Terence Rattigan

“You wiped the floor with me!” Tamsin Greig and Oliver Chris have a row with Rattigan

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On May 8, 1956, Terence Rattigan stood outside the Royal Court Theater in London after the opening night of a revolutionary new drama. This was not one of his own plays, but a breakdown of the upstart generation: John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger. Or, as the veteran playwright bitterly put it: Look how different … Read more

Joss Ackland obituary

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There was something grand, grand and encompassing about the actor Joss Ackland, who has died at the age of 95. He was a fixture in British films for decades and a stalwart of the Old Vic, the Royal Shakespeare Company – playing Falstaff in the opening RSC production of Henry IV, parts one and two, … Read more