Greta Scacchi stars in The Deep Blue Sea at the Theatre Royal Bath Photo: Nobby Clark
Until Saturday February 9,
Theatre Royal Bath.
GOLF can seriously ruin your life - that is one of the main lessons in The Deep Blue Sea, which is on at the Theatre Royal in Bath until February 9.
The play opens with the discovery of the body of Hester Collyer, played by Greta Scacchi, who has attempted to kill herself after her lover went off to play golf, instead of remembering her birthday.
We later learn that she left her first husband for this new man after he was away playing golf.
As I said - golf can seriously ruin your life.
Terrence Rattigan wrote the play after his own former lover committed suicide and he tried to make sense of this terrible event through writing about it.
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The play deals with Hester Collyer's dilemma of carrying on with her new lover who she now realises does not love her, or going back to her former husband whom she herself does not love.
It is tough stuff to sit through on a cold February evening - there is a lot of angst, anger and tears.
Greta Scacchi looked utterly exhausted after her moving performance as a woman on the brink.
Dugald Bruce-Lockhart's Freddie Page was the perfect foil to her as a brash and boozed-up former Spitfire pilot who is lost now the war is over.
But Tim McMullen's Mr Miller, the caring doctor and neighbour with a shady past, quietly stole the show and added a much-needed note of dry humour to proceedings.
His character is the one who makes the most effort to convince Hester Collyer to have the courage to go on with life and it is he who seems like he is speaking the real voice of Rattigan.
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