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Rattigan''s Nijinsky

English

By (author): Nicholas Wright Terence Rattigan

The extraordinary story of the relationship between the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, drawing on an unproduced screenplay by Terence Rattigan. 

In a hotel room a once-lauded playwright meets Nijinsky's elderly widow, Romola, to fight over his latest play. Meanwhile, in the same room, Diaghilev and the young Romola fight over the tormented Nijinsky.

In 1974, Terence Rattigan wrote a television script for the BBC about the relationship between Diaghilev, the impresario behind the Ballets Russes, and Nijinsky, the most renowned dancer of all time, which Rattigan described as 'the greatest love story since Romeo and Juliet'. But the playwright withdrew the play and it was never produced. Now in this bold re-imagining of events, Nicholas Wright investigates why.

Nicholas Wright's play Rattigan's Nijinsky was first staged at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2011.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 127g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Jul 2011
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781848421677

About Nicholas WrightTerence Rattigan

Nicholas Wright is a leading British playwright. His plays include: 8 Hotels (Minerva Theatre Chichester 2019); an adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's novel The Slaves of Solitude (Hampstead Theatre 2017); an adaptation of Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (Royal & Derngate Northampton 2014); Travelling Light (National Theatre 2012); The Last of the Duchess (Hampstead Theatre 2011); Rattigan's Nijinsky (Chichester Festival Theatre 2011); The Reporter (National Theatre 2007); a version of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin (National Theatre 2006); an adaptation of Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials (National Theatre 2003-4); Vincent In Brixton (National Theatre 2002; winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play); a version of Luigi Pirandello's Naked (Almeida Theatre 1998); and Mrs Klein (National Theatre & West End 1988). His writing about the theatre includes Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century co-written with Richard Eyre. Sir Terence Rattigan was one of the most popular English 20th-century dramatists. His first play First Episode was produced in 1934; his best-known later works include After the Dance Flare Path The Browning Version and The Deep Blue Sea. Many of his plays have been adapted for film and are frequently revived. He also served as an RAF tail gunner in WWII.

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