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Noël Coward on theatre was as dazzling and entertaining as 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 Noël Coward wanted promised threatened to write and never did. 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. Coward 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. And on the plays he wrote among them: The Vortex Hay Fever Private Lives Design For Living Blithe Spirit. Here is the Master on the producers who crossed his path: André 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. . . . And last but Noël Coward least 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.

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