Editing Deborah Kerr (section)

==Theatre==
[[File:Deborah Kerr in colour Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|right|Kerr in 1973, by [[Allan Warren]]]]
Concern about parts offered her made her abandon film at the end of the 1960s, with one exception in 1985, in favour of television and theatre work.<ref name="Deborah"/>

Kerr returned to the London stage in many productions, including the old-fashioned, ''The Day After the Fair'' (Lyric, 1972), a [[Peter Ustinov]] comedy, ''Overheard'' (Haymarket, 1981) and a revival of [[Emlyn Williams]]'s ''The Corn is Green''.<ref name="Telegraph"/> After her first London success in 1943, she toured England and Scotland in ''Heartbreak House''.<ref name="Baxter 2007 Deborah Kerr obituary"/>

In 1975, she returned to Broadway, creating the role of Nancy in [[Edward Albee]]'s [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning play ''[[Seascape (play)|Seascape]]''.

In 1977, she came back to the West End, playing the title role in a production of [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''[[Candida (play)|Candida]]''.

The theatre, despite her success in films, was always to remain Kerr's first love, even though going on stage filled her with trepidation:
{{blockquote|I do it because it's exactly like dressing up for the grown ups. I don't mean to belittle acting but I'm like a child when I'm out there performing—shocking the grownups, enchanting them, making them laugh or cry. It's an unbelievable terror, a kind of masochistic madness. The older you get, the easier it should be but it isn't.<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1566509/Deborah-Kerr.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1566509/Deborah-Kerr.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Obituaries: Deborah Kerr |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=19 October 2007 |access-date=20 June 2020 |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref>}}