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Noel Coward
Edgar Small is not the first actor who became an agent, but he may be the first agent who returned to acting after spending 40 years as a producer and…
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Oliver Soden
A sparkling, revelatory new biography by the award-winning author of Michael Tippett celebrates Noel Coward as a pioneer in life, art and sexuality
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Coward Noel
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Primarily a playwright and actor, Coward was also an incredible composer and these 60 examples show why he is still loved to this day. He delivers all of the songs…
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Professor Russell Jackson
This is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition and reception of some of Noel Coward's most significant plays. It examines his…
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Philip Hoare
To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter and filmmaker Noel Coward was the very personification of wit, glamour and elegance. This biography was written with unprecedented access to the private papers…
Songs such as A Room with a View, The Stately Homes of England, Mad Dogs and Englishmen and Mrs Worthington are known and sung the world over. This edition gathers…
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Barry Day
In Coward on Film The Cinema of Nol Coward, author Barry Day documents every film based on Cowards work and/or in which he appeared. The result is an astounding list…
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Since his death in 1973, the work of the legendary playwright and composer Noel Coward has remained in constant revival around the world. This archive of his HMV recordings focusses…
Written in 1841, Blithe Spirit remained the longest-running comedy in the history of the British theatre. Plotted around the central role of a spirit medium Madame Arcati, this play is…
The second volume in the Coward Collection, including Private Lives, Bitter-Sweet, The Marquise and Post-Mortem.
The third volume of Coward’s plays contains some of his best work from the thirties.
Volume Four of Noel Coward’s plays contains a selection of Coward’s plays from the thirties and forties.
The fifth volume in the Coward Collection, containing Coward’s best work from the last two decades of his life.
This one-volume editions contains the complete collection of Coward’s short stories spanning fifty years of his life. This special edition is published to mark the centenary of Noel Coward’s birth.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Noel Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue sketch, short and often topical or satirical stage pieces. This volume collects Coward’s best and…
The Seventh Coward volume, including four pieces from the Tonight at 8.30 sequence.
Written in 1926 and originally entitled Ritz Bar, Semi-Monde was considered too daring for its time. A visually daring comedy that provides a metaphor for Coward’s own sexuality.
Elyot and Amanda, a passionate but feuding couple was divorced. But, on the first night of their honeymoons with their new partners, they find that they are all staying in…
Noel Coward’s glorious wit and dramatic precision combine to form his 1930s masterpiece about modern romance. Private Lives continues to be one of his most performed and read works.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
The second part of the autobiography of one of the most astonishing characters in British theatrical history.
Terribly Intimate Portraits, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha…
I am shirking off the chains that have shackled me for so long - I have suddenly come to realise that I am a woman - a living, passionate, pulsating…
Left a widow with five grown up children, Mrs. Dermot turns to brother Dan for help. Uncle Dan arrives to find an idle family ready to live on his money…
This Happy Breed covers twenty years in the life of the Frank and Ethel Bibbons and their children, from the end of World War I to the beginning of World…
One of the Tonight At 8:30 series, produced in London and New York. In the middle class drawing room of amiable and hard working Henry Gow passes most of the…
Performed with Shadows of the Evening in London with Coward, Lilli Palmer and Irene Worth, this view of the haute monde is tempered by having the man and wife Americans…
Everything that wealthy London society had to offer a properly brought-up girl lay at the feet of little Sarah Millick in 1875; but she fell so desperately in love with…
Edward Churt is a successful painter. His wife Carol has a ‘vivid personality composed of a minimum of intellect and a maximum of sex’. Increasingly aware of her infidelity, Edward…
The sixth volume in the Coward Collection, including Semi-Monde.
The roaring twenties. A world in flux. The magnetic Florence Lancaster draws people to her like moths to a flame. But when her son Nicky arrives home from Paris with…
Comedy / 4m, 14f / Int. Coward’s tribute to theatre is set in a retirement home for actresses, all former stars. Jealousies abound, especially between Lotta and another who was…
Brilliant painter Paul Sorodin dies; indecently close to deaths heels come Sorodins relatives, his business manager and others who, their grief not entirely untinged with greed, anxiously await the reading…
This bittersweet comedy is the story of a cosmopolitan author caught in his declining years between two women, one being his wife of convenience for twenty years, the other, one…
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 in harmless, infatuated…
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One of the Tonight at 8:30 series produced in London and New York. In psychiatrist Christian Faber’s drawing room sits his weeping wife and…
Comedy / Characters: 6 male, 3 femaleScenery: Interior
One of the Tonight At 8:30 series produced in London and New York. Lady Gilpin (Piggie) is so busy with social duties…
Comedy Chararcters: 5 male, 4 female Interior set
One of the Tonight at 8:30 series produced in London and New York. In a bedroom in Mrs. Lloyd Ransome’s fabulous villa…
Hay Fever is a comic play written by Noel Coward in 1924 and first produced in 1925. A cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, the play is…
