Flare Path
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 4, 2011
Closed Jun 11, 2011
Opened Mar 4, 2011
Closed Jun 11, 2011
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It is 1942. At the Falcon Hotel, on the edge of an airfield in Lincolnshire, Teddy, a young bomber pilot is celebrating a reunion with his actress wife Patricia. Events take an unexpected turn, when Peter a famous heartthrob film star arrives, and an urgent bombing mission over Germany is ordered. As the night gives way to dawn, Patricia finds herself at the centre of a passionate conflict of love and loyalty as unpredictable as the war in the skies.
Flare Path was first performed in the West End at the Apollo Theatre in 1942. It is based on Rattigan's own Bomber Command experiences when he served as a tail gunner during the Second World War. He later reworked Flare Path into a screenplay and in 1945 the re-titled The Way to the Stars starring Michael Redgrave was successfully released.
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The centenary celebrations of Terence Rattigan's birth continue with Trevor Nunn's polished if slightly plodding staging of his rarely-done 1942 play,
Flare Path, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. While Nunn's production is nowhere near as revelatory as Thea Sharrock's dazzling staging of After the Dance at the National Theatre last year, it is a solid piece that successfully tugs on the heartstrings, thanks in part to a strong cast led by Sienna Miller and Sheridan Smith.
The play is set over the course of a long, emotionally turbulent night at a Lincolnshire hotel where a group of RAF officers are staying. Patricia (Miller), a glamorous if small-time actress, is in the first year of marriag[...]