The Deep Blue Sea

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Event The Deep Blue Sea
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.
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Peter Davies Actor
Geoff Brittain Director
Terence Rattigan Playwright
Works
Text Nationality England
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web http://www.stjudesplayers.asn.au/newsletters/spotlightMar02.htm
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 15545