Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Déjà vu

<strong>The Deep Blue Sea</strong><br /> <em>Vaudeville</em> <strong>The Birthday Party<br /> </strong><em>Lyric Hammersmith</em> <strong>Pygmalion</strong><br /> <em>Old Vic</em>

issue 24 May 2008

The Deep Blue Sea
Vaudeville

The Birthday Party

Lyric Hammersmith

Pygmalion
Old Vic

Osborne crushed Rattigan. Crudely stated, that’s what we’re told happened in 1956 when Osborne’s demotic new voice displaced Rattigan’s classier, cosier manner. Even now Rattigan’s reputation hasn’t fully recovered and The Deep Blue Sea, which premièred in 1952, is the first of his plays I’ve seen in the West End.

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