Legacy of a Playwright: Terence Rattigan

“A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.”

So said Terence Rattigan, one of Britain’s greatest dramatists. His many plays include French Without Tears, The Winslow Boy, The Deep Blue Sea and A Tale of Two Cities, which he adapted for stage with John Gielgud. Ahead of the Marlowe Theatre’s upcoming production of A Tale of Two Cities, Sean O’Connor – a producer, writer and director working across film, television and radio, and a trustee of The Sir Terence Rattigan Charitable Trust – joins Marlowe Theatre Chief Executive Deborah Shaw to discuss Terence Rattigan’s place among the greats of British theatre, and what writers can learn from him today.