Written as a vehicle for Cowards own acting talents alongside his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, Tonight at 830 is Cowards ambitious series of ten oneact plays which saw him breathe new life into the oneact form. From vaudeville to satire, from farce to intricate comedy of manners, from melodrama to romance, these plays span the full, glorious range of Cowards writing. Peep through your fingers at the chaotic Red Peppers musichall show, witness a bankrupt couple use all Ways and Means to scheme their way out of debt, and break your heart along with Laura in the famous Still Life, the original version of the film Brief Encounter.First performed in London in 1936, the plays perfectly showcase Cowards talents as a playwright, providing a sparkling, fastpaced and remarkably varied selection of theatrical gems. 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 Nol, wherever I go . . . all I hear is "please revive Tonight at 8.30!"All ten plays are collected together into this volume that features both Cowards own preface and an introduction by Barry Day, Coward expert and editor of The Letters of Nol Coward.This new edition of Tonight at 8.30 is published to coincide with English Touring Theatre and the Nuffield Southamptons revival for the first time in the UK since Coward starred in them in 1936.

Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: DD; Weight: 390 g; Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 19

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