The Deep Blue Sea
By Terence Rattigan
About the Show
by Terence Rattigan, directed by Muriel Kidd Rattigan's exquisitely crafted piece is set in a bleak 1951 London. Six years have passed since the end of World War II, but in England it is still a chill age of austerity and ration books, and a cold climate for love. Hester Collyer is emotionally desperate having left her husband for a semi-alcoholic ex-RAF pilot whose ardour has cooled. She loves him but cannot live with him, unlike her husband whom she can live with but cannot love. An attempted suicide fails and she wrestles with her inner turmoil. The cast: Hester Collyer Claire Morris Mrs Elton Sandie Campbell Philip Welch James Mercer Ann Welch Nicola Bull Mr Miller Tony Skeggs William Collyer Paul Marshall Freddie Page Matthew Eades Jackie Jackson Richard Webb
