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Present Laughter
Series: Modern Classics
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Premiered during the early Second World War, the play offers a poignant reflection on fame, desire, and social change, maintaining its status as one of Noël Coward's most celebrated works.
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Ideal for readers interested in classic theatre, British drama, and incisive explorations of celebrity life during a pivotal historical period.
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"An honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos." - The Hollywood Reporter
At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs - his line of harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanours is discovered... and all hell breaks loose.
Noël Coward's Present Laughter premiered in the early years of the Second World War just as such privileged lives were threatened with fundamental social change, and remains one of the playwright's most enduring hits.
This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Coward's death and features a new introduction by Russell Jackson.
Series: Modern Classics
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350354029
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 June 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Contributors:
- Introduction by Professor Russell Jackson
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 124.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 141g
Pages: 128
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About the Author
Noël Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933) and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and In Which We Serve (1942). In the fifties he began a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel (Pomp and Circumstance, 1960), two volumes of autobiography and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964) and Bon Voyage (1967). He was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.
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