About Terence Rattigan: Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan is known for such works as The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version (1948), The Deep Blue Sea (1952) and Separate Tables (1954), among many others.
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all.