Terence Rattigan’s devastating masterpiece contains one of the greatest female roles in contemporary drama.

Helen McCrory and director Carrie Cracknell reunite following the acclaimed Medea in 2014.

A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952.

When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion.

Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.