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Coward Plays: 8

Coward Plays: 8
Author: Noël Coward
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2014-03-20
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408177382

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The eighth volume in the Coward Collection includes I'll Leave It To You and The Young Idea, the first of Coward's plays ever to be produced. These were, as he said, "enthusiastically acclaimed by the critics and ran five weeks and eight weeks respectively. In both of them I appeared with the utmost determination." This Was a Man, a slightly later play, was written in 1926, after the successes which made his name. It was originally banned by the Lord Chamberlain "for facetious adultery".


Tonight at 8.30

Tonight at 8.30
Author: Noël Coward
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2009-02-25
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408113457

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A collection of Coward's ambitious series of ten one-act plays - a sparkling, fast paced and remarkably varied selection of theatrical gems.


Tonight at 8:30

Tonight at 8:30
Author: Noel Coward
Publisher:
Total Pages: 119
Release: 1937
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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Still Life

Still Life
Author: Noel Coward
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1965
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573624902

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Characters: 6 male, 5 female Interior Set One of the Tonight at 8:30 series, a success in London and New York. The movie Brief Encounter was based on this play. In a suburban rail station, Dr. Harvey removes a cinder from Laura's eye and they fall in love. Subsequent weekly meetings over tea, scenes debating respectability or love, and some sentimental moments transpire before they decide they must part forever. He is accepting a faraway post and she must return to a circumspect


The Vortex

The Vortex
Author: Noel Coward
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2022-08-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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Published in 1924, "The Vortex" is a play in three acts by the English writer and actor Noël Coward. The play depicts the sexual vanity of a rich, ageing beauty, her troubled relationship with her adult son, and drug abuse in British society circles after the First World War. The son's cocaine habit is seen by many critics as a metaphor for homosexuality, then taboo in Britain. Despite, or because of, its scandalous content for the time, the play was Coward's first great commercial success.


The Noël Coward Reader

The Noël Coward Reader
Author: Noël Coward
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 626
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0307474879

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The Noël Coward Reader offers a wonderfully wide-ranging selection—the first of its kind—of the best of the Master’s oeuvre, entertainingly annotated and abundantly illustrated, and including material that has never before been published. Here are scenes from Coward’s famous plays, from Private Lives to Blithe Spirit, and his screenplays, from Brief Encounter to In Which We Serve. Here are four of his best short stories, scenes from his only novel, and a generous selection of his verse, alongside the lyrics of many of his most sublime songs, including “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” “The Stately Homes of England,” and “Mad About the Boy.” The Noël Coward Reader is a must-have book both for those who adore his work and for those who are just discovering the many-faceted delights of his comic genius.


Present Indicative

Present Indicative
Author: Noël Coward
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408190788

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"I was photographed naked on a cushion very early in life, an insane, toothless smile slitting my face and pleats of fat overlapping me like an ill-fitting overcoat. Later, at the age of two, I was photographed again. This time in a lace dress, leaning against a garden roller and laughing hysterically. If these photographs can be found they will adorn this book." Thus begins the life story of one of the most celebrated characters in British theatrical history, in the first of Coward's autobiographies, first published in 1937. Displaying an early dedication to the theatre, Present Indicative hints at the success that would come to Coward as actor, playwright, novelist and performer. Each line is punctuated with his trademark effervescent wit, making this book a comic tour de force in it's own right, as well as a "must read" for anyone with an interest in the British stage. "He is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history" Terence Rattigan


The Comeback

The Comeback
Author: Ben Ashenden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781848429925

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A joyful and dazzlingly funny debut play by an award-winning comedy duo.


Hay Fever

Hay Fever
Author: Noël Coward
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2023-05-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350354120

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"This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able to restrain oneself." - Evening Standard When four guests, all invited by different members of the Bliss family, arrive for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead, they're expecting a idyllic retreat. But this peaceful promise is quickly trounced when the self-absorbed eccentricities of the Blisses are trained on the guests, who leave the country mansion humiliated and embarrassed. First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is a technical masterpiece, seamlessly combining high farce with a comedy of manners, and delivering Coward his first major commercial success. This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 125th anniversary of Coward's birth and features a new introduction by Michael Billington.