NT Live: The Deep Blue Sea

From the National Theatre's 2016 season of live recordings direct from the London stage, this is Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play starring Helen McCrory in one of the great female roles in modern drama.

"A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing." (National Theatre)

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