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- In_Praise_of_Love_(play) comment "In Praise of Love, originally entitled After Lydia, is the first part of a 1973 double-bill play by the English playwright Terence Rattigan (the second half being Before Dawn, a burlesque of the opera Tosca)—it was the penultimate play he wrote and was inspired by the true-life relationship between Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall, using characters named Sebastian and Lydia respectively and follows her illness and death.The plays were described by Rattigans biographer Michael Darlow as:The original production, at the Duchess Theatre, starred Donald Sinden as Sebastian and Joan Greenwood as Lydia. ".