Editing Separate Tables (section)

{{Short description|Play written by Terence Rattigan}}
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[[File:SeparateTables.jpg|thumb|First edition (publ. [[Hamish Hamilton]], 1955)]]
'''''Separate Tables''''' is the collective name of two one-act plays by [[Terence Rattigan]], both taking place in the Beauregard Private Hotel, [[Bournemouth]], on the south coast of England. The first play, titled ''Table by the Window'', focuses on the troubled relationship between a disgraced [[Labour party (UK)|Labour]] politician and his ex-wife.  The second play, ''Table Number Seven'', is set about 18 months after the events of the previous play, and deals with the touching friendship between a repressed spinster and Major Pollock, a kindly but bogus man posing as an upper-class retired army officer. The two main roles in both plays are written to be played by the same performers. The secondary characters – permanent residents, the hotel's manager, and members of the staff – appear in both plays.