Flare Path

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Flare Path

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  4w, 7m

Terence Rattigan

Flare Path
by Terence Rattigan

Rattigan's famous play concerns Patricia's love for a film actor, despite her marriage to Flight-Lieutenant Teddy Graham. Going to the hotel to break with Teddy, followed by Peter, Pat encounters Doris, married to a Polish Count, who is one of two pilots not to return from a bombing raid.

Image: 2011 West End Production (Tristram Kenton)

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    4w, 7m
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  • Nominee: 2012 Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Play

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Filmed as The Way to the Stars and set in the 1940s, Rattigan's famous play concerns Patricia's love for a film actor, despite her marriage to Flight-Lieutenant Teddy Graham. Going to the hotel to break with Teddy, followed by Peter, Pat encounters Doris, married to a Polish Count, who is one of two pilots not to return from a bombing raid. Hearing the Count's last letter, Pat realizes how much Teddy needs her, and gives Peter his dismissal.
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  • Time Period 1940s/WWII
  • Setting An hotel lounge
  • Features Period Costumes

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    Image: 2011 West End Production (Tristram Kenton)

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Terence Rattigan

Terence Rattigan

Born in London on the 10th June 1911, Terence Rattigan (1911–1977) was educated at Harrow (Scholar) from 1925 to 1930 and Trinity College, Oxford (History Scholarship) BA to 1933. He served as a flight Lieutenant in the Central Command, RAF from 1940 to 1945. In 1934 he had b ...

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