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The Browning Version
Written by Terence Rattigan
Narrated by Martin Jarvis, Steven Brand and Devon Sorvari
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
In Terence Rattigan’s classic drama, an aging schoolmaster at an English secondary school faces the harsh judgments of his students, his fellow teachers, and his vicious and spiteful wife. But can a lone act of kindness from a sympathetic student change his heart?
This recording also includes an interview with Michael Darlow, the author of “Terence Rattigan: The Man and His Work”.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Steven Brand as Frank Hunter
Martin Jarvis as Andrew Crocker-Harris
Ian Ogilvy as The Headmaster
Darren Richardson as Peter Gilbert
Devon Sorvari as Mrs. Gilbert
Kate Steele as Millie Crocker-Harris
Daniel Stewart as John Taplow
Directed by Peter Levin. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.
This recording also includes an interview with Michael Darlow, the author of “Terence Rattigan: The Man and His Work”.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Steven Brand as Frank Hunter
Martin Jarvis as Andrew Crocker-Harris
Ian Ogilvy as The Headmaster
Darren Richardson as Peter Gilbert
Devon Sorvari as Mrs. Gilbert
Kate Steele as Millie Crocker-Harris
Daniel Stewart as John Taplow
Directed by Peter Levin. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.
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Reviews for The Browning Version
Rating: 4.145833387500001 out of 5 stars
4/5
24 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An excellent one-act. The outcome surprised me in that the main character appeared to be doomed to a hellish existence with his whorish wife, but Rattigan suggests that that may not be so. He leaves one with a feeling of hope after all.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This play cemented Terence Rattigan’s reputation as a serious, mature playwright. It is viewed as one of his best works, and one of the best one-acts ever written. First performed at the Phoenix Theatre, London, England, on September 8, 1948, The Browning Version was coupled with another one-act by Rattigan entitled Harlequinade under the umbrella name, Playbill. This show ran for 245 performances, and Rattigan received the Ellen Terry Award for The Browning Version, his second. (The first was won two years earlier for The Winslow Boy.)The Browning Version concerns the life of Andrew Crocker-Harris, a classics schoolmaster at a British public school. Andrew is disliked by his unfaithful wife Millie, his colleagues, and his students. Rattigan based the character and the story of The Browning Version on a classics master he had at school as a student. Though only a one-act play, The Browning Version is a well-crafted and complete psychological study, indicative of his future direction as a playwright.