Flare Path

Flare Path, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2011.

Cast: Sienna Miller, James Purefoy, Sheridan Smith, Harry Hadden-Paton, Joe Armstrong, Jim Creighton, Sarah Crowden, Mark Dexter, Emma Handy, Matthew Tennyson, Clive Wood, Richard Beanland, Kate Colebrook, Jan Shepherd.

Writer: Terence Rattigan

Director: Trevor Nunn

I imagine the main reason I saw this was Sienna Miller who had been all over the tabloids for a long time at this point, but Sheridan Smith was surely the one with more experience and was probably better in this. I'm fairly certain I had a cheap seat in the highest circle.

In the programme it says that the play was written after Rattigan joined the RAF to help him get over his writer's block, a strategy suggested to him by a psychiatrist. Good God!