Overview
A woman and her lover, a man 20 years her junior, stand trial for the murder of her husband in this incendiary recreation of the infamous case of Alma Rattenbury and 18-year-old George Percy Stoner. The 1935 case, in which Rattenbury was accused of murdering her husband in their Bournemouth home, created an early tabloid sensation and cast sexual freedom in sharp relief against the the stifling morality of post-Victorian England. From the celebrated author of Separate Tables and The Browning Version, Cause Célèbre enjoyed a successful revival at London's Old Vic in 2011.