Noël Coward on (and in) theatre / edited and with commentary by Barry Day.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Day, Barry, editor, writer of commentary.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coward, Noël, 1899-1973--Criticism and interpretation.

Coward, Noël.

Coward, Noël, 1899-1973--Knowledge and learning--Theater.

Coward, Noël, 1899-1973.

Theater.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Noel Coward on theatre was as dazzling and entertaining as were his masterful plays and lyrics. Here his ideas and opinions on the subject are brilliantly brought together in an extraordinary collection of commentary, lyrics, essays, and asides on everything having to do with the theatre and Coward's dazzling life in it. The book Noel Coward wanted, promised, threatened to write--and never did. As this vastly entertaining and lively book confirms, Coward's opinions were as sharp and entertaining as his plays and his lyrics. Including essays, interviews, diary entries, verse, his views on his fellow playwrights- "My Colleague Will," Shaw, Wilde, Chekhov, Barrie, Maugham, Eliot, Osborne, Albee, Beckett, Miller, Williams, Rattigan, Pinter, and Shaffer. On the critics--many of whom irritated him over the years but came to admire him- James Agate, Alexander Woollcott, Graham Greene, Kenneth Tynan among them. On the plays he wrote, among them- The Vortex; Hay Fever; Private Lives; Design For Living; Blithe Spirit. The producers who crossed his path- Andre Charlot, C. B. Cochran, Binkie Beaumont. And the actors in the Coward galaxy- John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Gertrude Lawrence, the Lunts, etc.... His views on the art of acting- auditions, rehearsals, learning the lines, clarity of delivery, timing, control, range, stage fright, fans, theater audiences, revivals, comedy, "the Method," plays with a "message," taste, construction, "Star Quality," etc.... His experience in, and thoughts on- revue, cabaret, television, and musical theater, Bitter Sweet, Conversation Piece, Pacific 1860, After the Ball, Ace of Clubs, Sail Away, The Girl Who Came to Supper, Words and Music, This Year of Grace, London Calling! ... and much more. Ingeniously, deftly compiled, edited, and annotated by Barry Day, Coward authority and editor of The No?l Coward Reader and The Letters of No?l Coward .

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 01, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Noël Coward on (and in) theatre.

ISBN:

9780525657965

0525657967

Publisher Number:

40030841751

Access Restriction:

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