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Terence Rattigan: The rise, fall and rise again of a 20th-century great

Terence Rattigan; illustration by Andy Briggs and photo courtesy of the Terence Rattigan Charitable Trust
Terence Rattigan; illustration by Andy Briggs and photo courtesy of the Terence Rattigan Charitable Trust
Derided by critic Kenneth Tynan as representing everything wrong with theatre, the playwright fell out of fashion in the 1960s before a resurgence in popularity in recent decades. Amid new revivals of his work, Nick Smurthwaite looks at his enduring appeal, a new discovery and attempts to give him a fitting resting place

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