Patrick Hamilton's play Gaslight held the stage in 1939, and Terence Rattigan's Flare Path played in 1942.
Trevor Nunn for Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
She starred as Patricia in the London production of Flare Path at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2011.
Rattigan began writing Flare Path, which focuses on a group of RAF bomber pilots and their wives, when he himself was a tail-gunner during the second world war.
The Flare Path: Weekly news and impressions of simulation and war games written by Tim Stone.
In 1942, she had the lead role as Patricia Graham in Terence Rattigan's Flare Path.
He was suffering from writer's block, but on a mission to West Africa in 1941 he started writing Flare Path.
The revival of Flare Path was well received by a number of critics.
Others include Harry Hadden-Paton, lately seen in Flare Path, and John Heffernan, fresh from Last of the Duchess.
Best Actress: Sheridan Smith for Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
