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Pages in category "Plays by Noël Coward" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. The Astonished ...
Appeared in the same plays (with the exception of Star Chamber) National, New York 1942 Charles Condomine in his own play, Blithe Spirit. [n 28] St James's Toured in "Noël Coward's Play Parade" as Charles Condomine and as Garry Essendine and Frank Gibbons in his own plays, Present Laughter and This Happy Breed: 1943
This Was a Man is a play in three acts by Noël Coward.It satirizes the adulterous affairs of English high society. Its main characters are Edward Churt, a successful modern portrait painter and his wife Carol whose "vivid personality is composed of a minimum of intellect and a maximum of sex."
Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward.It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel.
Coward in 1972. Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
Waiting in the Wings was Coward's fiftieth play. [1] It premiered in Dublin on 8 August 1960 at the Olympia Theatre , and in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre on 7 September 1960. [ 2 ] It was directed by Margaret Webster and starred Sybil Thorndike , Lewis Casson , Marie Lohr and Graham Payn .
Mr Coward, after returning thanks to all concerned, said: "After all, it is a pretty exciting thing in these days to be English". And therein lies the whole secret of Cavalcade—it is a magnificent play in which the note of national pride pervading every scene and every sentence must make each one of us face the future with courage and high hopes.
The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" as Coward's most popular song. "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" is also among the top ten most performed Coward songs. "The Party's Over Now" ranks in the top thirty of Coward songs. [12]