesinger. All three had previously worked together in the film ''Far From the Madding Crowd.'' The producers of ''Separate Tables,'' Edie and Ely Landau, have also assembled an outstanding supporting cast, headed by Claire Bloom and Irene Worth, and including Liz Smith, Sylvia Barter and Bernard Archard. In the first play, ''Table by the Window,'' Anne Shankland (Miss Christie), a fading fashion model, arrives at a genteel seaside hotel in Bournemouth. The other guests are all atwitter over her elegant presence, none more so than the rumpled, alcoholic John Malcolm (Mr. Bates), a former Labor politician who also happens to be one of her former husbands. Mr. Malcolm is also having an affair with the incandescently serene Miss Cooper (Miss Bloom), manager of the hotel. In the second hour, ''Table Number Seven,'' the scene is the same, but the time is 18 months later. Miss Christie appears as Sybil, mousy daughter of the imperious Mrs. Railton-Bell (Miss Worth). Sybil has taken a liking to the impossibly pompous ''Major'' Pollack (Mr. Bates), who, as it is discovered in a local newspaper article, is a fraud caught in a minor sexual offense at a movie theater. Mama wants Pollack ostracized from polite society. Sides must be taken, and they finally are, with a subtle impact that is surprisingly moving. ''Separate Tables'' manages to seem slight while dealing perceptively with the more profound themes of life - growing old, unfulfilled promises, moral principles. And beneath the very civilized surfaces are unsettling truths. As Miss Cooper puts it, ''The word normal applied to any human creature is utterly meaningless.'' Miss Christie and Mr. Bates are superb - she, cold and drawn as the model, dowdy and trembling as the daughter; he, puffy and belligerent as the failed politician, blimpish and pathetic as the fraud. The others are virtually perfect. And Mr. Schlesinger's direction keeps a firm but unobtrusive grip on the play. Mr. Rattigan and his reputation have been served well. Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan. Terence Rattigan is one of Britain’s greatest playwrights. He was born on 10 June 1911 and educated at Harrow (Scholar) from 1925-1930 and Trinity College, Oxford (History Scholarship) to 1933. He served as a flight lieutenant in the Coastal Command, RAF from 1940-1945. By 1934 he had become a full-time playwright. His many successful plays include: French Without Tears , After the Dance , Flare Path , Love In Idleness , While the Sun Shines , The Winslow Boy , The Browning Version , Harlequinade , Adventure Story , Who is Sylvia? , The Deep Blue Sea , The Sleeping Prince, S eparate Tables , Variation on a Theme , Ross , Man and Boy , A Bequest to the Nation , In Praise of Love and Cause Célèbre . Terence Rattigan still holds the record of being the only playwright to have notched more than 1000 performances for two separate plays, namely, French Without Tears and While the Sun Shines . During the war years, he had 3 plays running on Shaftesbury Avenue: Flare Path at the Apollo, While the Sun Shines at the Globe, and Love in Idleness at the Lyric. He also wrote screenplays of French Without Tears , The Way to the Stars , Journey Together , While the Sun Shines , The Winslow Boy , The Browning Version , The Prince and the Showgirl , Separate Tables , The Sound Barrier , The Man Who Loved Redheads , The Deep Blue Sea , The Final Test , The VIPs , The Yellow Rolls Royce , Goodbye Mr Chips , Conduct Unbecoming , and A Bequest to the Nation – and collaborated on The Quiet Wedding , The Day Will Da wn, English Without Tears , Uncensored , Brighton Rock and Bond Street . His television plays include: Heart to Heart , All On Her Own and High Summer . After the Dance was shown in the performance series on BBC2 in 1993 and The Deep Blue Sea was recorded for the same series. In 1958 he was awarded a CBE, and in 1971 he became Knight Bachelor. Sir Terence Rattigan died in 1977. He left his estate to charity with all royalties from his plays being donated to Denville Hall, a home for retired actors founded in 1926. If you are seeking performing rights, please visit the Plays page where you will find details for each of the plays. Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan (1999, Trade Paperback) С самой низкой ценой, совершенно новый, неиспользованный, неоткрытый, неповрежденный товар в оригинальной упаковке (если товар поставляется в упаковке). Упаковка должна быть такой же, как упаковка этого товара в розничных магазинах, за исключением тех случаев, когда товар является изделием ручной работы или был упакован производителем в упаковку не для розничной продажи, например в коробку без маркировки или в пластиковый пакет. См. подробные сведения с дополнительным описанием товара.