The Deep Blue Sea - Autumn 1959

The Deep Blue Sea unfolds over the course of a single day. It opens with an unconscious Hester being discovered on the floor of the Ladbroke Grove flat that she shares with her younger lover, having attempted to end her life. She’s recently left her husband Sir William Collyer, a High Court judge, for Freddie, a charismatic but emotionally remote former pilot, a man numbed by his wartime experiences and unable to adjust to life in peacetime. She loves him in ways he cannot love her, can never love her; she sees this and it eats at her.