Coward Plays Nine

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350040120

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Coward Plays: Nine by Noël Coward Pdf

Coward Plays: 9 offers up a fascinating selection of Noël Coward's lesser-known works. Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered (1940) follows Leila Heseldyne after she has fled to America, leaving a war-torn Britain and her husband behind; Long Island Sound(1947) sees a writer coerced into a riotous flock of high flying society people with turbulent results; and Volcano (1957) depicts a volcanic eruption as it punctuates the dubious conduct of six individuals on a fictional South Sea island. This volume also includes Design for Rehearsing (1933) was Coward's private satire on the way he , Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne worked on Design for Living. Age Cannot Wither (1967), Coward's last and unfinished play completes the collection as it portrays the boozy reunion of three women in their sixties, who meet without fail every year to reminisce. Together, these works offer a new and intriguing insight into Coward the playwright and his oeuvre that extends well beyond his most well-known works such as Private Lives, Blithe Spirit and Hay Fever. The volume is introduced by Coward expert and scholar Barry Day.

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:764435918

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Noel Coward Collected Plays by Noel Coward Pdf

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 041373420X

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Coward Plays by Noël Coward Pdf

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472503510

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Tonight At 8.30 by Noël Coward Pdf

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.

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Short stories
ISBN : PSU:000033229966

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Coward by Noël Coward Pdf

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307391001

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The Letters of Noel Coward by Noël Coward Pdf

Lavishly illustrated and annotated, this first and definitive collection of letters to and from Coward provides a divine portrait of an age, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond. The incomparable Noël Coward loved to correspond with friends, enemies, the famous and infamous, the talented and the powerful, including Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia, Somerset Maugham, and many more. Granted unlimited access to the Coward archive, Barry Day presents many never-published letters and has unearthed new, startling evidence of Coward's wartime work as a spy. Along with 191 rare photographs, these letters bring to life the people and events that shaped the twentieth century—and a remarkable man who made his own indelible mark at the heart of it.

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613181476

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Three Plays by Noël Coward Pdf

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472503343

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Coward Plays: 7 by Noël Coward Pdf

The Seventh volume in the Coward Collection. On Quadrille: "Miss Fontanne plays the madcap Marchioness with the crackle and sheen of a five-pound note. Her eyes mock marvelously, her voice cuts like a knife into a wedding cake, and the scene in Act Three, on the eve of her elopement with Mr. Lung, is as delicious as crushed ice." Evening Standard, 1952. "The idea of Peace in Our Time", Coward wrote "was conceived in Paris shortly after the Liberation. . . I began to suspect that the physical effect of four years intermittent bombing is far less damaging to the intrinsic character of a nation than the spiritual effect of four years enemy occupation." The volume also contains four pieces from the Tonight at 8.30 sequence: We Were Dancing "provides a marvelously compact illustration of the way the English public school spirit prevails even in moments of strenuous passion." "Shadow Play is a musical fantasy. . . which gave Gertie and me a chance to sing as romantically as we could, dance in the moonlight and, we hoped, convince the audience that we were very fascinating indeed"; and "Family Album - a sly satire on Victorian hypocrisy, adorned with an unobtrusive but agreeable musical score. It was stylised both in its decor and its performance, was a joy to play and provided the whole talented company with good parts." Star Chamber, closely based on Coward's experiences trying to co-ordinate his Actors' Orphanage charity committee, is published here for the first time.

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 9780307273376

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The Noël Coward Reader by Noel Coward Pdf

This reader brings together the best of Noël Coward's short stories, verse, songs, plays, screenplays, etc.

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573625778

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Ways and Means by Noel Coward Pdf

Comedy Chararcters: 5 male, 4 female Interior set One of the "Tonight at 8:30" series produced in London and New York. In a bedroom in Mrs. Lloyd Ransome's fabulous villa on the Cote d'Azur are heiress Stella Cartwright and her husband, a gambler. They are plagued by debts and their prolonged stay at the villa is becoming embarrassing when a scandalous chauffeur attempts to rob them and ends up saving their honor.

Author : Dan Dietz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538102770

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The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals by Dan Dietz Pdf

Despite the stock market crash of October 1929, thousands of theatregoers still flocked to the Great White Way throughout the country’s darkest years. In keeping with the Depression and the events leading up to World War II, 1930s Broadway was distinguished by numerous political revues and musicals, including three by George Gershwin (Strike Up the Band, Of Thee I Sing, and Let ’Em Eat Cake). The decade also saw the last musicals by Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and Vincent Youmans; found Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in full flower; and introduced both Kurt Weill and Harold Arlen’s music to Broadway. In The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines in detail every musical that opened on Broadway from 1930 through 1939. This book discusses the era’s major successes, notorious failures, and musicals that closed during their pre-Broadway tryouts. It includes such shows as Anything Goes, As Thousands Cheer, Babes in Arms, The Boys from Syracuse, The Cradle Will Rock, The Green Pastures, Hellzapoppin, Hot Mikado, Porgy and Bess, Roberta, and various editions of Ziegfeld Follies. Each entry contains the following information: Plot summary Cast members Names of all important personnel, including writers, composers, directors, choreographers, producers, and musical directors Opening and closing dates Number of performances Critical commentary Musical numbers and the performers who introduced the songs Production data, including information about tryouts Source material Details about London and other foreign productions Besides separate entries for each production, the book offers numerous appendixes, including a discography, filmography, and list of published scripts, as well as lists of black-themed and Jewish-themed productions. This comprehensive book contains a wealth of information and provides a comprehensive view of each show. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals will be of use to scholars, historians, and casual fans of one of the greatest decades in musical theatre history.

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573622094

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Hands Across the Sea by Noël Coward Pdf

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

Author : Noel Coward,Barry Day
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1350041319

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Collected Plays, Nine by Noel Coward,Barry Day Pdf

Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350246089

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Noël Coward by Russell Jackson Pdf

This is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition and reception of some of Noël Coward's most significant plays. It examines his working practices as a playwright, from manuscript to performance. This study argues that, while he did not embrace any of the more radical theatrical 'isms' of his time, Coward experimented with both form and content. He adapted the familiar 'well-made' formulas, while also emphasizing theatrical self-consciousness and an exploration of radical social and sexual relationships. After an overview of Coward's career and the reception of his plays, the work discusses selected texts from successive phases of Coward's career, including some unproduced or uncompleted work and perennially popular plays such as The Vortex, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Blithe Spirit and Present Laughter. This study also explores how, in the aftermaths of two world wars, as major changes in social and political circumstances suggested new approaches to dramaturgy, Coward's post-1945 work failed to achieve the same success he had enjoyed in earlier periods. The final chapter examines Coward's approach to his craft in response to the new theatrical and cultural environment, and the new freedom in the treatment of homosexuality represented by Suite in Three Keys and his final, uncompleted play, Age Cannot Wither.

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573624623

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Shadow Play by Noel Coward Pdf

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.