The positives about doing a fine piece of writing such as Terence Rattigan’s Separate Tables is that the structure, dialogue and narrative will do a lot of the leg work for you. The problem with doing ...

As a play, Separate Tables consisted of two separate vignettes set against the same English boarding house and served as an acting tour de force for Eric Portman and Margaret Leighton. Much of the ...

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TERENCE Rattigan’s 1954 masterpiece, Separate Tables is fascinating audiences at the Garrick this week. It is a double bill with both plays set in the Hotel Beauregard in Bournemouth, home to a ...

Despite an inauspicious beginning with Harbor Lights, the theatre season in Boston is now developing into something quite stimulating. And one of the best things running at the moment is Separate ...

Separate Tables is a vital portrait of post-war Britain in flux. Here, in a small, shabby hotel in Bournemouth, a brutal clash of generations is playing out. Beneath a veneer of respectability lies a ...

Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician ruined by scandal, and their passion is rekindled.

Basil Rathbone is an old pro; Geraldine Page is a young pro. These two stars, collaborating in Terence Rattigan's masterfully written Separate Tables, are providing the Boston Summer Theatre with its ...