{"product_id":"book-f7sx","title":"Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoël 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book Noël Coward wanted, promised, threatened to write—and never did.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIncluding 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCoward 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnd on the plays he wrote, among them: \u003ci\u003eThe Vortex; Hay Fever; Private Lives; Design For Living; Blithe Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere 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. . . .\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHis 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. . . .\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnd last, but Noël Coward least, his experience in, and thoughts on: revue, cabaret, television, and musical theater, \u003ci\u003eBitter 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!\u003c\/i\u003e . . . and much more.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIngeniously, deftly compiled, edited, and annotated by Barry Day, Coward authority and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Noёl Coward Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Noёl Coward\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCover photograph: © 2021 The Estate of Edward Steichen \/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49326208221488,"sku":"BDf7sx","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/411925-f7sx-Square.jpg?v=1733612723","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-f7sx","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}