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Present Laughter was first produced in Blackpool on 20 September 1942, [11] Coward directed and the sets and costumes were designed by Gladys Calthrop. [12] The repertory of the tour also consisted of This Happy Breed and Blithe Spirit; the three were advertised collectively as "Noel Coward in his Play Parade". [13]
Garry Essendine in Present Laughter and Frank Gibbons in This Happy Breed: Haymarket: 1945 Two performances in his own revue, Sigh No More. [n 29] Piccadilly: 1947 Garry Essendine in revival of Present Laughter: Haymarket 1948 Three performances in Tonight at 8.30 (Hands Across the Sea, Shadow Play and Fumed Oak) during US tour. [n 30]
"Present Laughter" is a 1967 British television version of the play of the same name by Noël Coward. It aired as a Play of the Week. Peter O'Toole starred. It was a co-production between Associated Television and O'Toole's own company, Keep Films. [1] It aired in the United States in 1968. [2]
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Coward in 1972. Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
Coward completed the playscript for This Happy Breed (as well as that for Present Laughter) in 1939, in the months before World War II.The producer Binkie Beaumont originally wanted to stage Present Laughter on its own, but Coward insisted that, given the political situation at the time, it should be played alternately with the more sombre This Happy Breed.
Hay Fever is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1924. Its first production was in the West End in 1925 with Marie Tempest as Judith Bliss. A cross between high farce and a comedy of manners , the play is set in an English country house in the 1920s, and deals with the four eccentric members of the Bliss family and their outlandish ...
A company headed by Coward presented the piece along with Present Laughter and This Happy Breed under the collective title of Play Parade, in a 25-week tour from September 1942. Coward played Charles; Joyce Carey, Ruth; Judy Campbell, Elvira; and Beryl Measor, Madame Arcati.