n/a

Manchester

1950

-

some items in The Noel Coward Songbook, 1953

B00021QEKO

Studio cast recording: Bayview (B00021QEKO)

2004

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Musical

-

0

-

Music and lyrics by Noel Coward

Soho night club singer Pinkie Leroy falls in love with a sailor. They get mixed up with crooks and a missing diamond necklace.

London

1954

-

Chappell, London, 1954

-

Original cast recording: Sepia (1043)

1954

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Adaptation

6

6

-

music by Coward, from a play by Wilde

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London

1939

-

-

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Sketches in

Sketch

-

0

-

-

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Little Theatre, London

1922

Grand-Guignol Company

in London’s Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror by Richard J. Hand & Michael Wilson, University of Exeter, 2008

-

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Comedy

One Act

1

2

-

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plot revolves around the romantic lives of the three characters, David, Marion and Alice.

His Majesty's Theatre, London

1929

-

Secker, London, 1929

-

London Revival cast recording: TER (CDTER2 1160)

1988

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Musical

-

0

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music by Coward

Everything that wealthy London society had to offer a properly brought-up girl lay at the feet of little Sarah Millick in 1875; but she fell so desperately in love with her handsome young singing master that she threw it all away in order to be with him.

London

1941

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Doubleday, NY, 1941

-

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Improbable Farce

Farce

2

5

-

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When the novelist Charles Condomine holds a seance to research his thriller about a homicidal medium, he gets more than he bargined for.

-

1922

-

-

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-

-

-

0

-

-

-

London

1931

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Heinemann, London, 1933

-

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-

-

0

-

-

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Manchester

1931

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-

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Sketches in

Sketch

-

0

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New York

1924

-

-

-

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Sketches in

Sketch

-

0

-

-

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London

1925

-

-

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Sketches in

Sketch

-

0

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Queen's Theatre, London

1966

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Heinemann, London, 1966

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One Act

2

2

-

part of Suite in Three Keys

A plea for homosexual tolerance within an earnestly moral set of works.

Musical

-

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Heinemann, London, 1934

-

Studio cast recording: Columbia (SL-163)

1951

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-

-

0

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Music and lyrics by Noel Coward

-

London

1922

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-

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Sketches in

Sketch

-

0

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A Pierrotic Entertainment

New York

1933

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Doubleday, New York, 1933

-

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Play/Drama

6

4

-

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Leo to Gilda: " I love you. You love me. You love Otto. I love Otto. Otto loves you. Otto loves me".

New York

1925

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Harper, New York, 1926

-

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-

-

0

-

-

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Globe Theatre, London

1925

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Ernest Bell Ltd, London, 1925

-

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Play/Drama

3

3

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Two rich married women get roaring drunk while planning adultery with the same French lover.

-

1936

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Samuel French Ltd, London

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One act

5

4

-

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A sombre family arrive back home after the funeral of their father. Once the Madeira has started flowing so has their mood. The eldest daughter, Lavinia, says what her siblings have been thinking. Their father was a cruel unfeeling man and they are glad he is dead. Then Lavinia tells them that she burnt the father's last will because it disinherited them all.

-

-

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Samuel French Ltd, London

9780573020797

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One act

1

3

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Henry Gow was tricked into marriage. He hates his nagging wife, unpleasant daughter and domineering mother-in-law. One evening after a couple of drinks he tells them what he thinks of them and leaves - forever.

Broadway Theater, New York

1963

-

-

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Original cast recording: Columbia (KOS-2420)

1964

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Musical

-

0

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Music by Noël Coward; Book by Harry Kurnitz; Lyrics by Noël Coward; Based on the play "The Sleeping Prince" by Terence Rattigan

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London

1952

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-

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Sketches in

Sketch

-

0

-

-

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London

1925

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Ernest Bell Ltd, London, 1925

-

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Comedy

-

0

-

Methuen Drama, London >>>

Noel Coward’s classic comedy is set in the country home of the eccentric Bliss family — Judith, a recently retired stage actress, David , a self-absorbed novelist and their two equally bohemian children – who all live in their own world where the boundaries between reality and fiction are extremely blurred. Upon entering this domain, their unsuspecting weekend guests – an upright diplomat, a shy flapper, an athletic boxer, and a fashionable sophisticate – are repeatedly thrown into wildly melodramatic situations by their hosts. The resulting pandemonium is a joy to witness.

London

1927

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Secker, London, 1927

-

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-

-

0

-

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Aldershot, Hampshire

1917

-

-

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-

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0

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with Esmé Wynne

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Manchester

1920

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Samuel French, London, 1920

-

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Light Comedy in Three Acts

Comedy

4

6

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a supposedly rich man prods, manipulates, bribes and wins his idle nephews and dependent nieces over to work, profitable work.
- Benedict Nightingale, The Times

Screenplay

1942

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-

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-

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0

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Westport, Connecticut

1951

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-

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-

-

0

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aka South Sea Bubble

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Radio Play

1951

-

-

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-

-

0

-

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London

1923

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some items included in The Collected Sketches and Lyrics, 1931

-

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Revue

Show

-

0

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with Ronald Jeans

-

-

1959

-

-

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ballet scenario

-

-

0

-

-

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Henry Miller's Theatre, New York

1959

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Heinemann, London, 1959

-

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Farce

11

6

extras

Original Playwright - Georges Feydeau (Occupe-toi d'Aimirie)

Lulu arranges mock marriage whist eyeing the main chance of a rich Oriental prince, farce ensues.

London

1951

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-

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0

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London

1927

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Ernest Bell Ltd, London, 1927

-

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-

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0

-

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Screenplay

1952

-

-

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-

-

-

0

-

-

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Globe Theatre, London

1956

-

in "Plays & Players" London Dec/Jan, 1956

-

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Light Comedy

Comedy

8

6

-

-

Total output of artist found to be fraudulent at his funeral, blackmail enhances reputation and value of his works.

London

1925

-

some items included in The Collected Sketches and Lyrics, 1931

-

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Revue

Show

-

0

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music by Philip Braham

London

1938

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Heinemann, London, 1938

-

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Musical

-

0

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music by Coward

-

Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London

1946

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in Play Parade V, 1958

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Original cast recording: Encore Box Office (ENBO 8/93)

1946

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Musical Romance

Musical

-

0

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Music and lyrics by Noel Coward

-

-

1931

-

-

-

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-

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0

-

-

-

London

1947

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Heinemann, London, 1948

-

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-

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-

-

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Boston

1934

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Doubleday, NY, 1935

-

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-

-

0

-

-

-

Televised

1967

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Heinemann, London, 1931

-

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-

-

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-

-

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Blackpool

1942

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Heinemann, London,

-

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Comedy

5

6

-

also published Methuen Drama, London, 2007 >>>

At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. His line in harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanours is discovered. And all hell breaks loose.

Kings Theatre, Edinburgh

1930

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Heinemann, London, 1930

-

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Intimate Comedy

Comedy

2

3

-

Methuen Drama, London >>>

Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, divorced from one another five years previously, arrive coincidentally at the same French hotel. They are both honeymooning with their respective new spouses, but find that the old bond between them cannot be swept aside.

London

1952

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Doubleday, NY, 1952

-

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-

-

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-

-

-

London

1926

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Ernest Bell Ltd, London, 1926

-

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-

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Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, londonLondon

1926

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in Three PlaysErnest Bell Ltd, London, 1924

-

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Play in 4 acts reduced to 3 on production

Play/Drama

3

4

-

-

this is the first play Coward wrote. in 1918, when he was no older than the century, and even for a teenager as knowledgeable in the ways of the world as the adolescent Coward the marital troubles of his central couple show a firm grasp of the realities and an instinct for how to dramatise them. No one mentions the war. It could be happening on another planet. What interests Coward is love, marriage and the likely impossibility of either of these surviving when both the partners possess what he calls the "artistic temperament". We first meet Sheila and Keld on the eve of their wedding, she a suecessful novelist, he an aspiring playwright. She is warned by her mannish friend Olive that one or the other of them will have to abandon writing if the union is to work, and we watch this come to pass over the next two years.
Jeremy Kingston, The Times

London

1951

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Heinemann, London, 1954

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-

-

0

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Broadhurst Theatre, New York

1961

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selections in "The Lyrics of Noel Coward",

-

Original cast recording: DRG (15023)

1961

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Musical Comedy

Musical

-

0

Large Cast

music by Coward

Love affairs on a ship's cruise to the sunshine centre on the ship's social hostess.

-

1977

-

Methuen Drama, London >>>, 2001

-

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-

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0

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Written in 1926 and originally entitled 'Ritz Bar', 'Semi-Monde' was considered too daring for its time. A visually daring comedy that provides a metaphor for Coward''s own sexuality.

Boston

1938

-

-

-

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Revue

Show

-

0

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aka Words and Music

-

Queen's Theatre, London

1966

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Heinemann, London, 1966

-

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One Act

2

2

-

part of Suite in Three Keys

A plea for homosexual tolerance within an earnestly moral set of works.

London

1945

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some items in The Noel Coward Songbook, 1953

-

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Revue

Show

-

0

-

-

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Daly's Theatre, London

1927

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in Three Plays with a Preface, Secker, London, 1927

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3 Act

Play/Drama

-

0

-

-

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Queen's Theatre, London

1966

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Heinemann, London, 1966

-

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Comedy

1

2

-

part of Suite in Three Keys

sexual confusion and perceived blackmail for elderly knight

Dublin

1956

-

-

-

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Light Comedy

Comedy

9

3

-

aka Island Fling

-

-

-

Methuen Drama, London >>>,

-

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Comedy Drama

Comedy

-

0

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Adapted from the Noel Coward novel by Christopher Luscombe

The ins and outs of getting a play put on by a "brilliant" new playwright.The director and his personal assistant are an item.

Queen's Theatre, London

1966

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Heinemann, London, 1966

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Trilogy

One Act

2

2

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A Song at Twilight; Shadows of the Evening; Come Into the Garden Maud.

A plea for homosexual tolerance within an earnestly moral set of works.

London

1918

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-

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Sketches in

Sketch

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0

-

-

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New York

1931

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Harms, NY, 1931

-

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Sketches in

Sketch

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Blackpool

1942

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Heinemann, London, 1943

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-

-

0

-

-

-

New York

1926

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Harper, NY, 1926

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-

-

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-

-

-

London

1928

-

in Play Parade II, 1939

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Revue

Show

-

0

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-

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Manchester(produced in three programmes with London & New York 1936)

1935

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Heinemann, London (3 vols) - Star Chamber, 1936

-

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includes We Were Dancing, The Astonished Heart, Red Peppers: An Interlude with Music, Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak: An Unpleasant Comedy, Shadow Play, Family Album: A Victorian Comedy with Music, Star Chamber, Ways and Means, Still Life

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.

Palace, Westcliff

2000

New Palace Theatre Company

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-

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Play/Drama

3

4

-

-

IF Noel Coward seems unsure of his own voice in this previously unperformed play from 1955, it is exactly this that makes it interesting. Set among adulterous colonial ex-pats in the West Indies puffing cigarettes and sinking Martinis for England, we are on familiar Cowardly ground. At the centre is an unrequited love rhombus as plantation owner Adela is wooed by swarthy, moustachioed lady killer Guy. Meanwhile, Guy's acid-tongued wife Melissa has overcome a tide of phobias to fly out and see off Adela, but doesn't count on inadvertent support from lovelorn Ellen - gorgeously described by neighbours as "a nice enough girl, but a bit of a fat-head emotionally". As for the fulminating volcano offstage, you don't need to be a Freudian psychotherapist to work that one out.
Patrick Marmion, Evening Standard

London

1924

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Ernest Bell Ltd, London, 1925

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Play/Drama

5

4

-

Methuen Drama, London >>>

The play itself is a quaint historical document: one in which Coward views the hectic decadence of the twenties upper-crust with his familiar mixture of fascination and finger-wagging censoriousness. The chief obiect of his disapproval is Florence Lancaster: an ageing beauty who cavorts with a succession of toyboys to keep the years at bay. But Coward's emotional interest lies in the devastating effect this has on her son, Nicky. Returning to London from a life of Parisian dissipation, Nicky not only loses his fiancee to Flo's latest beau. He also, in a scene reminiscent of that in Gertrude's closet, forces his mother to confiont the vanity of her desires.
Michael Billington, Guardian

Duke of York Theatre, London

1960

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Heinemann, London, 1960

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Play/Drama

4

14

-

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Bickering of old actresses at a retirement home, ex luvies eventually unite.

1932

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in Collected Sketches and Lyrics, 1931

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London

1927

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Sketches in

Sketch

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on tour

1917

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with Esmé Wynne

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London

1932

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Revue

Show

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0

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aka Set To Music

-

London

1924

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Sketches in

Sketch

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0

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Bristol

1922

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Samuel French, London, 1922

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Comedy of Youth in three acts

Comedy

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