The Recovery Season continues with new shows for 2022...
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25 November 2021
Announcing the continuation of the Recovery Season
Welcome to the next phase of our Recovery Season. As we enter our 50th year, we are very proud to be able to continue our recovery with this classic mixing of the old and new at the Orange Tree, alongside the renewal of our Community programme.
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11 November 2021
A Very Good War: Dan Rebellato on While the Sun Shines
Although more recently British theatre has paid particular attention to his more sombre plays, in the 1930s and 1940s, Terence Rattigan was mostly celebrated for his comedies. Just as French Without Tears delighted audiences in the 1930s, While the Sun Shines was one of the most effervescent theatrical experiences of the 1940s, comfortably outlasting the war that was its setting. While the Sun Shines is a farce, not a form that Rattigan worked in very often – despite the pleasure he took in meticulous play construction.
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