Plays: Vol 6 (Methuen World Classics): 6: Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude with Violin: v. 6

by Noel Coward (Author), Sheridan Morley (Introduction)

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $33.63

  Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward described Semi-Monde as his most daring play to date. In a chic Parisian hotel, a series of sexual pairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities and reconciliations: sexual deviance is undisguised...set in the bisexual 1920s, the play could easily be populated by characters of Coward's society . Point Valaine is the drama of a lurid episode of lust in the semi-tropics. unmistakably the work of a master of the stage (New York Times); South Sea Bubble which concerns the Governor's lady in the Isle of Samolo who plays with native fire, nearly gets her wings singed, bashes her native admirer with a bottle and at one of those Coward next-morning-at breakfast scenes slips her way out of the scrape with feline grace. (Manchester Guardian) whilst Nude With Violin is a witty comedy about art fraud.