05-05-2025
Give Terence Rattigan his own West End theatre, stage stars say
The vilification of one of Britain's greatest 20th-century playwrights, who fell out of fashion following the rise of the 'angry young men', needs to be redressed by naming a West End playhouse after him, acting luminaries have said.
A Sir Terence Rattigan theatre would give the playwright the recognition he deserves for his influential works and go some way to correcting the wrongs inflicted on him, they said.
David Suchet, who starred in Rattigan's Man and Boy 20 years ago, said the writer, who died in 1977 aged 66, had been 'hugely influential on British theatre', adding that he had been upset at learning of his mistreatment.
Rattigan's earlier plays including 1942's Flare Path, The Winslow Boy in 1946 and The Deep Blue Sea
