The Deep Blue Sea

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The Deep Blue Sea description

Spring 2025 sees a limited run of a double season of productions opening in the West End. One of them is this, Terence Rattigan's brilliant 1952 exploration of obsession and the destructive nature of love, starring the Olivier Award-winner Tamsin Greig.

Exploring emotional turmoil in post-WW2 London

Terence Rattigan partly based this play and its characters on his secret relationship with Kenny Morgan, and the fall-out when it ended. A powerful drama, it delves into the emotional turmoil experienced by Hester Collyer, whose passionate but destructive affair with a former RAF pilot Freddie Page leads to love, loss and isolation as she also struggles with an unfulfilled marriage to her high court judge husband.

About The Deep Blue Sea

The play originally premiered in London in 1952 and has enjoyed a long list of revivals ever since, including 1971’s version starring Isabel Dean, a 1977 version with Sheila Hancock and Clive Francis, a 1997 New York City production starring Blythe Danner, Edward Herrmann, and David Conrad, and the 2019 Chichester Festival Theatre production starring Nancy Carroll. This new production started life at the Theatre Royal Bath, enjoying a short run there in early 2024.

The Deep Blue Sea Cast and Creative team

Tamsin Greig is one of the country's best-loved actors of stage and screen, a comedy genius as well as a serious actor. She won the Olivier for Best Actress in 2007 for Much Ado About Nothing and received nominations for The Little Dog Laughed and Women on the Verge of a Breakdown. On TV she made us laugh out loud with roles in Green Wing, Episodes, and Friday Night Dinner. She will be joined by Finbar Lynch (Girl From The North Country, Child 44, Proof, and Suffragette).

The show is directed by Lindsay Posner. The rest of the creative team includes Set and Costume Design by Peter McKintosh, Lighting Design from Paul Pyant, and Sound Design by Gregory Clarke. The Composer is Will Stuart, the Hair, Wigs and Make-up Designer is Carole Hancock, the Casting Director is Ginny Schiller and the Associate Director is George Jibson.

Starring

Tamsin Greig

Playing at Theatre Royal Haymarket

8 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4HT GB (venue info)

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