Difference between revisions of "Cause Célèbre"
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Revision as of 06:55, 21 May 2015
Cause Célèbre [1] is a 1977 play by Terence Rattigan. The play is based on the true and famous case of Alma Rattenbury, who in 1935 was charged, together with her teenage lover, with the murder of her husband who had been bludgeoned to death. First performed in London in 1977 just a few months before the dramatist’s death.
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Cause Célèbre or A Woman of Principle was originally a radio play, first broadcast on the BBC on 27 October 1975. Rattigan was then commissioned to rewrite it into a stage play ready to be produced in Autumn 1976, but his terminal cancer and casting problems meant he was only able to start work in January 1977, alongside Robin Midgely. This stage version premiered on 4 July 1977 at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. (Wikipedia)
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A 1987 television version of the stage play starred Helen Mirren as Alma.
Performance history in South Africa
Staged in Johannesburg by Pieter Toerien and Shirley Firth, directed by Joan Kemp-Welch, featuring
Sources
Pieter Toerien and Shirley Firth theatre programme (undated).
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