Tamsin Greig gives an exquisite, aching performance in The Deep Blue Sea

This role will win Tamsin Greig a best actress Olivier award

Lindsay Posner’s revival of The Deep Blue Sea understands the power of silence

Tamsin Greig gives an exquisite, aching performance in The Deep Blue Sea

Terence Rattigan’s portrait of stifled desire is sensitively played at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

REVIEW: The Deep Blue Sea

Rating: 4 out of 5. Tamsin Greig Leads a Quietly Shattering Revival of Rattigan’s Masterpiece Lindsay Posner’s revival of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea is a production of restraint and delicacy. It doesn’t reach for theatrical fireworks, nor does it attempt to modernise or reframe the 1952 setting. Instead, it trusts the text and its quiet emotional force, allowing the heartbreak to seep in slowly. The result is a powerful, if at times mu…