Be flippant
David Edgar
- 1956 and All That by Dan Reballato
Routledge, 265 pp, £40.00, February 1999, ISBN 0 415 18938 1 - Collected Plays: Six by Noël Coward
Methuen, 415 pp, £9.99, April 1999, ISBN 0 413 73410 2 - Collected Plays: Seven by Noël Coward
Methuen, 381 pp, £9.99, April 1999, ISBN 0 413 73400 5 - Collected Revue Sketches and Parodies by Noël Coward
Methuen, 282 pp, £9.99, April 1999, ISBN 0 413 73390 4 - Noël Coward: A Life in Quotes edited by Barry Day
Metro, 116 pp, £9.99, November 1999, ISBN 1 900512 84 X - Noël Coward: The Complete Lyrics edited by Barry Day
Methuen, 352 pp, £30.00, December 1998, ISBN 0 413 73230 4
In the film about Noël Coward that Adam Low made for Arena in 1998, there is a shot of Arnold Wesker watching a recording of a Royal Court fundraising gala in which Coward is marvellous but clearly miserable as the restaurant owner in an extract from Wesker’s The Kitchen. Less emblematic but equally germane is the story, told in Philip Hoare’s 1995 biography, of Coward’s visit to the Court to see David Storey’s grittily realistic Rugby League play The Changing Room. His attention having been drawn to the male genitalia on display in the bath scene, Coward remarked: ‘13 acorns are not worth the price of admission.’
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