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

Author: Noel Coward
Publisher: [New York] : Dell Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
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.

Private lives

Author: Noel Coward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Private lives

Author: Noel Coward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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From Agent to Actor

Author: Edgar Small
Publisher: Samuel French , Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Offers up cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting "happy medium", one Madame Arcati. As the (worldy and un- ) personalities clash, Charles' current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, "passes over," joins Elvira and the two "blithe spirits" haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.

Coward the Playwright

Author: John Lahr
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520234147
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
An adept and well-focused study of Noel Coward-as-playwright by award winning New Yorker critic John Lahr.

The Vortex

Author: Noel Coward
Publisher: New York Harper 1925.
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Hay Fever

Author: Noël Coward
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350354120
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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"This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able to restrain oneself." - Evening Standard When four guests, all invited by different members of the Bliss family, arrive for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead, they're expecting a idyllic retreat. But this peaceful promise is quickly trounced when the self-absorbed eccentricities of the Blisses are trained on the guests, who leave the country mansion humiliated and embarrassed. First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is a technical masterpiece, seamlessly combining high farce with a comedy of manners, and delivering Coward his first major commercial success. This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 125th anniversary of Coward's birth and features a new introduction by Michael Billington.

Private Lives

Author: Noel Coward
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
ISBN: 9780573619250
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Een gescheiden echtpaar ontmoet elkaar weer na vijf jaar, terwijl zij beiden op huwelijksreis zijn met hun nieuwe partner.

Noel & Cole

Author: Stephen Citron
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780634093029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
First time in Paperback! Noel Coward and Cole Porter's fascinating lives celebrated. Fresh on the heels of the popular motion picture based on Cole Porter's life called De-Lovely, Noel and Cole presents a fresh and often surprising portrait of these two geniuses. The author provides insight into both men's private lives - including a frank discussion of their homosexuality - while illuminating their musical achievements. Born an ocean apart - one in Indiana, the other in England - Cole Porter and Noel Coward have come to represent the ultimate in sophistication and urbanity. Noel and Cole will be an essential reference as well as a fascinating dual biography of two men who brought style and dazzle to the art of popular entertainment. * Based on access to previously unpublished manuscripts, lyrics, scores, and letters, plus dozens of interviews * Includes a chronology and a fifty-page section devoted to the analysis of select works

Home Chat

Author: Noël Coward
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350025372
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 101

Book Description
I am shirking off the chains that have shackled me for so long – I have suddenly come to realise that I am a woman – a living, passionate, pulsating woman – it never occurred to me before. Janet Ebony and her best friend, Peter Chelsworth, are innocently sharing a sleeping compartment when their train to Paris is involved in a disastrous railway accident. Outrage and scandal ensue as Janet's husband, Paul, and her fearsome mother-in-law accuse Janet and Peter of adultery. Aghast at their families' accusations, Janet and Peter decide to take revenge by inventing an adulterous affair ... Written with Noël Coward's trademark wit and insight, Home Chat is a distinctly modern comedy about female sexuality and fidelity in a society rigidly governed by decorum and reputation. This edition was published to coincide with the first revival of the play since its premiere in 1927.