Coward Plays: Nine

Noël Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933) and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and In Which We Serve (1942). In the fifties he began a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel (Pomp and Circumstance, 1960), two volumes of autobiography and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964) and Bon Voyage (1967). He was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica. Barry Day, OBE, is the author or editor of numerous books and plays with an emphasis on theatre - particularly musical theatre. He has published many volumes on the work of Noël Coward including The Letters of Noël Coward, The Noël Coward Reader and The Complete Verse of Noël Coward. He has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Westminster.

Introduction by Barry Day
Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered (1940)
Long Island Sound (1947)
Volcano (1957)
Age Cannot Wither (1967)
Design for Rehearsing (1933)