RATTIGAN, TERENCE
First performed in 1954, when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, Seperate Tables consists of two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel near Bournemouth. In one a lonely divorcee tracks down her former husband in order to resume a kind of half-life with him. In the other a repressed young spinster offers brave moral support to a fake major accused of importuning women in a local cinema. In an alternative version, only recently discovered among Rattigan's papers, the major's offence was revealed to be homosexual; these alternative scenes are published in this edition for the first time.
