The Little Mermaid Broadway, Musical Closing Date: Aug. 30, 2009 Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 205 W 46th St. 877-250-2929. Like most good plays “The Deep Blue Sea” is about many things. Danny and Roberta ultimately find they can envision a future together that neither of them … In his biography, Michael Darlow cites the TV producer Alvin Rakoff and the actor Bryan Forbes claiming to have seen a ‘gay’ version of the play.[3]. Rattigan’s buoyant mood was shattered by a phone message that said Kenneth Morgan had killed himself. Hester Collyer is one of the great roles of British theatre. More significant is the development of the other residents in Hester and Freddie’s apartment block. Terence Rattigan concealed his homosexuality in public and was regarded by the press as a highly eligible bachelor. 1953 Publication of first two volumes of Rattigan’s Collected Plays: Aunt Edna, Rattigan’s While his own homosexuality no doubt gave Rattigan an intense understanding of the bitterness of unrequited and unfulfilled desires, it is quite wrong to treat this as ‘really’ about gay men. Mr Miller is the character who goes through the most substantial changes. Usage terms John Barber: © Express Newspapers / N&S Syndication. By Ben Brantley. [7] Terence Rattigan, The Deep Blue Sea, 2nd edn (London: Nick Hern, 2016), p. 61. An Analysis of Deep Blue Sea. [13] Rattigan Papers. The first run, with a deeply felt performance by Peggy Ashcroft as Hester, ran for a year, but then the play fell into obscurity. By Graham Fuller in the March-April 2012 Issue. Dan Rebellato is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. Deep Blue Sea. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Deep Blue Sea. By March 1952, when the play opened at the Duchess Theatre, the source material is left far behind in a mature, rich and devastating play about learning to live without love. With my mind – with this clear mind of mine – I can agree with you and all the other that all I’m suffering from is just infatuation – or – sex obsession or – well, all right – lust.[6]. Greg Buzwell explores how anger produced new kinds of literature in the 1950s, from the Movement poetry of Philip Larkin and Thom Gunn to the fiction of Kingsley Amis and the plays of the so-called Angry Young Men. The agony and perverse ecstasy of unrequited love permeate Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea.Adapted by the director from Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play and set in a dank, depressed London still recovering from the Blitz, it tells the story of Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), a 40ish beauty dashed on the rocks of masochistic passion. cclxviii. Vol. The opening scene starts of with four people on a boat, there is. The Deep Blue Sea is a British stage play by Terence Rattigan from 1952. [5] Rattigan guarded his privacy carefully and was terrified by any hint of scandal, so it is implausible to think that he would invite scrutiny by writing an explicitly gay play; and finally, until 1958 the Lord Chamberlain banned any representation of homosexuals on stage, so the play could only have been performed in a private club theatre: Rattigan was far too concerned with West End success to contemplate such a thing. The play begins with Hester’s failed suicide attempt, and we follow as she tries in vain to revive his feelings. In this version Rattigan is in the process of improving the last act of the play which was criticised for being over-written and too long. Jaws. His book 1956 and All That  is a radical rethinking of the revolution in British Theatre around Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in the mid-1950s and he edits Terence Rattigan's selected plays for Nick Hern Books. What this does is give Rattigan a chance to expand his portrait of contemporary relationships, offering the marriage of the Welches as a parallel and variation on the doomed affair between Hester and Freddie. The play was first performed in London on 6 March 1952, directed by Frith We come to know during the play that Miller is a doctor who has been struck off following a prison sentence, though his crime is unspecified. The Deep Blue Sea is an extraordinary play. Dan Rebellato recounts the inspiration for and early reception of The Deep Blue Sea, and compares successive drafts of the script to see how Terence Rattigan created a play at once restrained and emotionally intense. The action of the play is propelled by the movement of a few simple props (for example, her suicide note, which moves from the mantelpiece, to her neighbours, to Hester, to her dressing gown and then, disastrously, into Freddie’s hands). Houghton Library does not collect usage fees of any kind to license the work of Angus McBean. Since then, it has been frequently and successfully revived, most recently at the National Theatre, with Helen McCrory as Hester. Also sign me up for FanMail to get updates on all things movies: tickets, special offers, screenings + more. Kenneth Tynan: © Tynan Literary, LLC. It is an adaptation of the 1952 Terence Rattigan play The Deep Blue Sea about the wife of a judge who engages in an affair with a former RAF pilot. These photographs come from Terence Rattigan's own photograph album. Set 'around 1950', The Deep Blue Sea tells the story of Hester Collyer, the younger wife of High Court judge Sir William Collyer, who has embarked on a passionate affair with Freddie Page, a handsome young former RAF pilot troubled by his memories of the war; that the mix of fear and excitement once in his life is missing. In recent years Harriet Walter and Greta Scacchi have played Hester, with Helen McCrory playing the role in the National Theatre’s major 2016 revival, directed by Carrie Cracknell. In fact, Hester Collyer is one of the finest leading theatre roles for a woman in the 20th century, a portrait created with complexity and sympathy. The Deep Blue Sea is a 2011 British romantic drama film directed by Terence Davies and starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, and Simon Russell Beale. Rattigan based his story and characters in part on his secret relationship with Kenny Morgan, and the aftermath following the end of their relationship. Please credit the copyright holder when reusing this work. [1] For the story of Kenneth Morgan see Michael Darlow, Terence Rattigan: The Man and His Work, 2nd edn (London: Quartet, 2010) and Geoffrey Wansell, Terence Rattigan: A Biography (London: Fourth Estate, 1995). [8] In the next draft, Mrs Elton only says that the affair was in the papers, and adds ‘Some people are born different to others, and it’s no good pretending that that makes them wicked’. www.alanbrodie.com abr@alanbrodie.com Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea opened at the Duchess Theatre, London, in March 1952. [11]The moment is highly theatrical, though its tinge of sensational melodrama is at odds with the subtlety of the scene’s emotions. Rattigan later described the play as ‘the hardest of my plays to write’. Danny, 29, the male lead in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John READ MORE - PRO MEMBERS ONLY Join the StageAgent community to read our character analysis for Danny and unlock other amazing theatre resources! The Deep Blue Sea ( 2011) The Deep Blue Sea. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea tells the story of two strangers (Danny and Roberta) who, after a hesitant, defensive initial meeting in a Bronx bar, bob and weave in a three-scene long “apache dance” (a violent dance for two people, according to Shanley’s stage directions) towards forgiveness and ownership over their lives. Usage terms © the Sir Terence Rattigan Charitable Trust [6] Terence Rattigan, 'The Deep Blue Sea' typescript, September 1951, Lord Chamberlain’s Plays 1952/6, British Library, Act 3, p. 17. Photograph: Richard Hubert Smith. Greg Buzwell charts the impact of the Wolfenden Report and Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey on the Lord Chamberlain’s strict censorship policy. Further, it is to deprecate Rattigan’s skill and integrity as a playwright to think that he is only able to imagine a woman as a secret gay man. Lord Chamberlain's Office: © Crown Copyright. Instead, she plants a gunpowder trail. 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"Deep Blue Sea'' resembles a shark. It opens with an unconscious Hester being discovered on the floor of the Ladbroke Grove flat that she shares with her younger lover, having attempted to end her life. One of the best examples of Rattigan’s exquisite stagecraft is in the evolving theatricality of Act 3. She’s recently left her husband Sir William Collyer, a High Court judge, for Freddie, a charismatic but emotionally remote former pilot, a man numbed by his wartime experiences and unable to adjust to life in peacetime. Your views could help shape our site for the future. Early in the third act Rattigan brings the three women of the play – Hester, Ann and the landlady Mrs Elton – together on stage in a powerful moment that emphasises their shared experiences of dissatisfaction and emotional isolation: ‘I know it’s awfully silly of me’, admits Ann, ‘but I’m not very good at being left alone’. 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Terence Rattigan conceived the idea for The Deep Blue Sea after hearing of Kenneth Morgan’s suicide. The speech puts everything on the surface, awkwardly making Hester speak like a therapist, and so during rehearsal the speech was wisely cut after ‘involved’. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. In early March 1949, Terence Rattigan and the director Peter Glenville were leaving the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, when Terry announced, seemingly out of nowhere: ‘The play will open with the body discovered dead in front of the gas fire’. In the earliest draft Hester has a final confrontation with Freddie at which point there is a blackout in the apartment. The painful realism of the play is encased in strangeness. However, it is only in the final moments of the play – as Hester lights the gas fire – that the audience see that she has resolved to live. Plot & Themes Composition of Book Actual chase scenes or violence 38.3% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 40% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 21.7% Time/Era of Movie: - 1980's-1999 - present 2000+ Water adventure? Fish Out of Water in the Deep Blue Sea. This is the earliest surviving draft of The Deep Blue Sea which Terence Rattigan submitted to theatre producer Hugh ‘Binkie’ Beaumont in December 1950. Choose Yes please to open the survey in a new browser window or tab, and then complete it when you are ready. Hester Collyer is one of the great roles of British theatre. Published: 7 Sep 2017. It was in part inspired by Rattigan’s own relationship with Kenneth Morgan at a time when homosexuality was still illegal, but The Deep Blue Sea is not a straightforward transposition or an act of pure autobiography. Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd, Paddock Suite, The Courtyard, 55 Charterhouse Street, London EC1M 6HA Please contact copyright@bl.uk with any information you have regarding this item. Please credit the copyright holder when reusing this work. It opens with an unconscious Hester being discovered on the floor of the Ladbroke Grove flat that she shares with … It is a sign both of Rattigan’s sharp writerly instincts and his emotional steeliness that within hours of this devastating news, he was already thinking how the situation might be turned into a play. The annotations show that Rattigan allowed further changes during rehearsals. But Freddie’s affections are fading fast. The characters’ movements in and out of the play feel natural and unforced, while the dynamics of the central relationship – Freddie’s discomfort with Hester’s feelings and her anxiety to please him – means that emotions are inferred not displayed, until moments like the end of Act 2 when they burst, devastatingly, into the open. [10] The explicit exposition feels awkward, and it is unsurprising that in the final version he has returned to ambiguity and subtlety. By the end of the 1950s, playwrights had gained new freedoms to represent homosexual characters and themes on the British stage. Usage terms © Richard Hubert Smith. Press cuttings, etc., relating to 'The Deep Blue Sea' (stage and film versions), 1952–1955. Critics loved it, calling it “deeply intimate and frightening,” “pithy,” and “dark and dirty.” He is also a playwright whose work has been seen across the world. Actors: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Deep Blue Sea In The Deep Blue Sea we follow the story of Hester (occasionally referred to as Lady Collyer) who is married to a wealthy judge, Sir William Collyer, but loves another man, Freddie Page, a … Fandango FANALERT® Sign up for a FANALERT® to find out when tickets are available in your area. Usage terms Angus McBean: Angus McBean Photograph © Houghton Library, Harvard University. ‘Are things what they seem?’ was the headline of the review of Rattigan’s Variation on a Theme by the Sunday Times’s distinguished critic Harold Hobson. Adetomiwa Edun and Tom Burke in The Deep Blue Sea. Rattigan was a playwright of great empathy, and The Deep Blue Sea is an incredibly rich piece of dramatic writing. Long before John Patrick Shanley won a Pulitzer Prize for Doubt in 2005, and long before he was a Drama Desk, Golden Globe, Obie, and Tony award winner, his second play, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, opened off Broadway. She is a character filled to the brim with longing; brittle, proud, strong-willed; highly sexual and emotionally complicated. His film is based on a play by Terence Rattigan, a playwright born 100 years ago this year, which tells the story of Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), an attractive but inward young woman who is married to Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale), a judge much her senior. Synopsis. The Deep Blue Sea (1952) overview. The play portrays a woman trapped in a relationship with a man incapable of loving her. Indeed, it is a good illustration of Rattigan’s distaste for the moralistic tone of British culture in the early 1950s that Philip’s horrifyingly pompous statements about the value of overcoming sexual desire are so crisply and devastatingly undermined by Hester. Terence Rattigan's play The Deep Blue Sea is a portrait of a woman caught between forbidden love and the fear of loneliness, or the devil and the deep Hester Collyer has left a highly respectable marriage with a high court judge for a tempestuously sexual relationship with a younger airman, Freddie Page. It is two full drafts later that he is given a wife, Ann Welch, and he – rather than Jackie – returns for the bag. But the new boyfriend could not return his affections fully either, and, in despair, alone at home, Morgan undid the rubber hose on their stove and gassed himself.[1]. Your views could help shape our site for the future. Margaret Sullavan played the role of Hester in its US production, which subsequently transferred to Broadway. Popular music is used throughout The Deep Blue Sea to express the camaraderie and determination to maintain good spirits by the people of London during the war and re-build years, although in another scene Hester looks awkward as she struggles to join in with the sing-a-long. In the first draft, Miller refers to ‘my own psychopathic ailment’. When Rattigan fell from favour in the theatrical revolutions marked by the premiere of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in 1956, there was a distinctly homophobic element to his dismissal. suspense. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing The Deep Blue Sea near you. [5] Charles Duff, The Lost Summer: The Heyday of the West End Theatre (London: Heinemann & Nick Hern, 1995), p. 128. I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and I'll be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line. The movie is a skillful thriller directed by Renny Harlin , who made "Die Hard 2'' and "Cutthroat Island,'' and here assembles a neat package of terror, sharks and special effects. Kenneth Tynan thought that Rattigan should have ended the play with Hester’s suicide[12] (a rather conventional 19th-century ending that Rattigan specifically wanted to avoid), and The Observer’s critic Ivor Brown declared ‘Perhaps she just needs a good slap or a straight talk by a Marriage Guidance Expert’.[13]. Please consider the environment before printing, All text is © British Library and is available under Creative Commons Attribution Licence except where otherwise stated. Rattigan often used early drafts to get the emotion and ideas onto paper and would edit and rework so that they became implicit, the emotions to be felt and the ideas to be inferred by the audience. She loves him in ways he cannot love her, can never love her; she sees this and it eats at her. [2] Quoted in programme note by Christopher Robinson for the 1988 revival of The Deep Blue Sea at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. [9] One might well think that Miller’s was a homosexual offence, though for at least one draft Rattigan tries out Miller’s crime being seducing a (female) patient and selling her morphine. Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd, Paddock Suite, The Courtyard, 55 Charterhouse Street, London EC1M 6HA By the final version, the blackout idea is beautifully minimalised: when Hester decides for the second time that she wants to kill herself, she places a rug by the front door to stop the gas escaping, cutting off the light from her room and alerting Mr Miller to her intentions. The thought of a secretly gay version of the play is tantalising but, surely, false. This scrapbook of press cuttings from Terence Rattigan’s archive reveals the praise he received for The Deep Blue Sea, tempered by criticism from some critics who failed to grasp the play’s complexity. It has taken perhaps half a century to appreciate the complexity and subtlety of this powerful play, and watching it take gradual shape in the successive drafts held by the British Library is a remarkable lesson in the craft of mature, sophisticated, emotionally profound theatre writing. For a moment the stage is in darkness until Mrs Elton makes her way into the flat and finds Hester fainted on the floor. First performed in London in 1952, the original production starred Peggy Ashcroft as Hester and Kenneth More as Freddie. She reclaims herself’. The Deep Blue Sea is an intricate, subtle and exquisite looking chamber soap opera, set in post war London of 1950. The first extant manuscript and the last are similar for the first two acts and it is the final act that undergoes the most significant revision, but throughout there are continuous improvements that enrich and complicate the play. Except as otherwise permitted by your national copyright laws this material may not be copied or distributed further. The film is about killer sharks and is in the same genre as. [11] Terence Rattigan, 'The Deep Blue Sea' typescript, 22 December 1950, Add MS 74351 B, Act 3, p. 30. Directed by Frith Banbury, it starred Peggy Ashcroft as Hester Collyer. The play transferred to Broadway later that year with Margaret Sullavan playing Hester. Dan Rebellato recounts the inspiration for and early reception of, The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr: sketches and original artwork, Sean's Red Bike by Petronella Breinburg, illustrated by Errol Lloyd, Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights, The fight for women’s rights is unfinished business, Get 3 for 2 on all British Library Fiction, Why you need to protect your intellectual property, ‘Your Godot was our Godot’: Beckett’s global journeys, Shelagh Delaney: The Start of the Possible. She is a character filled to the brim with longing; brittle, proud, strong-willed; highly sexual and emotionally complicated. He was a former boyfriend of Rattigan’s; they had recently separated after Morgan, frustrated by Terry’s emotional detachment, had started seeing someone else. [10] Terence Rattigan, 'The Deep Blue Sea' typescript, September 1951, British Library Add MS 74354, Act 3, p. 9. By this point Rattigan had moved way from his original idea of a play about a homosexual affair. Earlier that day both men had been discussing Rattigan’s Adventure Story, which Glenville had directed, and which was in Liverpool on its pre-West End tour. British Library Add MS 74555. However it becomes all the more poignant when you realise how it came to be written. This article questions why he had not yet found a wife. In 1952, The Deep Blue Sea received many positive reviews, though Rattigan’s unusually sympathetic and complex portrait of female sexual desire was met with incomprehension by some male critics. [2] Initially, he imagined it as a one-act play in continuous time (the final play’s single location and 24-hour timespan retains some of the intensity of that initial conception and gives it an undertone of classical tragedy). VanDamm Studio: © The New York Public Library. Immediately download the The Deep Blue Sea summary, chapter-by-chapter analysis, book notes, essays, quotes, character descriptions, lesson plans, and more - everything you need for studying or teaching The Deep Blue Sea. Finally, the Deep Blue Sea script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the Renny Harlin shark movie. Jan. 11, 2008; Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea unfolds over the course of a single day. In 2011 Terence Davies directed a film version of the play, starring Rachel Weisz with Simon Russell Beale as Sir William and Tom Hiddleston as Freddie. [8] Terence Rattigan, 'The Deep Blue Sea' typescript, 22 December 1950, British Library Add MS 74351 B, Act 3, pp. Please credit the copyright holder when reusing this work. We have been unable to locate the copyright holder in this material. The Deep Blue Sea is based on the ’50s stage play written by Terence Rattigan. Script Analysis of Deep Blue Sea; Click on a plot link to find similar books! 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