Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea (Chaika Theatre at ACT Hub, 12–27 June) features “one of 20th-century theatre’s best parts for a woman”, in the words of Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington: “an upper-middle-class woman who has an unsatisfied physical and emotional passion worthy of a Racine protagonist”. This boarding-house Phèdre is Hester Collyer, a middle-aged woman who leaves her husband, an eminent judge, to find passion with a …
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