First Episode

by Terence Rattigan

Written while he was still at Oxford, the first of Rattigan’s plays to be staged tells of an infatuated undergraduate falling for an actress ten years older than himself.

Genres: Theatre

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 10, 2012

About the author

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBE was a British dramatist. He was one of England's most popular mid twentieth century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He 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 troubled homosexual, who saw himself as an outsider, his plays "confronted issues of sexual frustration, failed relationships and adultery", and a world of repression and reticence.