After the Dance
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 8, 2010
Closed Aug 11, 2010
Opened Jun 8, 2010
Closed Aug 11, 2010
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As the world races towards catastrophe, a crowd of Mayfair socialites party their way to oblivion. At its centre is David, who idles away his sober moments researching a futile book until the beautiful Helen decides to save him, shattering his marriage and learning too late the depth of both David's indolence and his wife's undeclared love. But with finances about to crash and humanity on the brink of global conflict, the drink keeps flowing and the revelers dance on.
First staged in 1939, After the Dance, now often thought to be Terence Rattigan's masterpiece, offers a subtle, witty unmasking of the hedonistic 20s generation and a devastating study of repression and the human heart
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Thea Sharrock's revival of Terence Rattigan's rarely-produced play After the Dance, now at the National Theatre, reveals it to be an insightful work, despite the fact that it had a short run originally and that Rattigan himself declined to include it in his collected works.
The play is a barbed portrait of a particular generation; those who were too young to have fought in the First World War and remained stubbornly blinkered to the war to come. Chief among them is David Scott-Fowler (Benedict Cumberbatch), a historian who has seemingly squandered his talent and intellect. He's supposedly working on a book on Italian history, but his life, and the life of his circle of friends, seems to in[...]