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COWARD PLAYS: 3
DESIGN FOR LIVING; CAVALCADE; CONVERSATION PIECE; TONIGHT AT 8.30 (I); STILL LIFE |
| By: |
Noel Coward |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1408177331 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781408177334 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2014 |
| Series: |
World Classics |
| Description: |
The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties. |
| Synopsis: |
The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work fromthe thirties. Design for Living - is about a triangular alliancebetween two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which hewaited to write "until she and he and I had arrived by different roadsin our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all threeplay together with a more or less equal degree of success." Cavalcadewas Coward's most ambitious stage project, set during the Boer War,which cost £30,000 in its day and which includes scenes of the reliefof the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age. Conversation Piece is a musical comedy that Noel wrote for the Parisianstar Yvonne Printemps and includes the song "I'll Follow My SecretHeart". Also in the volume are three short plays including Tonight at 8.30 -Hands Across the Sea, a gentle satire of colonials and London Society;Still Life which became the film Brief Encounter and Fumed Oak a suburbancomedy about a 'worm who turns'. The volume is introduced by SheridanMorley. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Methuen Drama |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |