The Art of Concealment
T01649104707
He was one of the most acclaimed playwrights and screenwriters of his generation. His fall from critical favour marked a turning point in modern British theatre. He wore a carefully constructed mask of respectable, suave gentility in order to conceal his true nature, but who was the man behind the mask? Who was the real Terence Rattigan? Terence Rattigan, one of the most acclaimed playwrights and screenwriters of his generation This is a play not only about the demons that haunted one of our great playwrights, but about the creative process itself, and the process of ageing, of loss, of unhappiness in love, and of ultimate disillusionment - with the ironic twist that we know Rattigan to be more honoured now, at the centenary of his birth, than he would ever have expected in his lifetime.
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The Life of Terrence Rattigan
