Editing Separate Tables (section)

==Adaptations==
{{Main article|Separate Tables (film)}}
The 1958 film, with a few extra parts, was adapted for the screen by Rattigan. It starred [[Rita Hayworth]], [[Deborah Kerr]], [[David Niven]], [[Burt Lancaster]] and [[Wendy Hiller]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120713114640/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b5780fa "Separate Tables (1958)"], British Film Institute, retrieved 19 March 2014</ref> [[John Schlesinger]] directed a television film version in 1983, with [[Julie Christie]] and [[Alan Bates]] as the two couples, with [[Claire Bloom]] as Miss Cooper and [[Irene Worth]] as Mrs Railton-Bell.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120805111011/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b862111fe "Separate Tables (1983)"], British Film Institute, retrieved 19 March 2014</ref>

The plays were adapted for television in 1970 as part of the [[Play of the Month|BBC Play of the Month]] anthology series by [[Hugh Whitemore]]. It starred [[Geraldine McEwan]] as Sibyl Railton Bell and Anne Shankland, [[Eric Porter]] as Major Pollock and John Malcolm and [[Annette Crosbie]] as Pat Cooper. [[Cathleen Nesbitt]], who played the role of Lady Matheson in the 1958 film adaptation, resumed the role in this adaptation as well.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066353/| title=BBC Play of the Month - Separate Tables| website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>