Separate Tables
From Monday 24th January 2000
To Saturday 29th January 2000
Terence Rattigan
A small private hotel in Bournemouth is the refuge for four crushed individuals
on the run from life. John and Ann destroyed each other in marriage, but
will they find a way to save one another after the passage of years?
Major Pollock has a dark secret. Sybil Railton-Bell is a dowdy misfit.
Do they have a future together?
Two stories about salvation from the master of the well made play.
Entertaining and moving.
Director's Notes
Terence Rattigan, often described as the writer of "the well made
play", has given us two for the price of one with "Separate Tables". The
two plays, with linking characters and settings, were first performed in
September, 1954, at the now demolished St. James Theatre, London, with
Margaret Leighton playing the parts of Mrs. Shankland and Sybil Railton-Bell,
and Eric Portman playing Mr Malcolm and Major Pollock.
You will note that in our production we have split the two female parts
due to the eternal problem in the theatre of a surfeit of female performers
and a deficit of male performers. We hope that this will not cause undue
confusion for our audience.