10.6.07

ΣΑΝ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ. ΤΕΡΕΝΣ ΡΑΤΙΓΚΑΝ

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Terence Rattigan (10/6/1911 - 30/11/1977)
Θεατρικός Συγγραφέας, Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο

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Terence Rattigan
Terence Rattingan was one of England`s most important 20th century dramatists. Rattigan`s carefully structured dramas, with their deeply rooted emotional layers became very unfashionable with the arrival in 1956 of the "kitchen sink" dramas of the angry young men, such as John Osborne, who re-invented and re-energised the stage with a new explicitness and emotional intensity. Rattigan initally reacted by giving churlish, dismissive interviews and became perceived as conservative, out of touch and ill-tempered. This perception was unfair, and some of his later work, influenced by this new openness, is amongst his best.
He is however, best known for his earlier string of landmark comedies and dramas, particularly The Winslow Boy (1946) but also The Browning Version (1948), The Deep Blue Sea (1952) and Separate Tables (1954).
He was homosexual, with a string of lovers but no long-term partners. It has been said that most of his work is autobiographical, containing many coded references to his sexuality and the issues it raised in a society in which he was forced to keep this part of himself secret from all but the closest friends.
In the 1960s, he suffered two bouts of leukemia, moved to Bermuda - apparently he disliked Swinging 60s London - and was highly successful if unremarkable as a screenwriter. He was knighted and returned to England in the 70s and began to enjoy a critical reappraisal of his work. He died from bone cancer in 1977, aged 66.Since his death, his work has been often revived and his reputation as one of our greatest playwrights has been properly established.
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H επιστροφή του Τέρενς Ράτιγκαν
Ο άγγλος θεατρικός συγγραφέας Τέρενς Ράτιγκαν (1911-77) υπήρξε εξαιρετικά δημοφιλής στην εποχή του, και όχι μόνο στην πατρίδα του. (H επιτυχία των Λαμπέτη - Παππά - Χορν με τη Βαθιά γαλάζια θάλασσα στο πρώτο μισό της δεκαετίας του 1950 υπήρξε ο πιο αξιομνημόνευτος σταθμός της πορείας του στη χώρα μας, όπου έχουν παιχτεί και άλλα έργα του όπως η Υπόθεση Γουίνσλοου και τα Χωριστά τραπέζια.) Αριστος τεχνίτης της ελαφράς θεατρογραφίας αρχικά, ο Ράτιγκαν αργότερα προχώρησε με αρκετή επιτυχία σε βαθύτερες αναζητήσεις. Μετά τον θάνατό του οι θεατρικές σκηνές στρέφονταν όλο και πιο αραιά στα έργα του. Τον τελευταίο καιρό το ενδιαφέρον για τον Ράτιγκαν δείχνει να αναζωπυρώνεται. Έργα του όπως το Ανδρας και αγόρι και η Εκδοχή του Μπράουνινγκ ανεβαίνουν στα θέατρα του Λονδίνου, ενώ στο videoclub σας μπορείτε να βρείτε το The Winslow boy (Η τιμή των Γουίνσλοου), κινηματογραφική μεταφορά του έργου του Ράτιγκαν από τον Ντέιβιντ Μάμετ.

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