Coward Plays: 5
Coward Plays: 5

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 1408177358

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Containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life, this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in 1951-2, Look After Lulu (1959), his perennially popular Feydeau adaptation, Waiting in the Wings (1960), a bravura piece set in a home for retired actresses, and Suite in Three Keys (1965), a trilogy of plays which gave Coward his last roles on stage. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer, and includes an extensive chronology of Coward's work.

Coward Plays: 8
Coward Plays: 8

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: Methuen Drama

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13:

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This is the eighth volume of plays in the Coward collection.

Coward Plays: 5
Coward Plays: 5

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 1408162121

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Containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life, this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in 1951-2, Look After Lulu (1959), his perennially popular Feydeau adaptation, Waiting in the Wings (1960), a bravura piece set in a home for retired actresses, and Suite in Three Keys (1965), a trilogy of plays which gave Coward his last roles on stage. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer, and includes an extensive chronology of Coward's work.

Design for Living
Design for Living

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-05-08

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1408191490

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'The actual facts are so simple. I love you. You love me. You love Otto. I love Otto. Otto loves you. Otto loves me. There now! Start to unravel from there.' Design for Living is a wickedly witty dark romantic comedy by Noel Coward. Initially banned in the UK, this provocative play portrays three amoral, glib and stylish characters and their hopelessly inescapable, if also unconventional, emotional entanglement. From 1930s bohemian Paris to the dizzying heights of Manhattan society, a tempestuous love triangle unravels between a vivacious interior designer, Gilda, playwright Leo and artist Otto - three people unashamedly and passionately in love with each other. They are trapped in what Coward called 'a three-sided erotic hodge podge.' With Coward's trademark piquant style, this lively, funny but also atypical play looks at dazzling, egotistical creatures and their self-destructive dependence on each other. Exploring themes of bisexuality, celebrity, success and self-obsession, Design for Living is a stylish and scandalous comedy.

Three Plays by Noel Coward: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever [and] Private Lives
Three Plays by Noel Coward: Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever [and] Private Lives

Author: Noel Coward

Publisher: [New York] : Dell Publishing Company

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as "an improbable farce in three acts". The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book.

Coward Plays: 5
Coward Plays: 5

Author: Noel Coward

Publisher: Methuen Drama

Published: 1983-03-10

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13:

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"Reissued with ... revised introduction and chronology"--Title page verso.

Still Life
Still Life

Author: Noel Coward

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 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

Coward Plays: 1
Coward Plays: 1

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-06-06

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1408162199

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This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward and the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer. Hay Fever, a comedy of bad manners, concerns a weekend with friends of the Bliss family, who have all been invited independently for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The Vortex was a controversial drama in its time, introducing drug-addiction onto the stage at a time when alcoholism was barely mentioned. Fallen Angels, which is written for two star actresses was described as 'degenerate', 'vile', 'obscene', 'shocking' - the second half of the play is entirely taken up with an alcoholic duologue between the two women. Easy Virtue is an elegant, laconic tribute to a lost world of drawing-room dramas, no other writer went more directly to the jugular of that moralistic, tight-lipped but fundamentally hypocritical 20s society. "He is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history" Terence Rattigan

Star Quality
Star Quality

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: Methuen Drama

Published: 2001-10

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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Coward's legendary last play finally received its London premiere in 2001. With all the biting wit and insight you'd expect, this is an evocative farewell from the master of the London stage.