In Praise Of Love
by
Terence Rattigan
26th - 31st March 2012
Director: Ryan Ellershaw
The play's action is loosely inspired by the true-life relationship between the actor Rex Harrison and his actress wife Kay Kendall. In the play, the couple are transformed into the egotistical left-wing literary critic Sebastian and his East European refugee wife Lydia. During the Second World War, some 30 years previously, Sebastian had served in military intelligence while the part-Jewish Lydia was with the Resistance and then survived on her wits and her feminine charms; each is shown using the aptitude for deception developed then to try to protect the other from the knowledge that Lydia is suffering from a terminal illness.
| Lydia Cruttwell | Rani Jackson |
| Sebastian Cruttwell | Paul Reid |
| Mark Walters | Richard Frost |
| Joey Cruttwell | SCott Fance |
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