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Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573694219
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (942 download)
Download or read book Noel and Gertie written by Noel Coward and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheridan Morley
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The PRIVATE LIVES OF NOËL AND GERTIE: A Talent To Amuse, A Bright Particular Star written by Sheridan Morley and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheridan Morley's classic biographies of Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence, revised and updated for the Centenary Year.
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408191423
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Star Quality written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coward's 'forgotten' play, published to tie in with its world premiere. In his wickedly funny final play, NöeI Coward takes us behind the scenes of a new West End production. Conjuring up an authentic backstage world of talent and treachery, Coward creates a gallery of unforgettable characters; temperamental leading lady, ruthless director, jaded old troupers and, caught somewhere between them all, innocent young playwright. From tentative first rehearsal to triumphant opening night, the clash of egos becomes increasingly and hilariously bloody. But what emerges from the mayhem is a startling evocation of that most elusive gift of all - star quality. This edition, adapted by Chris Luscombe and introduced by Sheridan Morley, is published to coincide with the play's West End premiere in October 2001.
Author : Graham Payn
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557832474
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (324 download)
Download or read book My Life with Noel Coward written by Graham Payn and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1996-10-31 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other men made fabulous careers out of the opportunities Noel Coward declined. But Coward's inner compass charted him on his own course to greatness. And when he couldn't find the destination on his maps, he invented Samolo, his own South Sea island complete with its own indigenous rituals and customs. And of course, we revisit Coward's worlds constantly in revivals of his classic plays, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Tonight at 8:30, Design for Living and Blithe Spirit. This is the definitive memoir of the private Noel Coward by the only man with the compassionate insight and first-hand experience to write it. Graham Payn, star of many of Coward's shows, shared the Master's professional and private life for thirty years. When Coward kept the rest of the world at bay, Payn remained at his side as confidant and friend. No one else was as privy to Coward's doubts and dreams.
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525657967
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre written by Noël Coward and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Noёl Coward Reader and The Letters of Noёl Coward.
Author : Barry Day
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810853584
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Coward on Film written by Barry Day and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Coward on Film: The Cinema of Noël Coward, author Barry Day documents every film based on Coward's work and/or in which he appeared. The result is an astounding list of film credits, including--on occasion--that of composer. Judged on his contribution to cinema alone, Noël Coward would have left a legacy matched by very few. With this detailed chronicle--which includes quotes from Coward himself and a complete filmography--Coward on Film stands as a fitting tribute to that legacy.
Author : Tracy Baines
Publisher : Boldwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1835619932
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Seaside Girls 1-3 written by Tracy Baines and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the heartwarming Seaside Girls saga series from Tracy Baines 'Terrific - beautifully written. The book twinkles. A well-crafted and satisfying story' Maisie Thomas ‘A pleasure from start to finish’ Glenda Young This boxset contains books 1-3 in the uplifting Seaside Girls series The Seaside Girls Hopes and Dreams for The Seaside Girls A New Year for The Seaside Girls The Seaside Girls Cleethorpes, 1939 With the country teetering on the brink of war everyone faces an uncertain future. Destitute after the tragic death of her father, aspiring singer Jessie Delaney and her family have no choice other than to accept the charity of relatives to ensure a roof over their heads. Through her father’s connections Jessie finds work as a Variety Girl in a new show at the Empire in Cleethorpes, a small seaside theatre on the east coast. But taking the job means flying solo and leaving her family and her sweetheart, Harry behind. Friendships are forged but will the glamour of show business lose its shine without those she loves close by? Hopes and Dreams for The Seaside Girls Struggling to keep their spirits up as the reality of war hits home and theatres are closed, friends Jessie Delaney and Frances O’Leary search for work to see them through until they can sing and dance again. Frances, once upon a time followed her dreams of becoming a dancer but soon found herself with a broken heart and a precious secret when her lover abandoned her. Keeping her secret from her friends grows more difficult as time passes and their friendship grows.. But with her lover returning to England from a successful tour of America, how long will it be before the truth comes to light? Can the Seaside Girls pull together to help each other through the tough times or will their secrets tear them apart? A New Year for The Seaside Girls Cleethorpes, 1940 As the new year dawns the show at the Empire comes to an end and it’s time for the girls to move on. Years of struggle are over for Frances O’Leary when Johnny Randolph returns to make things right for her and their daughter. Do they have a chance of happiness? Of being a family after so long? But their good fortune is fraught with complications when sister Ruby Randolph decides to have her last hurrah, leaving a trail of devastation in her wake. Jessie Delaney is afraid to follow her dreams and leave those she loves behind – can she really have it all? All the seaside girls have their own battles to fight. And while they figure things out it’s time for them to do their bit for the war and keep Britain smiling.
Author : Elliot James
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800465912
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Happiness written by Elliot James and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Actors’ Orphanage was a home for the abandoned children of struggling or incapacitated Actors. In 1934 it was a harsh and brutal institution. Meanwhile however, the playwright and cultural phenomenon, Noël Coward, was looking for more meaning in his life. After success after success, he would always ask... “What now?”
Author : Bailey Bradford
Publisher : Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN 13 : 1784300276
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Hide written by Bailey Bradford and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you think you'll never fit it, never be whole, love can show you a truth you've never seen. Adal has been abused all of his life. The only person who cared for him was his brother, Steven. Without him, Adal would have been killed long ago. After he and Steven are sent on a mission for their twisted father, they learn they've been pawns in an evil plot all along. And that their father has been slowly killing them, one pill at a time. Steven leaves Adal to seek revenge and secure safety for them in the world. Adal is astounded to find out he has a mate. A halfbreed like him shouldn't have anyone to love, should he? Dorso Rodriguez doesn't know what hit him, literally or figuratively. A fun-loving guy, he wakes up with a knot on his head and a strange, sexy, scarred man who's scared and defiant and intriguing. Together they embark on a journey to defeat the demons from Adal's past.
Author : Bailey Bradford
Publisher : Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN 13 : 0857156608
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Reluctance written by Bailey Bradford and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What starts out as a simple assignment becomes everything Keegan ever feared, and everything he ever wanted. Keegan has served Marcus, his Alpha Anax, to the best of his abilities. After the deaths of several guards a year ago, however, Keegan is afraid he's going to unravel at the seams. His worry over keeping everyone safe robs him of sleep and any hope of peace. And people are noticing. Members of the guards he is captain of think he needs to get laid, or at least remember how to laugh. Keegan thinks they need to learn that there are boundaries they shouldn't cross with him. When he learns of a security breach by Marcus' brother Aidan, exposing a flaw in the safety measures Keegan has set in place, Keegan is desperate to find someone to make sure the electronics at the shifter compound are break-in proof. Marcus and Nathan are worried about Keegan. When they find someone to do the job Keegan needs done, they make sure Keegan is the one to take a short trip to Brazil to pick up the security expert, Olin. But when Olin and Keegan meet, they snap and snarl at each other while fighting the mating bond that keeps flaring between them. Then something happens that forces them both to depend on each other, and if they're lucky enough, they might even survive the ordeal. But first they'll have to escape their would-be captors, and make it through the rainforest, where strange things are bound to happen.
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307537420
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Noel Coward written by Noël Coward and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated and annotated, this first and definitive collection of letters to and from the great English playwright provides a divine portrait of an age, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond. "Superb.... The portrait of a complex, charming, driven, serious and, frankly, courageous artist." —The Wall Street Journal The incomparable Noël Coward loved to correspond with friends, enemies, the famous and infamous, the talented and the powerful, including Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia, Somerset Maugham, and many more. Granted unlimited access to the Coward archive, Barry Day presents many never-published letters and has unearthed new, startling evidence of Coward's wartime work as a spy. Along with 191 rare photographs, these letters bring to life the people and events that shaped the twentieth century—and a remarkable man who made his own indelible mark at the heart of it.
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140817734X
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Coward Plays: 4 written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Four of Noël Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's plays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit, a comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely the moment when bombs were bringing it to Britain "I shall ever be grateful, for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war." The play was for years the longest-running comedy in the history of British theatre. Present Laughter follows the life of Garry Essendine, a world-weary, middle-aged projection of the dilettante, debonair persona - self-obsessed and dressing-gowned who struts through the play like an educated peacock. It is a comedy about the 'theatricals' that Noël best knew and loved, and was originally a star vehicle for himself. It is the closest to an autobiographical play that Coward ever wrote. This Happy Breed is a saga of a lower middle-class family; and three shorter pieces fromTonight at 8.30 - is a farce set in the South of France, and serves as an oblique tribute to Frederick Lonsdale; The Astonished Heart is about the decay of a psychiatrist's mind through personal sexual obsession. Red Peppers, which closes the volume, was a cynical tribute to the lost music halls of the First World War.
Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472503511
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Tonight At 8.30 written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a vehicle for Coward's own acting talents alongside his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, Tonight at 8:30 is Coward's ambitious series of ten one-act plays which saw him breathe new life into the one-act form. First performed in London in 1936, the plays perfectly showcase Coward's talents as a playwright, providing a sparkling, fast-paced and remarkably varied selection of theatrical gems. All ten plays are collected together into this volume that features both Coward's own preface and an introduction by Barry Day, editor of The Letters of Nöel Coward. Coward wrote of the first series of three plays with characteristic delight: 'They are all brilliantly written, exquisitely directed, and I am bewitching in all of them.' Gertrude Lawrence wrote to Coward in 1947, 'Dearest Noël, wherever I go . . . all I hear is "Please revive Tonight at 8.30!"' 'Tonight at 8.30 surprises as much as it delights as, in some of the plays, Coward takes us to a world far removed from that of the wealth and glamour of the debonair London socialites who dominated much of his earlier work. But The Master's polish and sparkle are never far away as music and song intertwine with the wit and insight of one of our greatest ever playwrights.' Chichester Festival Theatre, 2006.
Author : Sheridan Morley
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gertrude Lawrence, a Biography written by Sheridan Morley and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1981 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hiram Ed Taylor
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0738808598
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Louisiana Plays written by Hiram Ed Taylor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOUISIANA PLAYS by Hiram Ed Taylor is a collection of 4 plays developed in workshops or staged readings at the New Orleans Theatre Experiments Lab, a group dedicated to creating new works about Louisiana. The first play, PROPHECY a comedy about the future of mankind was given two staged readings before an audience at the Contemporary Arts Center. The second play SAVAGE PRIDE, a ghost play about survival, was also given a reading at the CAC. The third a musical about sex, BOURBON STREET had 5 songs performed at the DramaRama Festival at the CAC and then a staged presentation at LePetit Theatre du Vieux Carre. The last musical about life after death, HEAVENS BAR was presented at the Firehouse Theatre in Mobile, Alabama. Taken as a group they represent a body of work by Mr. Taylor over the past 8 years. All four scripts are comedy, although they border on serious themes and are dramatic and tragic in places. Louisiana serves as a place where life and human folly are examined in comic detail. There is an abundance of terrific roles for women in each play; especially for older actresses over 40. They seem to represent the MotherGoddess who controls the flow of the script through the mess the men characters make of their lives. Wife, mother, fortune teller, heavenly bartender (god) or whore, they are the power in each script. The scripts may not seen commercial because of their content and language. Musicals about sex with S&M numbers and Homosexuality presented as normal every day events are hard to get produced in current regional theaters concerned with their grants being cut because of the current government standards. Although Southern Baptist audiences in Mobile, Alabama loved HEAVENS BAR, script readers in other parts of the country have decided it is too much about religion for their theaters to take a chance on possibly offending someones beliefs. So, we have chosen to publish the plays as written without care who they may outrage. They are bold and they are daring and isnt that what good theater is suppose to be about? They are also highly theatrical and deserve to be on a stage performed live for an audience. But, until that time, here they are in print.
Author : Bailey Bradford
Publisher : Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN 13 : 1839430478
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Mossy Glenn Ranch: Part Two written by Bailey Bradford and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mossy Glenn Ranch: Part Two &– a box set 5 - Riding and Regrets Jody Bates just wanted to fit in and forget his past, but you can't escape everything. 6 - Broncs and Bullies Frankie never let anyone close, until Duke refused to give up on him. 7 - Hay and Heartbreak There's more than one way to imprison a man. 8 - Vaqueros and Vigilance What starts out as a one-night stand ends up changing two men forever. The Mossy Glenn Ranch used to be a successful spread, but two demented owners in a row put an end to that. Although it was sold out from underneath them, three siblings re-purchase as much of the property as they can, and hire three men, Carlos, Will and Troy from Where There's a Will, to bring the ranch back to the productive state it once was in. Will convinces them to make the ranch a haven for those cowboys and cowgirls who can't be themselves on other ranches. He wants a home for not only him and his men, but he wants a family for them, too. The different people who live and work at the ranch bring something special to it. Their lives are as twined together as their stories.
Author : Joanna Lumley
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297865005
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Absolutely written by Joanna Lumley and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mischievous and measured, Joanna Lumley gives us a remarkable portrait of a groovy life' The Times 'Captures perfectly the mixture of poshness and larkiness that has captivated Joanna Lumley's audiences... thoughtful and amusing' Daily Mail 'An actress with an extraordinarily varied life... [a] gloriously illustrated, entertaining memoir' Woman & Home 'Immensely fun' Evening Standard Joanna Lumley is one of Britain's undisputed national treasures, who has lived many lives: a single mum; a voiceover artist; a TV presenter; an author; a former model and Bond girl; a human rights activist for Survival International and the Gurkha Justice Campaign; and as an iconic, award-winning actor, best known for her roles in timeless shows like Absolutely Fabulous and The New Avengers. In Absolutely, Joanna tells her story, from the very beginning up until the present day, in her own glamorous, wickedly funny style. 'Lumley has done it all, from sex kitten and TV star to activist for the Gurkhas. Read about it here.' Independent 'Joanna Lumley is, for many, something of a national treasure' Daily Express 'She writes beautifully' Daily Telegraph 'She's the glamorous age-defying star of stage and screen, who is famous as Patsy from Ab Fab yet a passionate human rights campaigner. But as her autobiography reveals, Joana's life has seen her fight through poverty and being a single mum' Best
