{"product_id":"nol-coward-on-and-in-theatre-9780525657958","title":"Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNoël Coward on (and in) Theatre\u003c\/strong\u003e by Coward, Noël. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780525657958.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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 Cowards dazzling life in it.\n\nThe book Noël Coward wanted, promised, threatened to write—and never did.\n\nIncluding 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.\n\nCoward 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.\n\nAnd on the plays he wrote, among them: The Vortex; Hay Fever; Private Lives; Design For Living; Blithe Spirit.\nHere 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. . . .\n\nHis 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. . . .\n\nAnd 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.\n\nIngeniously, deftly compiled, edited, and annotated by Barry Day, Coward authority and editor of The Noёl Coward Reader and The Letters of Noёl Coward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44979582271541,"sku":"ByrdShop_0525657959","price":33.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780525657958_0ff06d76-a0f3-425c-921f-bfb95736b142.jpg?v=1778894201","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/nol-coward-on-and-in-theatre-9780525657958","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}