What's Next for Sandyford Little Theatre Company

Our Next Show:
Terence Rattigan's Cause Célèbre

Directed by Moira Walsh

The Mill Theatre Dundrum
April Tues 17th - Sat 21st at 8pm
The Mill Theatre
Dundrum Town Centre

Tickets €18/€15
Box Office Telephone:
+353 01 296 9340
Contact www.milltheatre.ie

Terence Rattigan's Cause Célèbre

An electrifying drama of love and lust, Cause Célèbre is the real-life story of Alma Rattenbury who, in 1935, was tried, alongside her young lover, the chauffeur, for the murder of her 68-year-old third husband, Francis Rattenbury. Both were charged with murder; both but particularly the woman were proclaimed filthy by the press; one was found guilty. Society was scandalised and enthralled by the trial, not necessarily because of the crime - but because of the moral profligacy that was perceived in Alma taking such a young lover.

Rattigan’s 1977 play, his last, exhibits all his preoccupations: the perils and pleasures of good breeding, the undoing of sexual desire and societal repression.