Cause Célèbre Tickets
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Performance dates
14 March 2011 to 11 June 2011
Run time 2h40min, with interval of 20min, Monday - Saturday at 7.30pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm
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Terrance Rattigan's final play Cause Célèbre will be staged at The Old Vic in March 2011, celebrating the centenary of his birth.
Directed by Thea Sharrock, Cause Célèbre is based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury who went on trial with her 18-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. Condemned by the public more for her seduction of a young boy than for any involvement she may have had in her husband's death, Alma's fate is left in the hands of the socially and sexually repressed jury forewoman, Edith.
Special notes
Recommended age of 13+ with parental guidance.
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GOSSIP! JAMES MCAVOY FURIOUS AT SNORING CRITIC
Scandal at the opening night of Cause Célèbre as a critic snores loudly throughout the play...
1 Apr, 2011 | By London Theatre Direct

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ANNE MARIE DUFF STARRING IN CAUSE CELEBRE
Best known for playing Fiona Gallagher in TV's Shameless, and Elizabeth 1 in The Virgin Queen, Anne Marie Duff is an accomplished theatre actor, who has worked extensively with the Royal National Theatre and also in London's West End - Vassa, Collected Stories, King Lear and most recently the title character in Marianne Elliott's production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan to great acclaim and for which she was nominated as Best Actress at the Laurence Oliver awards in 2008. This was her second nomination as she was also in the Best Supporting Actress category in 2000 for The Collected Stories.
15 Mar, 2011 | By London Theatre Direct