Noël Coward (1899–1973)
Autor/a de Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives: Three Plays
Sobre l'autor
In 1964, when Hay Fever (1925) was placed in the repertory of the newly organized National Theatre, Noel Coward professed to be grateful: "Bless you for admitting that I'm a classic." A week-long series of Coward played on BBC television in 1969; there have been major revivals in London and New mostra'n més York; plays long out of print have been republished in popular collections. At the start of the 1960s, though, Coward's reputation had been at an ebb, as he skirmished with the angry new drama. Coward had enjoyed no big success since Blithe Spirit of 1941. There have been attempts to assimilate the rehabilitated Coward to contemporary drama. Coward himself profited from the new freedom when, in 1965, his Song at Twilight discussed homosexuality, a subject that he had evaded throughout his career. A juvenile prodigy, Coward was by turns actor, director, composer, lyricist, autobiographer, and author of nearly 60 theater pieces. He even wrote screenplays, notably for In Which We Serve (1942) and Brief Encounter (1946). Although he specialized in light comedy, the so-called comedy of manners, he worked in many forms including patriotic spectacle, revue, musical, farce, even the problem play. Hay Fever, Blithe Spirit, and Private Lives (1930) have proved to be the most durable of his comedies, along with nine short plays presented as Tonight at 8:30. In each, characters demonstrate the combination of perpetual role playing, cool hedonism, and energizing self-absorption. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Pirie MacDonald, from the Library of Congress
Sèrie
Obres de Noël Coward
Coward Plays: 3: Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 (i); Still Life (1979) 66 exemplars
Coward Plays: 4: Blithe Spirit; Present Laughter; This Happy Breed; Tonight at 8.30 (ii) (1979) 59 exemplars
Masterworks of the British Cinema: Brief Encounter / Henry V / The Lady Vanishes (1974) — Screenplay — 18 exemplars
PLAY PARADE III. The Queen was in the Parlour, I'll Leave it to You, The Young Idea, Sirocco, The Rat Trap, This was a… (1950) 5 exemplars
I'll See You Again 5 exemplars
En tosset Week-end 4 exemplars
The Battle Of The River Plate/In Which We Serve/We Dive At Dawn — Director — 4 exemplars
The Astonished Heart — Play — 3 exemplars
Noël Coward in New York 3 exemplars
The Noël Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection: Seven BBC Radio Full-Cast Productions (2018) 3 exemplars
Amore e protocollo 3 exemplars
Commedie 3 exemplars
La Primavera di S.Martino 2 exemplars
Bitter sweet, and other plays 2 exemplars
Me And The Girls 2 exemplars
PLAY PARADE VI. Point Valaine, South Sea Bubble, Ace of Clubs, Nude with violin, Waiting in the Wings (1962) 2 exemplars
"Bitter Sweet" Overture 2 exemplars
The Compact Coward 2 exemplars
The Rat Trap 2 exemplars
Noel Coward Medley 1 exemplars
Noel Coward, Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 1 exemplars
Noel Coward, 1899-1973 1 exemplars
The Noel Coward Album 1 exemplars
Sail Away, broadway cast 1 exemplars
Noel Coward, the Great Shows 1 exemplars
The Stately Homes of England 1 exemplars
Sheet music (1) from this Broadway show. Song: I'll Follow My Secret Heart. Words and music by Noel Coward. (1934) 1 exemplars
Bezoek uit de Tropen 1 exemplars
Quadrille 1 exemplars
Private Lives [1976 TV movie] 1 exemplars
Palmen, Pomp und Paukenschlag : Roman 1 exemplars
Mild Oats 1 exemplars
Breve incontro - Spirito allegro 1 exemplars
Design For Rehearsing 1 exemplars
The Book of Comedy Sketches (BENNETT) 1 exemplars
Chelsea Buns 1 exemplars
هذا الجيل المحظوظ 1 exemplars
Noël Coward Sings Noël Coward 1 exemplars
Jij en hij, ik en zij 1 exemplars
Age Cannot Wither 1 exemplars
Sail Away: Piano-Conductor Score 1 exemplars
Short Stories 1 exemplars
Design For Living (Programme) [No 85] 1 exemplars
Primavera di San Martino 1 exemplars
Words and Music 1 exemplars
The Queen Was in the Parlour 1 exemplars
Present laughter : a light comedy in three-acts 1 exemplars
Song At Twilight, A ; Act 1 & 2 1 exemplars
Sail Away (Playbill) [Vol 5 No 45] 1 exemplars
Mad dogs & Englishmen : a comprehensive selection of his finest recordings from the 40s and 50s. 2 CDs 1 exemplars
Legends of the 20th Century 1 exemplars
Bitter Sweet - 1960 Studio Cast - LP 1 exemplars
In which we serve 🎥 1 exemplars
Plays [of] Noël Coward / 4 1 exemplars
Pacific 1860 1 exemplars
Three plays 1 exemplars
What Next 1 exemplars
Journey's End [Words and Music] 1 exemplars
Fairy Whispers [Words and Music] 1 exemplars
Midnight Matinee [Words and Music] 1 exemplars
The Party's Over Now [Words and Music] 1 exemplars
Weary of It All [Set to Music] 1 exemplars
Secret Service [Set to Music] 1 exemplars
Pageant [Sigh No More] 1 exemplars
Woman and Whisky 1 exemplars
Cat's Cradle [The Third Little Show] 1 exemplars
Customs House, Dover 1 exemplars
Weatherwise 1 exemplars
Shop-Girls 1 exemplars
Some Other Private Lives 1 exemplars
Eskapade og andre noveller 1 exemplars
Children's Hour [Words and Music] 1 exemplars
Half-Caste Woman [Cochran's 1931 Revue] 1 exemplars
Noël Coward: His Talks in Australia 1 exemplars
Star Chamber (To-night at 8:30) 1 exemplars
The Swiss Family Whittlebot [London Calling] 1 exemplars
Oranges and Lemons [On with the Dance] 1 exemplars
Class [On with the Dance] 1 exemplars
A Tube Station (The Tube) [This Year of Grace] 1 exemplars
The Order of the Day [This Year of Grace] 1 exemplars
Ignorance is Bliss [This Year of Grace] 1 exemplars
The Lido Beach [This Year of Grace] 1 exemplars
The English Lido [This Year of Grace] 1 exemplars
Rules of Three [This Year of Grace] 1 exemplars
Law and Order [This Year of Grace] 1 exemplars
Love, Life and Laughter [This Year of Grace] 1 exemplars
Glamorous Nights 1 exemplars
The Wooden Madonna 1 exemplars
La encantadora familia Bliss 1 exemplars
The Songs of Noël Coward 1 exemplars
Centenary Celebration 1 exemplars
The Noel Coward Collection: Disc 3 1 exemplars
A Song at Twilight 1 exemplars
Tonight at 8.30, Volume I 1 exemplars
Ballet Music of Noël Coward 1 exemplars
Noël/Cole "Let's do it!" original cast recording 1 exemplars
Min egen Cavalcade 1 exemplars
Koninklijk bezoek 1 exemplars
On Air: Rare Unknown Broadcasts 1944-48 1 exemplars
Noël Coward's New Musical Comedy: Sail Away 1 exemplars
Eloquence 1 exemplars
Traveler's Joy 1 exemplars
Ashes Of Roses 1 exemplars
Aunt Tittie 1 exemplars
Cheap Excursion 1 exemplars
The Kindness Of Mrs. Radcliffe 1 exemplars
Nature Study 1 exemplars
A Richer Dust 1 exemplars
Mr. And Mrs. Edgehill 1 exemplars
Stop Me If You've Heard It 1 exemplars
Mrs. Capper's Birthday 1 exemplars
Solali 1 exemplars
Mrs. Ebony 1 exemplars
The Plays of Noël Coward: First Series (Sirocco, Home Chat, The Queen Was in the Parlour) (1928) 1 exemplars
I wonder what happened to him. Vol. 4 1944-1951 1 exemplars
La dolce intimità 1 exemplars
Intermezzo 1 exemplars
Penny Dreadful 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 552 exemplars
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Col·laborador — 96 exemplars
Twenty One-Act Plays: An Anthology for Amateur Performing Groups (1978) — Col·laborador — 36 exemplars
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1960) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
David Lean Directs Noël Coward: In Which We Serve / This Happy Breed / Blithe Spirit / Brief Encounter (2012) 28 exemplars
Matty — Introducció — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Coward, Noël
- Nom oficial
- Coward, Noël Peirce
- Data de naixement
- 1899-12-16
- Data de defunció
- 1973-03-26
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Firefly Estate Grounds Montego Bay, Saint James, Jamaica
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Teddington-on-Thames, Middlesex, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Firefly, Jamaica
- Causa de la mort
- heart failure
- Llocs de residència
- Middlesex, England
Jamaica - Professions
- actor
playwright
composer
lyricist - Relacions
- Payn, Graham (partner)
Lesley, Cole (friend)
de Casalis, Jeanne (friend) - Premis i honors
- Honorary Academy Award (1943)
Knight Bachelor (1970)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement (1970)
Songwriters Hall of Fame (1988)
Membres
Ressenyes
This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft. (fonte Imdb)
Coward’s play, written in 1939 and first produced in 1942 in the United Kingdom, and in 1946 in the United States is a hugely funny comedy of manners surround the domestic life of a famous stage actor, a rather wicked self-portrait of the author surrounded by a circle of friends and business partners, and plagued by a few ill-behaved fans. The first word of the title is pronounced as a verb, and assuredly has that effect when presented to an audience.
This 2017 edition of the acting script is introduced by Moritz von Stuelpnagal the director of the Broadway production that opened in April 2017, so it’s to be presumed that the technical details: stage directions, props lists, and stage design are based on that production.… (més)
This 2017 edition of the acting script is introduced by Moritz von Stuelpnagal the director of the Broadway production that opened in April 2017, so it’s to be presumed that the technical details: stage directions, props lists, and stage design are based on that production.… (més)
3.5*
While I enjoyed this full cast audiobook of the play, I didn't find it as funny as I expected. Perhaps it needed the visual aspect - I will have to see if I can find a video or film of this online somewhere.
While I enjoyed this full cast audiobook of the play, I didn't find it as funny as I expected. Perhaps it needed the visual aspect - I will have to see if I can find a video or film of this online somewhere.
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- Obres
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- Membres
- 4,860
- Popularitat
- #5,169
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 66
- ISBN
- 348
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 18
This was a lot of fun. I hope to be able to see a live production of it someday.