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Still Life is a short play in five scenes by Noël Coward, one of ten plays that make up Tonight at 8.30, a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. [ n 1 ] One-act plays were unfashionable in the 1920s and 30s, but Coward was fond of the genre and conceived the idea of a set of short pieces to be played across several evenings.
Coward spelled his first name with the diæresis ("I didn't put the dots over the 'e' in Noël. The language did. Otherwise it's not Noël but Nool!"). [150] The press and many book publishers failed to follow suit, and his name was printed as 'Noel' in The Times, The Observer and other contemporary newspapers and books. [n 12]
Coward adapted Still Life for the screen as Brief Encounter in 1945. [37] The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. [37] For a 1952 film, Meet Me Tonight (called Tonight at 8:30 in the US), directed by Anthony Pelissier, Coward adapted Ways and Means, Red Peppers and Fumed Oak. [38]
As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back on the life of the trailblazing playwright with ‘a talent to amuse’
Coward wrote more than three hundred songs. The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" (from Words and Music) as Coward's most popular song, followed, in order, by: "
English playwright, composer and actor extraordinaire Noël Coward left behind a rich legacy when he died back in 1973, including hundreds of songs, plays, poems and short stories. One of his most ...
Still Life (play) Suite in Three Keys; T. This Happy Breed; This Was a Man; Tonight at 8.30; V. The Vortex; W. Waiting in the Wings (play) Ways and Means (Coward play)
A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter. Still Life, The Still Life, or Still Lives may also refer to: Category:Still life paintings; Still Life (Rufino Tamayo), a 1954 mural by Rufino Tamayo; Still life photography; Still life (cellular automaton), an unchanging pattern in a cellular automaton