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((for multi|the genre of fiction|Adventure fiction|the 1961 BBC transmission of the play|Adventure Story (1961 TV play)))
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| writer     = [[Terence Rattigan]]
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| premiere   =  17 March 1949<ref name="Rose2003">((cite book|author=Martial Rose|title=Forever Juliet: The Life and Letters of Gwen Ffrancon-Davies, 1891-1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fIOoYGF9LrgC&pg=PA129|year=2003|publisher=Larks Press|isbn=978-1-904006-12-1|pages=129–))</ref>
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'''''Adventure Story''''' is a 1949, play by the English dramatist [[Terence Rattigan]].<ref name=rattigandotcom>((cite web|url=http://www.terencerattigan.com/plays|title=terencerattigan|website=terencerattigan))</ref> The play tells the story of [[Alexander the Great]] and his conquests.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.samuelfrench.co.uk/p/58253/adventure-story|title=Adventure Story|website=www.samuelfrench.co.uk))</ref>

In this play Rattigan portrays the historical Alexander faithfully, at the same time revealing that his life was what it was because he was the kind of person who very well might have wept because nothing remained to conquer.

The play focuses on the transformation of Alexander after his conquest of Persia from a military adventurist to an uncompromising despot with grand vision of a world empire which estranges him from his erstwhile friends. Driven by a deep-felt insecurity, he has to kill people close to him including even the father figure [[Cleitus the Black|Cleitus]]. He tries to justify his actions in the name of his dreams of the world empire, but is haunted by loneliness in the end

The play holds a deeper significance, that the conquests of Alexander were actually trials to find himself and achieve spiritual enlightenment, through becoming a god (see [[Divinization (Christian)|Theosis]]).

The play ends with a [[nihilism|nihilistic]] tone, that Alexander was to die and fade after all, his last words in the play are 'Who is to succeed me to the throne of [[Asia]]? Who shall I condemn to death?'<ref name=telegraph>((cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/8239390/Terence-Rattigan-plays-timeline-and-synopsis.html|title=Terence Rattigan plays: timeline and synopsis|date=29 October 2017|publisher=|via=www.telegraph.co.uk))</ref>

==Original production==
The play opened at the [[St. James's Theatre]] on 17 March 1949,<ref name="WatsonWillison1972">((cite book|author1=George Watson|author2=Ian R. Willison|title=The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9e48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR508|year=1972|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=508–|id=GGKEY:64CF45KC7C0))</ref> with [[Paul Scofield]] in his first starring [[West End theatre|West End]] role, as Alexander.<ref name=rattigandotcom/><ref name=telegraph/>

==Adaptations==
The [[BBC]] transmitted a [[Live television|live TV]] version of the play in 1950, starring Andrew Osborn as Alexander; and [[Adventure Story (1961 TV play)|another in 1961]], a recording of which has survived, directed by [[Rudolph Cartier]], with [[Sean Connery]] in the role.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f28ad18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107053459/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7f28ad18|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 November 2017|title=Adventure Story (1950)|publisher=))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b895d49b6|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107073756/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b895d49b6|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 November 2017|title=Adventure Story (1961)|publisher=))</ref> Of his performance, ''[[The Times]]'' wrote, "certain inflexions and swift deliberations of gesture at times made one feel that the part had found the young [[Laurence Olivier|Olivier]] it needs."<ref>((cite web|url=https://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/rattigan-on-dvd-sunday-night-theatre-adventure-story-bbc-1961/|title=Rattigan on DVD: Sunday Night Theatre: Adventure Story (BBC, 1961)|date=28 October 2011|publisher=))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*((IMDb title|qid=Q16960354))

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[[Category:1949 plays]]
[[Category:Biographical plays about military leaders]]
[[Category:Plays by Terence Rattigan]]
[[Category:Plays set in ancient Greece]]
[[Category:West End plays]]
[[Category:Plays set in the 4th century BC]]


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