Flare Path is a play by Terence Rattigan, written in 1941 and first staged in 1942.^[1] Set in a hotel near an RAF Bomber Command airbase during the Second World War, the story involves a love trianglebetween a pilot, his actress wife and a famous film star. The play is based in part on Rattigan’s own wartime experiences.

At the Falcon Hotel on the Lincolnshire coast, men from a nearby RAF airbase are planning to spend the weekend with their wives. Patricia Graham, an actress from London, has something to tell her husband Teddy, who is a bomber pilot. The situation is complicated when Peter Kyle, a Hollywood film star, arrives at the hotel, and Teddy is sent out on a night raid over Germany. Patricia is torn between a rekindled old flame and loyalty to the husband who relies on her for support.