by TERENCE RATTIGAN directed by AMELIA SEARS
STREAM ON DEMAND FROM HOME
Watch online any time between 7.30pm BST on 8 Jul 2025 and 11.59pm BST on 11 Jul 2025. Choose any date below to book tickets to watch from home. Once purchased, the stream can be acccessed here (customers must bbe logged into their OT account).
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Honesty between people who love each other is the thing that matters least in this life.
England, 1973. Estonian refugee Lydia and her Marxist literary critic husband Sebastian both worked in wartime intelligence. They excel at keeping secrets – from friends, from each other, and even from themselves. But their world is crumbling.
The arrival of Lydia’s admirer, a best-selling American author, sparks their complex deceptions into an explosion of family truths.
A perceptive and deeply moving drama, In Praise of Love is Rattigan’s penultimate play, and loosely based on the relationship between the actor Rex Harrison and his wife Kay Kendall.
Orange Tree audiences loved Terence Rattigan’s French Without Tears and While the Sun Shines. This is a rare chance to see a haunting and provocative play by one of the twentieth century’s most popular playwrights.
“The most piercing exposition of love under great stress I have ever seen on the stage.” Harold Hobson, Sunday Times on In Praise of Love
“Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan.” Michael Billington
CONTENT ADVICE
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Creatives
Writer Terence Rattigan
Director Amelia Sears