Productions
In 1949 the play was performed on Broadway, opening on October 12 at the Coronet Theater on 49th street with Maurice Evans as Crocker-Harris and Edna Best as his faithless wife. However, the play and its companion-piece Harlequinade failed to find favor with the New York critics (possibly as a retaliation against the London critics' lukewarm reception of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman in the same year) and closed after just 62 performances. Peter Scott-Smith as John Taplow was the sole member of the West End cast to reprise his role on Broadway. The Theatre Royal Bath put the show on in 2000 and re-staged it in 2009 starring Peter Bowles. It was performed at the Oxford Playhouse in August 2009, again starring Peter Bowles as Crocker-Harris, preceded by Anton Chekhov's one-act play Swansong, in which Bowles played the drunken old actor Svetlovidov. A production at the Chichester Festival Theatre (alongside South Downs, a new play written in response to it by David Hare) marks Rattigan's centenary.
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