The Rat Trap
The Rat Trap (1918) is a four-act drama by Noël Coward, written when he was 18, but not staged until he was 26, by which time he was well known as a rising playwright, after the success of The Vortex.In his 1937 memoirs, Present Indicative, he admits that as "a whole it was immature, but it was much steadier than anything I had done hitherto ... when I had finished it, I felt, for the first time with genuine conviction, that I could really write plays.Keld comes to see her and she tells him that although she no longer loves him she is prepared to come back to him because she is pregnant and feels "so alone and so dreadfully frightened".[9] A professional revival of the play was presented at the Finborough Theatre, a London fringe venue in Earl's Court, as part of its Forgotten Voices Season 2006, from 28 November to 23 December 2006, in a production directed by Tim Luscombe, which received good press notices.Gregory Finnegan and Catherine Hamilton played the leading roles with the veteran actress Heather Chasen as Burrage.
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