Noël Coward

Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Day, Barry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From "the master" of sophisticated, daring comedy; actor, playwright, songwriter, composer, director, whose light, sharp wit shaped, seduced, (at times) shocked, and enchanted the English and American stage for half a century--his thoughts, lyrics, essays, commentary, asides on everything having to do with the theatre and his dazzling life in it. The book Noel Coward wanted, promised, threatened to write--and never did . . . His essays, interviews, diary entries, lyrics, 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 . . . 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 . . . On the plays he wrote, among them: The Vortex; Hay Fever; Private Lives; Design For Living; Blithe Spirit . . . 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. . . . 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780525657965
• Artikelnr.: 58569797

Autorenporträt

BARRY DAY was born in England and received his M.A. from Balliol College, Oxford. He has written and produced plays and musical revues showcasing the work of Noël Coward, the Lunts, Oscar Wilde, and others. Day is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Trustee of the Noёl Coward Foundation and was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

Rezensionen

A thorough, useful, and handsomely produced compendium of [Coward s] extensive writing on the medium through which he most frequently and most effectively expressed himself . . . in Day s pages, Coward tells us that theater is not a place for ideas, for probing motive, for engaging with the dark or the barely understood in human life it is diversion, pure and simple. Simon Callow, Airmail

[Coward s] dual role equal parts revolutionary and reactionary is handsomely illuminated in Barry Day s Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre . . . Throughout, he addresses his subject with clear-eyed affection . . . compelling . . . a many-pieced mosaic of a man of many pieces. Brad Leithauser, Wall Street Journal

An illuminating collection of anecdotes, encomiums, and gripes . . . Theater fans will savor this portrait of a confident artist ( I am probably the best comedian alive ) whose wit wasn t confined to the stage . . . An entertaining peek behind the curtain at 60 years inthe theater. Kirkus

Sparkling . . . Day s selections showcase Coward s dazzling prose, which is always lively, urbane, and stocked with well-aimed zingers . . . Theater pros and fans alike will revel in Coward s incisive, compulsively readable takes on showbiz. Publishers Weekly