Coward Plays: 3: Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 9i); Still Life (World Classics) (Vol 3)

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Book
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ISBN 10
0413461009 
ISBN 13
9780413461001 
Category
Scripts  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1979 
Pages
352 
Description
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 Noël 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. - from Amzon 
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