Bibliography
- David Pattie. Modern British Playwriting: The 1950s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations. 2013.
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Who Is Sylvia? is a 1950 comedy play by the British writer Terence Rattigan about a man obsessed with the image of a woman he met as a seventeen year old and his search for her throughout the rest of his life. The play offered a thinly veiled portrayal of Rattigan's own philandering father. [1] Like Perchance to Dream , Ivor Novello's long-running musical terminating only two years previously, Rattigan chose a line from William Shakespeare for his title. The line is the first wistful question of a song passage in The Two Gentlemen of Verona . [2]
The play opened at the Criterion Theatre, London, on 24 October 1950, [3] with the following cast: [3]
Although it ran for over a year, it was not considered as successful as several of the playwright's previous works. [4] This was especially so critically, with the Evening Standard's Beverley Baxter writing, "This Will Not Do, Mr Rattigan." [5]
The play was adapted into a 1955 film The Man Who Loved Redheads . [6] [7]
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