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Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre
- ナレーター： Barry Day, Chukwudi Iwuji
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Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre
批評家のレビュー
“An illuminating collection of anecdotes, encomiums, and gripes.... Theater fans will savor this portrait of a confident artist ('I am probably the best comedian alive') whose wit wasn’t confined to the stage.... An entertaining peek behind the curtain at 60 years in the theater.” (Kirkus)
“Sparkling...Day’s selections showcase Coward’s dazzling prose, which is always lively, urbane, and stocked with well-aimed zingers.... Theater pros and fans alike will revel in Coward’s incisive, compulsively readable takes on showbiz.” (Publishers Weekly)
“[Coward’s] dual role — equal parts revolutionary and reactionary — is handsomely illuminated in Barry Day’s Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre.... Throughout, he addresses his subject with clear-eyed affection...compelling...a many-pieced mosaic of a man of many pieces.” (Brad Leithauser, Wall Street Journal)
あらすじ・解説
Noël Coward on theatre was as dazzling and entertaining as his masterful plays and lyrics. Here his ideas and opinions on the subject are brilliantly brought together in an extraordinary collection of commentary, lyrics, essays, and asides on everything having to do with the theatre and Coward's dazzling life in it.
The book Noël Coward wanted, promised, threatened to write - and never did.
Including essays, interviews, diary entries, verse, his views on his fellow playwrights: "My Colleague Will", Shaw, Wilde, Chekhov, Barrie, Maugham, Eliot, Osborne, Albee, Beckett, Miller, Williams, Rattigan, Pinter, and Shaffer.
Coward on the critics - many of whom irritated him over the years but came to admire him: James Agate, Alexander Woollcott, Graham Greene, Kenneth Tynan among them.
And on the plays he wrote, among them: The Vortex; Hay Fever; Private Lives; Design For Living; Blithe Spirit.
Here is the Master on the producers who crossed his path: André Charlot, C. B. Cochran, Binkie Beaumont. And the actors in the Coward galaxy: John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Gertrude Lawrence, the Lunts, etc....
His views on the art of acting: auditions, rehearsals, learning the lines, clarity of delivery, timing, control, range, stage fright, fans, theater audiences, revivals, comedy, "the Method", plays with a "message", taste, construction, "Star Quality", etc....
And last, but Noël Coward least, his experience in, and thoughts on: revue, cabaret, television, and musical theater, Bitter Sweet, Conversation Piece, Pacific 1860, After the Ball, Ace of Clubs, Sail Away, The Girl Who Came to Supper, Words and Music, This Year of Grace, London Calling!...and much more.
Ingeniously, deftly compiled, edited, and annotated by Barry Day, Coward authority and editor of The Noёl Coward Reader and The Letters of Noёl Coward.
Cover photograph: © 2021 The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC