THE DEEP BLUE SEA
Theatre Production
National Theatre (Lyttelton)
Year: 2016
Director : Carrie Cracknell
Writer : Terence Rattigan
Cast stars : Helen McCrory, Elsie Fallon and Nick Figgis
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A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952.
When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion.
Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.
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