About the Play:

In Praise of Love is a full-length drama by Terence Rattigan. An almost unbearably moving story of veiled emotions running deep, In Praise of Love is based on the true life situation of Rex Harrison's wife, Kay Kendall, and her early death from cancer.

Lydia is shielding her husband, Sebastian, from the knowledge that she is dying from leukemia. But Sebastian does know and is seeking to spare her. She dies without either of them openly acknowledging their true feelings. This edition includes an authoritative introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.

In Praise of Love was first staged at the Duchess Theatre in London in 1973.

Cast: 1 female, 3 male

What people say:

"Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan." — Michael Billington

About the Author:

Sir Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) was a popular English dramatist who wrote some of the most memorable and important plays of the twentieth century. His plays are generally situated within an upper-middle-class background. He was that relative rarity among the ranks of playwrights: a major theatre author who was almost equally successful as a screenwriter, and one of a very few playwrights of his era privileged to adapt his own stage work to the screen on a regular basis.