Kenny Morgan [Drama On 3]

Based on the events which inspired the writing of Terence Rattigan's play The Deep Blue Sea.

Actor Kenny Morgan was awarded ‘Best Newcomer' by the British film Industry in 1940, aged only twenty. He had a tremendous future ahead of him. A large and important part of which was as Rattigan's clandestine lover for nearly ten years. Until Kenny met a fellow actor who treated him badly and who was incapable of commitment or kindness.

1949. Kenny left Rattigan ten months previously and is living in a down at heel boarding house in Camden, quite a drop in circumstances from the lavish champagne life afforded him by his previous relationship. Yet Kenny is in love, totally, selflessly and self destructively.

The play shines a light in the dark corners of post war world of secrecy, curtain twitching, casual racism and internalised shame

Some references in the play may cause offence; they reflect the prejudice and the disadvantage of the times in which it was set.

Kenny Morgan - Paul Keating

Terence Rattigan - Max Irons

Ritter - Anton Lesser

Mrs Simpson - Annette Badland

Alec - Calam Lynch

Dafydd - Cerith Flinn

Norma - Ela Chapman

Adapted for radio from Mike Poulton's original stage play by Sean O'Connor.

Sound design by David Thomas

Directed by Marina Caldarone

A Pier Production for BBC Radio 3

Kenny Morgan by Mike Poulton, inspired by Terence Rattigan's play The Deep Blue Sea.

Kenny Morgan by Mike Poulton, inspired by Terence Rattigan's play The Deep Blue Sea, based on a real-life scenario of hopeless and destructive love in post war London.