The Winslow Boy

Synopsis

Drama about a family's moral legal case that creates national interest. Fourteen year old Ronnie Winslow is expelled from Osborne Naval College accused of stealing a postal order. Ronnie swears he did not do it, and so his father Arthur begins a fight to prove his son's innocence. The whole Winslow family is drawn into the consequences of the court action. First performed in London in 1946.

Our Review:

13 June 2001

Sir Terence Rattigan belonged to a generation of playwrights, who, before the age of Angry Young Men and kitchen sink drama, valued carefully crafted plays in which character and plot took precedence over social comment. It is therefore surprising, on revisiting this superb revival by Christopher Morahan, to see how relevant his play, The Winslow Boy, is to contemporary issues. Our current predilection to matters touching on human rights and, in particular, the balance of individual rights against the demands and interests of the State, is at the heart of it.

The play, written in 1946 and based on an actual case dating back to the first decade of the 20th century, has been revived many times - too many some would say - but, I suspect, never as well as in the current Chichester production.

Edward Hardwicke, well known to television watchers as Dr Watson, plays the father of young Ronnie Winslow. Ronnie (Nicholas Deigman) is summarily expelled, after a...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com - 8 October 2001:

The play was excellent.Everyone did an outstanding job in their roles.I was truly impressed. I travelled from western Canada just to see this play and it was worth the time and effort.I think David Rintoul was outstanding. ...

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