Coward Plays

The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties. <br/><br/><i>Design for Living </i>is about a triangular alliance between two men and a woman based on friends of Coward's which he waited to write until she and he and I had arrived by different roads in our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all three play together with a more or less equal degree of success. <br/><br/><i>Cavalcade </i>was Coward's most ambitious stage project set during the Boer War which cost £30000 in its day and which includes scenes of the relief of the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age. <br/><br/><i>Conversation Piece</i> is a musical comedy that Noël wrote for the Parisian star Yvonne Printemps and includes the song I'll Follow My Secret Heart. <br/><br/>Also in the volume are three short plays from <i>Tonight at 8.30</i> including <i>Hands Across the Sea</i> a gentle satire of colonials and London Society; <i>Still Life</i> which became the film <i>Brief Encounter</i> and <i>Fumed Oak</i> a suburban comedy about a 'worm who turns'.