The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 5, 1956

Separate Tables (by Terence Rattigan) brings quicksilver to a Broadway season still lacking in blood. A big London hit, Separate Tables is as much stunt as drama in effect, as much production as play in appeal. The author of The Winslow Boy and 0 Mistress Mine has written two short plays with a shared background —a small, drab, English seaside hotel—and a recurrent roster of guests. In passing from one play to the other, only the two leading players, Margaret Leighton and Eric Portman—and they vary garishly—have new roles.

In Table by the Window...

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