Voicing the Suppressed: Nicholas Wright’s Rattigan’s Nijinsky
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This paper examines Nicholas Wright’s 2011 stage play, Rattigan’s Nijinsky, a re-fashioning of Terence Rattigan’s unproduced BBC television script, Nijinsky (1974). Wright’s palimpsestic text is interspersed with his own depiction of a dying Rattigan, worried about his artistic legacy. The metadramatic adaptation transforms about half of Rattigan’s original screenplay for the theatre, in addition to Wright’s own commentary on the source text and the characters and events surrounding it. Taking into account a recent reappraisal of Rattigan’s contribution to British theatre for his humanist sympathy for the outsider and for his analysis of the repressed English psyche, this study explores how Wright’s play works as a metadrama, and what it reveals of the relationships and tensions between Rattigan the suppressed homosexual and the frustrated playwright, and his emotionally ambiguous creations.
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This paper examines Nicholas Wright’s 2011 stage play, Rattigan’s Nijinsky, a re-fashioning of Terence Rattigan’s unproduced BBC television script, Nijinsky (1974). Wright’s palimpsestic text is interspersed with his own depiction of a dying Rattigan, worried about his artistic legacy. The metadramatic adaptation transforms about half of Rattigan’s original screenplay for the theatre, in addition to Wright’s own commentary on the source text and the characters and events surrounding it. Taking into account a recent reappraisal of Rattigan’s contribution to British theatre for his humanist sympathy for the outsider and for his analysis of the repressed English psyche, this study explores how Wright’s play works as a metadrama, and what it reveals of the relationships and tensions between Rattigan the suppressed homosexual and the frustrated playwright, and his emotionally ambiguous creations.
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