id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5094 Terence Rattigan - Wikipedia .html text/html 3610 365 74 Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan CBE (10 June 1911 – 30 November 1977) was a British dramatist and screenwriter. After the war, Rattigan alternated between comedies and dramas, establishing himself as a major playwright: the most successful of which were The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version (1948), The Deep Blue Sea (1952), and Separate Tables (1954). There is some truth in this, but it risks being crudely reductive; for example, the repeated claim that Rattigan originally wrote The Deep Blue Sea as a play about male lovers, turned at the last minute into a heterosexual play, is unfounded,[14] though Rattigan said otherwise.[15] On the other hand, for the Broadway staging of Separate Tables, he wrote an alternative version of the newspaper article in which Major Pollock's indiscretions are revealed to his fellow hotel guests; in this version, those whom the Major approached for sex were men rather than young women. "Film of The Deep Blue Sea returns playwright Terence Rattigan to the spotlight" – via www.theguardian.com. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5094.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5094.txt