Tonight at 8.30

Tonight at 8.30

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-02-25

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 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.


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


Shadow Play

Shadow Play

Author: Noel Coward

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780573624629

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Characters: 5 male, 4 female Scenery: Suggested sets One of the Tonight At 8:30 series produced in London and New York. Victoria has just returned from the theatre where she saw a romantic musical. She quells a headache with three Anytal tablets just before her husband enters and announces divorce plans. Victoria, head buzzing, attempts to understand his reasons. She slips into a fantastic dream that reviews their meeting, courtship and marriage. Coming to, she clings to her husband and he reconsiders. Also published in Tonight at 8:30.


Ways and Means

Ways and Means

Author: Noel Coward

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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An impatient heiress Stella and her gambling husband Toby are penniless, but they manage to live elegantly enough sponging off their high society friends. As the play opens they are outstaying their welcome in the Lloyd-Ransomes' villa on the Côte d'Azur. But as Toby has no luck in the casino, their bridge debts are becoming unmanageable and the last of their jewellery is pawned, something very melodramatic needs to occur for them to get away with it this time. 'Ways and Means' is a short play from 'Tonight at 8.30', a series of ten plays, ranging from farce to melodrama to romantic comedy. After touring, 'Tonight at 8.30' was produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936.


The Noël Coward Reader

The Noël Coward Reader

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-09-06

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 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.


The Agitators

The Agitators

Author: Mat Smart

Publisher: Concord Theatricals

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 0573708304

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The Agitators tells of the enduring but tempestuous friendship of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Great allies? Yes. And at times, great adversaries. Young abolitionists when they met in Rochester in the 1840s, they were full of hopes, dreams, and a common purpose. As they grew to become the cultural icons we know today, their movements collided and their friendship was severely tested. This is the story of that forty-five-year friendship – from its beginning in Rochester, through a civil war, and to the highest halls of government. They agitated the nation, they agitated each other, and, in doing so, they helped shape the Constitution and the course of American history.


Something Borrowed

Something Borrowed

Author: Emily Giffin

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2012-03-27

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781250011862

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Giffin's smash-hit debut novel--basis for the 2011 film--is for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship.


Hands Across the Sea

Hands Across the Sea

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9780573622090

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Comedy / Characters: 6 male, 3 female Scenery: Interior One of the "Tonight At 8:30" series produced in London and New York. Lady Gilpin (Piggie) is so busy with social duties and gossip that she has no time for coherent thinking. She is set aflutter when her drawing room is suddenly filled with her husband's naval conferees, blueprint delivery boys and dumpy Mr. and Mrs. Wadhurst from the Far East, who flighty Piggie mistakes for the Rawlingsons. The Wadhursts overhear intimate phone conver


Tonight At 8.30

Tonight At 8.30

Author: Noël Coward

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1472503511

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Written as a vehicle for Coward's own acting talents alongside his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, Tonight at 8:30 is Coward's ambitious series of ten one-act plays which saw him breathe new life into the one-act form. First performed in London in 1936, the plays perfectly showcase Coward's talents as a playwright, providing a sparkling, fast-paced and remarkably varied selection of theatrical gems. All ten plays are collected together into this volume that features both Coward's own preface and an introduction by Barry Day, editor of The Letters of Nöel Coward. Coward wrote of the first series of three plays with characteristic delight: 'They are all brilliantly written, exquisitely directed, and I am bewitching in all of them.' Gertrude Lawrence wrote to Coward in 1947, 'Dearest Noël, wherever I go . . . all I hear is "Please revive Tonight at 8.30!"' 'Tonight at 8.30 surprises as much as it delights as, in some of the plays, Coward takes us to a world far removed from that of the wealth and glamour of the debonair London socialites who dominated much of his earlier work. But The Master's polish and sparkle are never far away as music and song intertwine with the wit and insight of one of our greatest ever playwrights.' Chichester Festival Theatre, 2006.