Author: Noel CowardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Home Chat, Sirocco, "This was a Man"
Author: Noel CowardCoward the Dramatist
Author: Roger KojeckyPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031522842
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The Vortex
Author: Noël CowardPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472503481
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
A single-volume edition of one of Coward's masterpieces, published to tie in with major Donmar Warehouse production in December 2002 In The Vortex, Coward explores the darker side of the Cocktail Party set. Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and shattered relationships are minutely observed in this disturbing, early piece from a playwright whose sharp eye was more usually turned towards the light. This first ever single-volume edition of this frequently revived Coward play ties in with the major revival directed by Michael Grandage, starring Francesca Annis and Chiwetel Ejiofor and Indira Varma at London's Donmar Warehouse. "Here is a piece which is the dernier cri in the theatrical mode, un peu shocking perhaps, but no less popular on that account" James Agate
Coward Revue Sketches
Author: Noël CowardPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408177536
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In the 1920s and 1930s Noël Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue sketch - short and often topical or satirical stage pieces, many of which were a lead-in to his famous songs. He wrote these sketches for the top revues of the 1920s and 1930s, including London Calling! (1923) and Cochrane's Revue of 1931. This volume collects Coward's best and most witty pieces, including Rain Before Seven, the only sketch he performed with Gertrude Lawrence, and the hilarious parody, Some Other Private Lives, in which Coward burlesques his own famous play, Private Lives. Also included are short one-act plays never before published. The collection includes an Introduction by Coward scholar Barry Day, setting the work in the context of its time and its dramatic form. A forgotten area of Coward's writing is now back in print.
Coward Plays: 8
Author: Noël CowardPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 147250335X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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".
Noel Coward
Author: Philip HoarePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476737495
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated and controversial dramatists. To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker Noël Coward (1899-1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. Given unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward family members, compatriots, and numerous lovers, Samuel Johnson Prize-winning biographer Philip Hoare has produced an illuminating and sophisticated biography of Coward, whose relentless drive for success and approval fueled the stunning bursts of creativity that launched the once-painfully middle class boy from the suburbs of London into a pantheon of theatrical deities that includes Gilbert and Sullivan, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw. As much the embodiment of a lifestyle as an actual inhabitant of it, Coward’s carefully cultivated image defined the aspirations of untold numbers of actors, artists, and writers who succeeded him, and Hoare’s meticulously researched biography peels away the layers of this complex persona to reveal the man underneath it all, whom The Times of London decreed upon his death to be the most versatile of all the great figures of the English theater.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: Who's who in the Theatre
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ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
Book Description
Issues for 1914-67 include "Notable productions and important revivals of the London stage from the earliest times."
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
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Category : Literary and political reviews
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
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