Terence Rattigan and a theatre of cultural reaction | David Hare
Turning Terence Rattigan into a martyr smacks of the wheedling Tory tone of self-righteous privilegeOf course, you must expect it: in rightwing times, rightwing art flourishes. In the London theatre, the Donmar Warehouse has prospered by seeking out religious mystic playwrights of the last century like TS Eliot and Enid Bagnold, while a journey through the West End today offers almost no new plays of any intelligence…