Present Laughter
- Full Length Play, Comedy, 1940s / WWII
- 5M, 6F
- ISBN: 9780573013546
Coward's richly comic play about world-weary dilettante Garry Essendine, published to coincide with the National Theatre's production opening in September 2007.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: 1940s / WWII
- Target Audience: Adult, Senior
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Performance Group:
- Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student
Noël Coward's Present Laughter premiered in the early years of the Second World War just as the privileged lives were threatened with fundamental social change.
REVIEWS:
"Sharp, withering and funny."
The New York Times
"Sharpness and wit... in each succeeding act."
New York Post
Characters
- Casting: 5M, 6F
- Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
MISS ERIKSON
FRED
MONICA REED
GARRY ESSENDINE
LIZ ESSENDINE
ROLAND MAULE
MORRIS DIXON
HUGO LYPPIATT
JOANNA LYPPIATT
LADY SALTBURN
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At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. His line in harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanours is discovered. And all hell breaks loose. |
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