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Separate Tables

These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England's south coast. Except for the two leads in each (which may be doubled) the same characters appear in both.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1950s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Five Tony Awards including Best Play (1957)
These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England's south coast. Except for the two leads in each (which may be doubled) the same characters appear in both.

In Table by the Window, a down-at-the-heels journalist is confronted by his ex-wife, a former model who provoked him to the violent act that sent him to prison, destroying his future. Still in love, they nevertheless go through another terrible scene and it is the hotel manager, Miss Cooper, who helps repair their broken lives.

In Table Number Seven, a 'self-made' army colonel without any true background and education to which he lays claim, finds solace with a spinster over the objections of her ruthless, domineering mother. When a sordid scandal threatens to drive them apart, Miss Cooper again comes to the rescue.
REVIEWS:

"Rattigan is the theatrical patron saint of repressed feeling, wells of loneliness, situational chat and unspoken desire."

 The Guardian

"A triumph."

 New York Post

"To his skill as a craftsman, Mr. Rattigan has added understanding and forgiveness. The finest thing he's written."

 The New York Times

"Rattigan has created a rich gallery of minor characters."

 The Guardian

"Although Mr. Rattigan's literary style is light, his awareness of the dreary lives of his minor characters is poignant."

 The New York Times

"Table Number Seven is a masterpiece in miniature."

 The New York Times

"Certainly this is the most penetrating inquiry into the human spirit that Mr. Rattigan has yet written."

 The New York Times

Premiere Production: After an out-of-town tryout in Manchester, Separate Tables premiered at the St James's Theatre in London in 1954. It had its New York premiere at The Music Box in 1956.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 8F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Ensemble cast, Flexible casting, Room for Extras, Parts for Senior Actors, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)

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These two plays are set in a shabby genteel hotel on England's south coast. Except for the two leads in each (which may be doubled) the same characters appear in both.

In Table by the Window, a down-at-the-heels journalist is confronted by his ex-wife, a former model who provoked him to the violent act that sent him to prison, destroying his future. Still in love, they nevertheless go through another terrible scene and it is the hotel manager, Miss Cooper, who helps repair their broken lives.

In Table Number Seven, a 'self-made' army colonel without any true background and education to which he lays claim, finds solace with a spinster over the objections of her ruthless, domineering mother. When a sordid scandal threatens to drive them apart, Miss Cooper again comes to the rescue.

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