{"product_id":"9781854594235-the-deep-blue-sea","title":"The Deep Blue Sea","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, \u003cem\u003eThe Deep Blue Sea\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, \u003cem\u003eThe Deep Blue Sea\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe play opens with the failed suicide of Hester Collyer (Peggy Ashcroft in the first production), who has deserted her husband for the raffish charms of an ex-fighter pilot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTerence Rattigan's \u003cem\u003eThe Deep Blue Sea\u003c\/em\u003e was first performed at the Duchess Theatre in the West End in March 1952.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes an authoritative introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eMichael Billington\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449837760886,"sku":"9781854594235","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28142807.jpg?v=1760446768","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781854594235-the-deep-blue-sea","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}