Separate Tables

Separate Tables is regarded by many as Rattigan’s finest play. It is 2 one-act plays in one as the first Act has a completely separate plot to the second Act, though there are several characters appearing in both.

The first play, sub-titled ‘The Table by the Window’, focuses on the troubled relationship between a disgraced Labour politician and his ex-wife.

The second play, entitled ‘Table Number Seven’, is set about 18 months later and deals with the touching relationship between a repressed spinster and a kindly, but bogus, late middle-aged man posing as a upper-class retired army officer.