Still Life by Noel Coward
Characters: 6 male 5 female
Interior Set
One of the Tonight at 8:30 series a success in London and New York. The movie Brief Encounter was based on this play. In a suburban rail station Dr. Harvey removes a cinder from Laura's eye and they fall in love. Subsequent weekly meetings over tea scenes debating respectability or love and some sentimental moments transpire before they decide they must part forever. He is accepting a faraway post and she must return to a circumspect
Noel Coward was a professional actor by the age of 10. In 1920, he starred in his own play, I'll Leave it to You. His first major hit was The Vortex, and his success continued throughout the 1920s and 1930s with plays including Hay Fever, Private Lives, and Design for Living. During World War II, he wrote the patriotic screenplay In Which We Serve, for which he won an Oscar, as well as scripting the classic film Brief Encounter and entertaining the nation with the black comedy Blithe Spirit. After the war, Coward added a new string to his bow as a cabaret singer, as well as continuing to write musicals and plays. In all, Coward wrote 40 plays, 300 songs, and numerous poems, short stories, and films. He was knighted in 1970, and died in Jamaica in 1973.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780573624902 |
| ISBN 10 | 0573624909 |
| Title | Still Life |
| Author | Noel Coward |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Samuel French, Inc. |
| Year published | 2011-04-25 |
| Number of pages | 54 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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