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The Vortex de Noël Coward

The Vortex: Modern Classics

Autor Noël Coward
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 dec 2002
A single-volume edition of one of Coward's masterpieces, published to tie in with major Donmar Warehouse production in December 2002In The Vortex, Coward explores the darker side of the Cocktail Party set. Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and shattered relationships are minutely observed in this disturbing, early piece from a playwright whose sharp eye was more usually turned towards the light.This first ever single-volume edition of this frequently revived Coward play ties in with the major revival directed by Michael Grandage, starring Francesca Annis and Chiwetel Ejiofor and Indira Varma at London's Donmar Warehouse."Here is a piece which is the dernier cri in the theatrical mode, un peu shocking perhaps, but no less popular on that account" James Agate
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780413773098
ISBN-10: 0413773094
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

All the anxiety of the early 1920s, post-war twitchiness glossed by martinis and mannered cigarettes, is caught in Noel Coward's The Vortex. His central characters are like specks of dirt approaching the plughole of a draining bath. The closer they get to the hole, the faster they spiral.
One of the mysterious things about Noel Coward, and one of the sure indications that he is a great writer, is that he constantly takes you by surprise.
The Vortex (1924) was the play that made his name and firmly established him as both a dramatist and an actor - he'd been at pains to ensure the play included ''a whacking good part'' for himself - and it was the roaring twenties equivalent of today's socalled in-yer-face theatre, the Shopping and F***ing of the jazz age.
Of all Noel Coward's plays The Vortex is the only one whose shock appeal has survived more or less intact.
Noel Coward's The Vortex is his darkest play: a remarkable combination of shallow and deep ... it's a drama that wipes the smile from its own face.

Descriere

In The Vortex, Coward explores the darker side of the Cocktail Party set. Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and shattered relationships are minutely observed in this disturbing, early piece from a playwright whose sharp eye was more usually turned towards the light.

Caracteristici

This edition was published to coincide with a major revival at Chichester's Festival Theatre in 2023

Notă biografică

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.