Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
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;...
by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
'The actual facts are so simple. I love you. You love me. You love Otto. I love Otto. Otto loves you. Otto loves me. There now! Start to unravel from there.'
Design for Living is a wickedly witty dark romantic comedy by Noel Coward. Initially banned in the UK, this provocative play portrays...
by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
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 woman – it never occurred to me before.
Janet Ebony and her best friend, Peter Chelsworth, are innocently sharing a sleeping compartment...
by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The first single edition of Noël Coward's most controversial play.
"Only
in Semi-Monde does Coward find a successful metaphor for the sexual
complications that lie behind his posturing. Semi-Monde is easily the
most visually daring of his comedies, and the most intellectually
startling...
by Noël Coward, Emma Rice
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Noël Coward's Brief Encounter is remembered as one of the most haunting love stories on screen ever. Drawing on the characteristic wit and musicality of Kneehigh, Emma Rice, former Joint Artistic Director of the Company, has adapted Coward's classic 1945 screenplay, and the one-act play Still Life...
Coward Plays: 2
Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and
versatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s.
The volume contains
his best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit when
it was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and repartee
have ensured...
by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
A single-volume edition of one of Coward's masterpieces, published to tie in with major Donmar Warehouse production in December 2002
In The Vortex, Coward explores the darker side of the Cocktail Party set. Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and shattered relationships are minutely observed in...
by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In the 1920s and 1930s Noël Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue sketch - short and often topical or satirical stage pieces, many of which were a lead-in to his famous songs. He wrote these sketches for the top revues of the 1920s and 1930s, including London Calling! (1923) and Cochrane's...
Coward Plays: 5
Relative Values; Look After Lulu; Waiting in the Wings; Suite in Three Keys
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life,
this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in
1951-2, Look After Lulu (1959), his perennially popular Feydeau
adaptation, Waiting in the Wings (1960), a bravura piece set in a home
for retired actresses, and...
by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
This volume brings together Coward's celebrated verse, from snappy epigrams to seven-hundred-line short stories such as 'P&O 1930' and 'Not Yet the Dodo'; from moving war-time encounters to satirical barbs at familiar Coward targets; and from personal reminiscences to occasional verse such as...
Coward Plays: 3
Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 (i); Still Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from
the thirties.
Design for Living - is about a triangular alliance
between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which he
waited to write "until she and he and I had arrived by different roads
in our careers...
Coward Plays: 8
I'll Leave it to You; The Young Idea; This Was a Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
The eighth volume in the Coward Collection includes I'll
Leave It To You and The Young Idea, the first of Coward's plays ever to
be produced. These were, as he said, "enthusiastically acclaimed by the
critics and ran five weeks and eight weeks respectively. In both of
them I appeared with the...
Coward Plays: 7
Quadrille; 'Peace in Our Time'; Tonight at 8.30 (iii)
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The Seventh volume in the Coward Collection. On Quadrille: "Miss Fontanne plays the madcap Marchioness with the
crackle and sheen of a five-pound note. Her eyes mock marvelously, her
voice cuts like a knife into a wedding cake, and the scene in Act
Three, on the eve of her elopement with Mr....
Not Black and White
Category B, Seize the Day, Detaining Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Not Black and White comprises of three new plays which examine the state of modern day Britain from the perspective of three leading black contemporary playwrights. Roy Williams, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Bola Agbaje tackle the prison system, the mayoralty and immigration in their respective plays.
Category...