Event | The Deep Blue Sea | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Saint Jude's Hall, Brighton, SA | |||||||||||||
First Date | 24 April 2002 | |||||||||||||
Last Date | 4 May 2002 | |||||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | |||||||||||||
Status | Amateur | |||||||||||||
World Premiere | No | |||||||||||||
Description | Rattigan's exquisitely crafted piece is set in bleak 1950's London. A few years have passed since the end of World War II, but in England it is still a chill age of austerity and ration books, and a cold climate for love.
The Deep Blue Sea must be unique as the only play centring on a conflict of two men over a woman in which love, as a sentimental emotion, is hardly considered. At the three corners of the traditional triangle are Hester Collyer, the wife of a High Court judge; Freddie Page, a wartime pilot in the RAF; and the judge himself, Sir William Collyer. Sir William, a decent public man, has a wife in the way that he has a house and a collection of pictures and a motorcar. They are what is called 'happily married'; and though Hester is still in her thirties they have been married for seven years. Hester has lived this life without a hint of complaint, when, like a thunderclap, she is overcome by desire for Freddie. Hester has a consuming passion for Freddie, while Freddie, charming and jobless loves her in his fashion of convenience - inertia and boyish affection. Hester, lost in this hopeless relationship, feels caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. |
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Description Source | Website | |||||||||||||
Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | |||||||||||||
Secondary Genre |
Drama
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Text Nationality | England | |||||||||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 15545 | |||||||||||||
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