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Theatre Royal Bath Productions presents IN PRAISE OF LOVE by Terence Rattigan

▪ FULL CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR TERENCE RATTIGAN’S IN PRAISE OF LOVE WITH CHRISTOPHER BONWELL AND JULIAN WADHAM JOINING ROBERT LINDSAY AND TARA FITZGERALD

▪ JONATHAN CHURCH MAKES HIS USTINOV STUDIO DIRECTORIAL DEBUT IN THE FINAL PRODUCTION OF THEATRE ROYAL BATH’S 2018 SUMMER SEASON

▪ RUNNING FROM 3 OCTOBER TO 3 NOVEMBER, WITH OPENING NIGHT ON 15 OCTOBER

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Theatre Royal Bath Productions today announces full casting for In Praise of Love at the Ustinov Studio with Christopher Bonwell and Julian Wadham joining the previously announced Robert Lindsay and Tara Fitzgerald. Jonathan Church will direct Terence Rattigan’s powerful drama at the Ustinov Studio marking his first production at the venue as well as the closing play in his second year as Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Bath’s Summer Season. In Praise of Love will run from Wednesday 3 October to Saturday 3 November with opening night for press on Monday 15 October.

In Praise of Love is a perceptive and compelling drama about the concealed truths and veiled emotions in a marriage.

Sebastian and Lydia Crutwell live in a small flat in Islington. Sebastian, once a promising novelist, is now a cantankerous critic. Lydia, an Estonian refugee, has recently discovered she is seriously ill, news that she confides to a family friend, Mark, but not to Sebastian. Over the course of two evenings, a series of heart-breaking revelations changes the facade of Lydia and Sebastian’s relationship forever.

Terence’s Rattigan’s prominent career as a playwright includes plays such as The Winslow Boy, A Bequest to the Nation, Man and Boy, French Without Tears and The Deep Blue Sea. Screenwriting credits include English Without Tears, Bond Street, The Sound Barrier, The V.I.P.s, and The Yellow Rolls-Royce.

Christopher Bonwell (Joey) has appeared on stage in Relatively Speaking, Bad Jews and She Stoops to Conquer at Theatre Royal Bath, and in the film Siffre. He has also voiced videogames Divinity II Original Sin and SpellForce 3, as well as providing voiceovers for the Discovery Channel.

Tara Fitzgerald’s (Lydia) theatre credits include And Then There Were None (Gielgud Theatre), A Doll's House (Donmar Warehouse), The Misanthrope (Comedy Theatre), Broken Glass (Vaudeville Theatre) and The Winter's Tale (Globe Theatre London and UK tour). She also boasts numerous credits across television and film. Television credits include Waking the Dead, The Body Farm, Game of Thrones, In the Club, The Musketeers and Death in Paradise. Film credits feature A Man of No Importance, Brassed Off, Dark Blue World, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Una and Legend.

Robert Lindsay (Sebastian) is a multi-award winning actor with theatre credits including Me and My Girl (Broadway, West End) for which he won a Tony and Olivier Award, plus Olivier Award-winning performances in Becket and as Fagin in Cameron MackIntosh’s Oliver! Robert also won a BAFTA for Alan Bleasdale’s G.B.H. Additionally he has numerous film and theatre credits including Citizenship, Hornblower and My Family for television and Grace of Monaco and Wimbledon for film.

Julian Wadham (Mark) has appeared in the television series Outlander, Silk, Lewis and Tokyo Trial. His film credits also include The Happy Prince, Victoria and Abdul, Churchill, Iron Lady and Warhorse. Julian has also performed on stage in Another Country (Trafalgar Studios), This House (National Theatre) and The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket).

The 2018 Summer Season at Theatre Royal Bath opened in June with Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory’s Henry V followed by An Ideal Husband direct from the West End, the UK premiere of Switzerland, the 50th anniversary production of Arthur Miller’s The Price and the 10th anniversary production of Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage.

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In Praise of Love By Terence Rattigan Directed by Jonathan Church Location: Ustinov Studio Dates: Wednesday 3 October – Saturday 3 November Press Night: Monday 15 October, 7pm Performance Schedule: Mon – Sat 7.45pm, Matinees Wed & Sat 2.30pm (No matinee 3 Oct) Prices: £38.50 / £33.50 discounts In Praise of Love and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more. Books. "Elegant and deeply human, In Praise of Love is a conversational but erudite retort to the antiseptic promises of online dating sites for 'safe love' without risk, the romantic notion that love is the ecstatic melding of two into one, and the philosophical skepticism that love is little more than a cover story for sexual lust." ―Pamela Haag, Ph.D., author of Marriage Confidential: Love in the Post-Romantic Age, columnist at Big Think magazine. Praise for Alain Badiou: "A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!" ―Slavoj Zizek. "An heir to Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser." Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple’s family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history. ×. "In Praise of Love" plays like an attempt to reconstruct an ideal film that might once have existed in his mind, but is there no more. Yes, I praised the film in an article from the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, but have now seen it again, and no longer agree with those words. Seeing Godard's usual trademarks and preoccupations, I called it "a bittersweet summation of one of the key careers in modern cinema," and so it is, but I no longer think it is a successful one. Advertisement. Godard was the colossus of the French New Wave. IN PRAISE of LOVE. ALAIN BADIOU. with Nicolas Truong Translated by Peter Bush. A complete catalogue record for this book can be obtained from the British Library on request. The right of Alain Badiou and Nicolas Truong to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the. Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1 9 8 8. Copyright © 2 0 0 9 Flammarion SA, Paris Translation copyright © 2 0 1 2 Peter Bush. Nicolas asked the questions, and I performed the ambiguous role of a philosopher of love, we worked well together and it was a success. No doubt about it: it was a hit. The text you are about to read is an elabora ​ tion of what we said on the day. It retains the spontaneous rhythm, clarity and energy but is more rounded and incisive. In Praise of Love (French: Éloge de l'amour) is a 2001 French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The black-and-white and color drama was shot by Julien Hirsch and Christophe Pollock. Godard has famously stated that "a film should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order." This aphorism is illustrated by In Praise of Love (Éloge de l'amour), which reverses the order of past and present.